Specialized desks, built to move.
Technology, engineering, finance and accounting, and other specialized professional recruiting. High-skill roles, long client relationships, and a mix of contract and direct hire that most generic ATS configurations handle badly.
Where we focus
What actually slows professional desks down.
Skill-based search that works
Professional desks win on who you can find in ten minutes. Parsing, skill extraction, and search have to be part of the platform, not a bolt-on nobody opens.
Contract and perm in one org
Different stages, different economics, different metrics — one candidate and client record. We separate the process without fragmenting the data.
BD that ties to delivery
Account managers and recruiters working the same accounts from the same record, with visibility into what's actually been submitted and why it stalled.
Margin and productivity clarity
Spread, fill rate, submission-to-interview, and recruiter productivity reported consistently — instead of three versions of the truth in three spreadsheets.
Sub-verticals under this umbrella
Same platform patterns, different desks.
Technology / IT
Skill taxonomies, rate cards, subcontractors, and fast-moving contract pipelines.
Engineering & technical
Clearance, certification, and project-based hiring tied to client programs.
Finance & accounting
Interim and permanent placement with tight credential and reference workflows.
Specialized professional
Legal, marketing, HR, and niche desks that need their own screening criteria.
Helpstone in practice
Professional staffing firms already work with us.
These are professional and technical staffing firms that work with Helpstone. Their logos sit on our client wall with their permission.
We don't publish engagement details, metrics, or client stories unless the client has approved them, so this page describes the work rather than a case study. Ask us on a call and we'll go deeper on what's relevant to your desk.
Eliassen Group
Piper Companies
Yoh
Black Diamond NetworksFAQ
What professional staffing leaders ask us first.
- Do you cover IT and engineering staffing?
- Yes. We treat technology, engineering, and finance & accounting as sub-verticals of professional staffing — the desks differ, but the platform patterns are the same: skill-based search, submission quality, and contract/perm split.
- Can Salesforce handle both contract and direct hire?
- It can, and it should. The mistake we see most often is a single pipeline forced to serve both. We separate the stages and the metrics without splitting the data.
- What about resume search and parsing?
- Professional desks live in search. We wire parsing, skill extraction, and search tooling into the ATS so recruiters stop keeping a private spreadsheet of candidates.
- How do you handle redeployment on contract desks?
- Assignment end dates should drive work, not surprise you. We build availability and redeployment signals into recruiter home pages.
Give your recruiters a platform they don't work around.
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