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Top 25 Direct hire recruitment firms based in San Diego, United States

Name: Direct hire recruitment firms based in San Diego, United States
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 29, 2026 133 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 133 direct hire recruitment firms headquartered in San Diego, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,239 professional contacts across them, including 260 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (678 companies); San Diego has 133.

This list covers direct hire recruitment firms headquartered in San Diego, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 29, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 29, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

133Companies

2,239Contacts tracked

260Verified emails

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The 25 largest direct hire recruitment firms based in San Diego, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 133 direct hire recruitment firms based in San Diego, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 29, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to direct hire recruitment firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Eastridge Workforce Solutions	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	n/a	803 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Eastridge Workforce Solutions is a trusted staffing partner helping businesses build stronger, more productive teams across industrial and professional sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
2	Baronhr, LLC	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	10001+	364 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “As one of the nation's fastest growing staffing agencies, BaronHR servies individuals and businesses nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
3	Boutique Recruiting	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	51-200	201 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Boutique Recruiting, our national team specializes in placing top talent across a wide range of industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
4	Tristaff Group Of Companies, Division Of Amtec	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	51-200	95 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “TriStaff Group of Companies is a premier Full Service Staffing and Executive Search firm headquartered in San Diego, California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
5	Broekema Group	Strong evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	51-200	50 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Broekema Group, a subsidiary of On Call Staffing Solutions, Inc, is a privately held, woman-owned professional recruiting firm specializing in direct hire searches, predominantly…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
6	Talentzök	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	51-200	38 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The TalentZök family of companies, including Simply Biotech and Defense Search, are a premium specialized staffing group recognized by Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
7	Tucker Parker Smith Group TPS Group	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	51-200	28 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Tucker Parker Smith Group (TPS Group) is a professional recruiting and staffing firm connecting talented people with leading employers-from Fortune 500 companies to growing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
8	RPO International	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	24 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “RPO International focuses on serving the ever-evolving needs of the recruiting industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
9	Newport Williams	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	22 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Tenacious search specialists who are obsessed with finding the perfect candidates for our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
10	Aldebaran Recruiting	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	1-10	21 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Our proprietary headhunting methodology is designed to get you unprecedented access into the passive talent pool.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
11	A-Star Staffing	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	1-10	18 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A-Star Staffing has been in business since We are the warmer, friendlier alternative to the large national firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
12	SDI Staffing	Strong evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	51-200	15 contacts →
	Strong evidence “SDI Staffing specializes in placing candidates in Direct Hire, Temp-to-Hire and Temporary positions within the Insurance Industry throughout California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
13	Integrated Associates INC	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	51-200	11 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We’re sincere about developing strong relationships Since our inception, we’ve maintained an ongoing commitment to act as trusted partners to our clients and candidates because…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
14	Talentstarter	Strong evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	10 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We are people aficionados and take great pride in delivering direct-hire talent to global teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
15	Businesstaff	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	1-10	9 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “BusinesStaff is a leading staffing firm in Southern California and works on a National level.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
16	WRS Recruiting	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	1-10	9 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “WRS Recruiting delivers on target, streamlined recruiting solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
17	Express Employment Professionals SAN Diego	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Express Employment Professionals of San Diego is dedicated to providing quality staffing services and human resource solutions to businesses and job seekers in the San Diego-Mira…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
18	Promax Personnel LLC	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	201-500	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Promax Personnel is a staffing agency dedicated to matching businesses with the most suitable talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
19	M Squared Talent Solutions	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are convinced that great talent will transform your ideas into success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
20	HK Recruiting	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “HK Recruiting is a specialized recruiting partner to the biotech, life sciences, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
21	Industry	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Our team at Industry is revolutionizing the way people find jobs in the hospitality, retail, and grocery industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
22	VIA Technical NOW Eliassen Group	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “VIA Technical is now Eliassen Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
23	Redeployment	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Redeployment is defined as “the process of moving people to a different place or using them in a more effective way.” We are a recruiting and executive search firm that uses our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
24	Talent Source Staffing	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Talent Source is a Veteran-Owned staffing company based in San Diego, California, we connect people with businesses across all industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
25	ROW Recruiting	Partial evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Partial evidence “ROW Recruiting is a boutique recruiting firm with an focus on helping clients find and hire qualified Sales and Operations professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: direct hire recruitment firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names direct hire recruitment firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of direct hire recruitment firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name direct hire recruitment firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Direct hire recruitment firms based in San Diego, United States at a glance

As of Sep 29, 2026

11.6%Verified-email coverage

16.8Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

Sep 29, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

11-50

51-200

201-500

1,001-5,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Diego, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Diego, over 133 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among direct hire recruitment firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in San Diego, United States whose own description of what they do matches “direct hire recruitment firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names direct hire recruitment firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among direct hire recruitment firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Diego are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 260 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names direct hire recruitment firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many direct hire recruitment firms are there based in San Diego, United States?

RevenueBase identified 133 direct hire recruitment firms headquartered in San Diego, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Eastridge Workforce Solutions, headquartered in San Diego, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city in the United States has the most direct hire recruitment firms?

New York leads the United States with 678 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (363) and Atlanta (309). San Diego has 133.

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 260 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 133 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 29, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.