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Kelly Services

6Judge labels
0First choices
5Negative labels
5 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
3 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Kelly Services was named 3 times in Staffing agency tools, where Zoho Recruit led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In staffing agency tools · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Kelly Services for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Staffing agency platformsTalent acquisition0%104 of 13667%3under 10 labels · led by Zoho Recruit at 22%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Kelly Services yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Kelly Services across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast10001
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00011
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500011
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative6 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Stick to well-rated ones like Kelly Services or Frontline Source Group (high verified reviews).” Grok 4.1 Fast · Staffing agency tools · negative prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Has multiple complaints related to communication and service issues.” MiniMax M2.5 · Staffing agency tools · negative prompt · hard negative
“Robert Half / Kelly Services / Adecco: Often criticized for keeping resumes on file without follow-up” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Staffing agency tools · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Kelly Services, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Kelly Services was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Robert Half6 of 60Not among the top eight
Zoho Recruit3 of 61Not among the top eight
100Hires2 of 60Not among the top eight
Aerotek2 of 60Not among the top eight
Bullhorn2 of 60Not among the top eight
Teksystems2 of 60Not among the top eight
Upwork2 of 60Not among the top eight
Express Employment Professionals1 of 61Not among the top eight
Actalent1 of 60Not among the top eight
Adecco1 of 60Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Kelly Services. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 6 of the 6 answers that named Kelly Services and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

firsthr.app6
frontlinesourcegroup.com6
reddit.com5
peoplemanagingpeople.com4
bbb.org3
consumer.ftc.gov3
recruitcrm.io3
blog.9cv9.com2
capterra.com2
complaintsboard.com2

Thirty-six of the thirty-six domain citations in answers naming Kelly Services came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

What it publishes

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Addresses on kellyservices.com
559
subdomains included
Content
423
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog199212026-09-15Workforce planning, Employee engagement surv
News or press19152026-09-24
Case study2632026-08-17
Podcast or video302025-08-15
Glossary or explainer202026-05-05
Comparison102025-06-20
Template or tool102026-05-15
How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page kellyservices.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.

Follow Kelly Services

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Kelly Services is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Kelly delivers workforce solutions that drive high-impact results — from contingent staffing and MSP programs to RPO, SOW management, and specialized talent. 80 years powering the world's workforce.
For
organizations solving complex talent challenges
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Kelly Services's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: kellyservices.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Kelly Services's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Kelly Services, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Kelly Services by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Kelly Services is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Kelly Services, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
The subscriber app

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at kellyservices.com is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.