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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Robert Half

12Judge labels

0First choices

11Negative labels

7 / 14Models named it

2Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Robert Half was named 7 times in Staffing agency tools and 1 other category, 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.

Small business92 of 92

under the label threshold

Mid-market136 of 136

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 Robert Half 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Staffing agency platforms	Talent acquisition	0%	136 of 136	100%	6	under 10 labels · led by Zoho Recruit at 22%
Compensation benchmarking data	Compensation and total rewards	0%	74 of 148	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Pave at 19%	▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Robert Half 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 Robert Half across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	2
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

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

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative10 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Look into specific industry guides like Robert Half (for Admin/Tech/Sales)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · paraphrase prompt · alternative

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.

“Frequently mentioned in complaints citing misleading job listings, poor communication from recruiters, and lack of follow-up after interviews.” MiniMax M2.5 · Staffing agency tools · negative prompt · hard negative

“Poor communication, misleading job listings, rigid contracts favoring agency” Kimi K2 · Staffing agency tools · negative prompt · hard negative

“Numerous complaints about poor communication and ghosting” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Staffing agency tools · negative prompt · hard negative

“Robert Half / Kelly Services / Adecco: Often criticized for keeping resumes on file without follow-up ("resume hoarding") and slow response times” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Staffing agency tools · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Robert Half, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Robert Half was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Kelly Services6 of 121Not among the top eight

Teksystems5 of 120Not among the top eight

Zoho Recruit3 of 121Not among the top eight

Indeed3 of 120Not among the top eight

Instawork3 of 120Not among the top eight

Upwork3 of 120Not among the top eight

ZipRecruiter3 of 120Not among the top eight

Payscale2 of 122Not among the top eight

Express Employment Professionals2 of 121Not among the top eight

100Hires2 of 120Not 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 Robert Half. 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 11 of the 12 answers that named Robert Half and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com10

frontlinesourcegroup.com9

consumer.ftc.gov6

firsthr.app6

peoplemanagingpeople.com4

recruitcrm.io4

bbb.org3

consumeraffairs.com3

g2.com3

gem.com3

Fifty-one of the fifty-one domain citations in answers naming Robert Half came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

firsthr.app/compare/hiring/staffing-agency-software6

consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams5

reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/rwsk9z/list_of_recruiting_companies_to_stay_away_from5

frontlinesourcegroup.com/blog-how-to-know-if-a-staffing-agency-is-reputable-11-checks.html4

frontlinesourcegroup.com/blog-staffing-agency-red-flags.html4

peoplemanagingpeople.com/services/staffing-agencies4

recruitcrm.io/blogs/recruitment-scams4

g2.com/categories/staffing-agencies3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

roberthalf.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Robert Half takes 0% of first choices and Zoho Recruit takes 22%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “staffing agency platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “staffing agency platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 165,000 a month (“robert half”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 4,505 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 2,107,391 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 119,693 · 13,038 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 28,949
Paid Google search: 128 searches its ads show for, about 1,841 clicks and $7,348 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 120 text · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown December 2021, as Robert Half International Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 62 in the year, 58 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 136 of 136 in staffing agency tools

Segment leader

22%

Zoho Recruit

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 12 answers
Its own site cited: in 11 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on roberthalf.com

33,751

subdomains included

Content

2,240

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

4 · 2

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	1,289	49	2026-09-25	Succession planning, Employee onboarding
Report or ebook	709	28	2026-09-24	Workforce planning
News or press	192	3	2026-08-03
Case study	12	undated
Conference or event	11	1	2026-08-31
Glossary or explainer	11	undated
Comparison	6	0	2026-06-16
Template or tool	6	0	2025-12-01
Webinar or virtual event	3	undated
Podcast or video	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-25How to hire and what to pay customer service representatives blog
2026-09-24How to build a tech team that can deliver on digital transformation strategy blog
2026-09-24Meeting the 2025 standards for internal audit report or ebook
2026-09-23Hospital and health system boards blog
2026-09-18Common resume mistakes blog
2026-09-18Job seeking these sectors are hiring now blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page roberthalf.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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Follow Robert Half

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

Robert Half is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Staffing, Recruitment & Job Search
roberthalf.com
For: employers & job seekers
roberthalf.com
Price stated: 170000 - 218000 USD / Yearly roberthalf.com/us/en/job/lehi-ut/platform-engineer/04820-0013426401-usen
Starting price: 170000 roberthalf.com/us/en/job/lehi-ut/platform-engineer/04820-0013426401-usen
Not stated on the pages read: Free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Robert Half's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: roberthalf.com, roberthalf.com/us/en/job/akron-oh/pricing-analyst/03340-0013513120-usen, roberthalf.com/us/en/jobs/all/compliance, roberthalf.com/us/en/job/lehi-ut/platform-engineer/04820-0013426401-usen, roberthalf.com/us/en/insights/case-studies. 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 Robert Half'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 Robert Half, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where Robert Half 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 Robert Half, 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.