Better Company Type filtering
Co-Founder at TheirStack
The Company Type filter now does a better job of keeping staffing, recruiting, and other hiring intermediaries out of your Company Search results when you select Direct Employer.
That matters because many searches are meant to find final customers, not companies selling staffing or recruiting services. If you are looking for companies hiring data engineers, you usually want the employer building the data team, not an agency posting jobs for someone else. If you are looking for companies using Kubernetes, Salesforce, or Snowflake, a technology mentioned by an intermediary in a job post does not necessarily mean the intermediary uses that technology.
With this update, selecting Company Type → Direct Employer removes more of that intermediary noise from company searches, hiring-intent searches, technographic searches, exports, and API results.
Some recruiting firms were previously listed under broader industries like IT Services and IT Consulting, Business Consulting and Services, Software Development, or Hospitals and Health Care. They could still appear in Direct Employer searches even when their descriptions clearly said they offered staffing, recruitment, executive search, or talent placement services.
We now classify more of those companies as recruiting agencies, including companies that describe those services in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Romanian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Turkish, Korean, Arabic, Afrikaans, Japanese, and Hebrew.
Examples of companies this catches:
| Company | Previous industry | Matched phrase |
|---|---|---|
| 1000 Farmers | IT Services and IT Consulting | Staff Augmentation |
| 5 Star HR | Not set | Empresa de reclutamiento |
| 2G Gente & Gestão | Professional Training and Coaching | recrutamento e seleção |
| 111 CONSEILS | Not set | cabinet de recrutement |
| 1a-Ärztevermittlung | Not set | Personalvermittlung |
| 24/7 Drive | Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage | uitzendbureau |
| ARTTIME - agencja pracy | Temporary Help Services | agencja pracy |
| FörsäkringsTalanger | Insurance | rekryteringsföretag |
| Altid Vikar | Temporary Help Services | vikarbureau |
| Drift Sør | Oil and Gas | Bemanningsbyrå |
| Econia Oy | Not set | Henkilöstövuokraus |
| 에이치알그룹 | Not set | 헤드헌팅 |
| El Maaly Group For Recruitment | Not set | شركة توظيف |
| Cape Human Capital | Not set | werwingsagentskap |
| MWH HR Products株式会社 | Not set | 人材紹介 |
| אורפלי ייעוץ | Not set | חברת השמה |
| Actalent | Business Consulting and Services | talent solutions |
In production impact checks, this found 30,846 companies that were previously not marked as recruiting agencies.
Note: we are not changing the company's source industry. If a company is listed as IT Services and IT Consulting on LinkedIn or another source, we keep that industry as-is. This means you can still inspect the original industry, and to exclude third-party staffing and recruiting firms, use our Company Type → Direct Employer filter.
Use it in Company Search by selecting Company Type → Direct Employer.