David runs every Beacon search personally, focused on permanent engineering leadership and specialist hires.
Both put engineers in front of you. They solve genuinely different problems, and picking the wrong one costs you either a permanent hire who leaves in six months, or a contractor relationship for a role that needed a long-term owner.
Which one you needFast turnaround, often contract or contract-to-hire, built for capacity gaps and short-term project needs. Less emphasis on long-term culture and leadership fit.
Slower by design, built to evaluate real technical depth and long-term fit for a role someone will own for years, not months.
If you need capacity right now for a defined project, a staffing firm can move faster and is built for exactly that. If you're hiring someone who will own a system, a team, or a technical direction for years, that's a recruiting problem, not a staffing problem, and it's worth the extra time to get right.
Staffing answers "who can start Monday." Recruiting answers "who should still be here in three years." Those are different questions with different processes behind them.
David runs every Beacon search personally, focused on permanent engineering leadership and specialist hires.
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