TalentID Group

What TalentID Group does

TalentID Group is a privately held, founder-led staffing, placement, and talent consulting firm headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, focused exclusively on digital marketing and emerging technology roles. The firm was established by Owner & President Jen Wells to serve two customer segments: companies building digital marketing and emerging technology teams, and professionals in those fields seeking permanent, contract, or freelance work. Its service portfolio covers the full talent lifecycle — "Attract, Hire, Onboard, and Engage" — and is organized around Find Jobs (career matching for job seekers), Find Talent (recruitment on contingent, retained, or customized agreements), Staff Augmentation (project-based placements), Talent Consulting (hiring/retention process design), and tiered Outplacement Services ($1,499-$2,999 per 3-month program). A specialized Data Analytics Support line is delivered in partnership with Futurety under a proprietary 80/20 model in which consultants work 80% on client sites and 20% in TalentID offices for mentorship. The firm also publishes free content resources — ATS-friendly resume templates, a resume analyzer tool, cost-of-living calculators, a 90-Day Onboarding Guide, and a D&I hiring guide — and runs a Refer-a-Friend program ($2,500 per successful 90-day-retained hire) and free Thursday office hours as lead-generation channels.

The underlying technology is minimal: there is no productized platform, API, or software offering. The "technology" footprint consists of lightweight web tools (resume analyzer, downloadable templates) and standard CRM/ATS-adjacent workflows typical of a boutique recruiting firm. The firm is WBENC-certified as a Women's Business Enterprise, allowing it to be counted toward client diversity supplier mandates. It is a bootstrapped, non-VC-backed entity (1-10 employees, no disclosed funding, no parent company, and no M&A activity), with a single physical office and a self-described national reach concentrated in the Midwest.

TalentID generates revenue through four professional-services streams: (1) placement fees for permanent hires, (2) staff augmentation billings for short- and long-term contract consultants, (3) fixed-fee outplacement programs sold to employers managing transitions, and (4) referral fees ($2,500+) for referred candidates who remain in role 90+ days. Go-to-market is direct and sales-led: inbound via the website/contact form and content marketing, free 15-minute Thursday office hours as a top-of-funnel mechanism, and relationship-driven outreach leveraging the founder's 15+ years of industry experience. Job seekers and employers are addressed in parallel through a horizontal segmentation, with no disclosed enterprise concentration data and no publicly disclosed revenue or headcount figures.

Name

TalentID Group

Legal name

Talent ID Group

Website

https://talentidgroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

TalentID Group is a Columbus, Ohio-based staffing, recruiting, and talent consulting firm focused on digital marketing and emerging technology roles, serving both employers seeking to build teams and job seekers in those fields across the U.S.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Staffing Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPACADAA

IT & Software Engineering Staffing

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/Professional & Technical Staffing (IT/Engineering/Healthcare/Finance)

SECONDARYBPACAPAD

Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS)

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/Human Capital Management (HCM) & HR Tech

SECONDARYBPAHAGAA

Talent Management & Workforce Planning Consulting

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Human Capital & Organizational Consulting

Keywords

• Digital marketing staffing
• Emerging technology recruiting
• Talent consulting services
• Staff augmentation solutions
• Outplacement career services

Headquarters

HQ city

Columbus

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Staffing and Placement Services: Placement fees for placing candidates in permanent positions, and fees for staff augmentation services where they recruit and manage administrative aspects of short-term or long-term employment for clients.
2. Consulting Services: Consulting engagements focused on attracting, hiring, onboarding, and engaging talent. Includes outplacement services with tiered pricing based on experience level.
3. Referral Program: Referral fees paid when referred candidates are hired and stay in the role for a minimum of 90 days ($2,500 and sometimes more for higher priority roles).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

TalentID Group is a staffing, placement, and consulting firm that connects companies with digital marketing and emerging technology professionals. It delivers permanent placement, staff augmentation, outplacement, and talent consulting services, supplemented by free job-seeker and employer resource tools. Operations are centered in Columbus, Ohio with nationwide reach.

Product overview

TalentID Group operates as a staffing, placement, and consulting firm offering a unified portfolio of talent acquisition and career services. The core offerings include Find Jobs (career matching for job seekers) and Find Talent (recruitment services for employers), supplemented by Staff Augmentation for project-based staffing and Data Analytics Support (a specialized service delivered in partnership with Futurety). The consulting practice provides Talent Consulting and Outplacement Services. Additionally, the company offers free resource tools including Resume Templates, a Resume Analyzer Tool, Cost of Living Calculators, a 90-Day Guide to Onboarding Success, and a Diversity & Inclusion hiring guide. The company focuses exclusively on the digital marketing and emerging technology sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Find Jobs
• Find Talent Staffing and recruitment service that helps companies identify, source, qualify, and hire talent for digital marketing and emerging technology positions, executed on contingent, retained, or customized agreements.
• Staff Augmentation Project-based staffing service that places highly skilled digital marketing and emerging technology professionals into short-term projects or overflow work without long-term commitments.
• Data Analytics Support Specialized data analytics staffing service delivered in partnership with Futurety, covering data engineering, data visualization, and data insights on platforms including Google Analytics, Tableau, Microsoft BI, and Python, using the proprietary 80/20 consultant model.
• Talent Consulting Consulting service that develops strategies and tactics for attracting, hiring, onboarding, and engaging talent, using a formula-based approach intended to increase revenues and reduce turnover.
• Outplacement Services Career transition support for employees affected by layoffs or job changes, delivered in three 3-month tiered programs (Entry Level $1,499, Mid Level $1,999, Executive $2,999) covering resume development, LinkedIn profile optimization, job search strategy, interview preparation, skills assessment, and network development.

Quantifiable outcome

• 69% of employees more likely to stay at company for at least 3 years when they have great onboarding experience (O.C. Tanner research cited on website)
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• FuturetycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTalentID and Futurety have joined forces to provide world-class data analytics support for marketing and technology teams. TalentID recruits and manages data analytics consultants while Futurety provides analytics expertise and platform support. Consultants work 80% on-site for clients and 20% in TalentID offices for mentorship, combining recruiting strength with analytics specialization.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• CyberCoders: Tech and digital marketing recruitment firm placing professionals across software, marketing, and emerging tech. Comparable size and niche focus, competing head-to-head for marketing and tech direct-hire placements.
• Mondo: Specialized staffing firm focused exclusively on digital, marketing, and technology roles. Directly comparable to TalentID's niche in digital marketing and emerging technology placements, operating as a direct competitor for marketing/tech candidate searches.
• 24 Seven Talent: Creative, marketing, and digital talent staffing and recruitment firm. Directly comparable service portfolio covering contract, freelance and full-time placements in digital marketing and emerging technology.
• Aquent: Global staffing firm specializing in marketing, creative, and digital talent. Overlaps with TalentID's employer-facing placement and staff augmentation services for marketing roles and competes for the same mid-market digital marketing hires.
• Creative Circle: Creative, marketing, and digital talent staffing agency. Comparable in its focus on placing marketing, content, and digital professionals into contract and permanent roles, competing with TalentID's Find Talent service.
• MarketPro: Specialized marketing staffing and recruiting firm focused on digital, brand, and e-commerce marketing talent. Overlaps with TalentID's employer-side Find Talent and Staff Augmentation offerings in the digital marketing category.

Broad incumbents

• Insight Global: Large-scale IT, engineering, and professional staffing firm. Competes for the same emerging technology placements and offers more enterprise-scale RPO and managed staffing capabilities than TalentID.
• TEKsystems: IT staffing and services arm of Allegis Group. Competes for technology talent placements across consulting, contract, and direct-hire arrangements, including data and analytics roles overlapping TalentID's Futurety partnership offering.
• Robert Half: Largest publicly traded staffing firm in the US with dedicated marketing & creative and technology divisions. Provides indirect competition through broader portfolios and brand recognition that TalentID must out-position on niche expertise.

Regional players

• The Agency (digital marketing recruiting): Boutique digital marketing and advertising recruitment firm operating primarily in the Western US. Similar boutique positioning and digital-marketing niche focus to TalentID, with comparable service offerings but regional rather than Midwest focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/talentidgroup
• Facebookfacebook.com/TalentIDGroup
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/talentid-group

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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