# Why are staffing agencies primarily staffed by attractive young women?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-staffing-agencies-primarily-staffed-by-attractive-young-women/425812>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 9, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-staffing-agencies-primarily-staffed-by-attractive-young-women/425812 "2007-11-09T18:05:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-staffing-agencies-primarily-staffed-by-attractive-young-women/425812/21 "2007-11-11T17:44:58Z")

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This may or may not count as a valid data point, but I can tell you that nerd-related temp agencies (e.g. for software testers and engineers) do **not** skew towards the attractive. 😃

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**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-staffing-agencies-primarily-staffed-by-attractive-young-women/425812/22 "2007-11-11T18:16:11Z")

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Another data point: the recruitors and intermediates at Dutch temp agencies also answer to the OP’s desciption. They are young, cheerful, outgoing, goalgetting, almost bossy girls.

Being female, I can’t really say if they are more attractive then average, but it may very well be.

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