Award-Winning Austin and National Direct Hire Staffing

Award-Winning Austin Staffing Agency


Need to hire experienced professionals? We can help.


For many employers it can be a prolonged, time intensive and demanding process to recruit the best talent on the market, in the Austin metro region and beyond. That is why Scion Staffing interviews, networks with, and recruits elite talent at the local, statewide and national level. We stand ready to connect you to the talent you need!

We provide exceptional professional staffing and recruiting for Texas-based and national corporations and nonprofits. Our established relationships and networks are expansive. As an award-winning firm with local and national offices, we stand ready to connect you to the professionals you need to hire quickly.

The secret to our success lies within our commitment to excellence. At Scion, we’re focused on providing you with incredible talent options that match your unique working requirements and culture. No preconceived notions- we connect you to the employees you need expediently and thoughtfully.

We lead contingent permanent searches within the following areas:

  • Executive Leadership – (CEO, SVP, VP, Directors)
  • Finance, Accounting, and Auditing – (Directors, Controllers, Managers, Consultants)
  • Marketing & Digital – (Online/Ecommerce, Supply Chain, and Print)
  • Creative & Design – (Producing, Product, Graphics, Production)
  • Sales & Business Development – (VP’s, Managers, Account Staff)
  • PR & Communications – (Writing, Editing & Management)
  • Operations – (COO, Director of Operations, and Operations Managers)
  • Human Resources – (VP’s, Directors, Managers, HRIS, Generalists)
  • Information Technology – (for Web, Mobile, Software, Networking, Engineering, Security, Big Data)
  • Legal – (Attorneys, Paralegals, Support Staff)
  • Healthcare & Medical – (All levels and roles)
  • Administrative – (Director to Support)
  • Other Specialties

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Contact Us

8120 Research Blvd Suite 105 #275

Austin, TX 78758

Voice: (512) 291-3199

Our Direct Hire Staffing Services include:

Candidate Pool Recruitment

Immediate access to our vast network of experienced candidates ready for direct placement in Texas and nationally. Our recruiters deliver personally vetted, pre-screened, and ready-to-hire staff. We utilize a variety of methods to attract a diverse pool of qualified applicants matching your specific needs. The foundation of Scion is rooted in the relationships we’ve mindfully cultivated with individuals, businesses, and organizations. We offer our clients unparalleled reach into national and local networks with over 14,000,000+ candidate options, and an expansive pool of private professionals that continues to grow each day.

Interview Coordination & Support

We team up with you to schedule interviews with the top candidates for each position. This gives you the opportunity to meet with each of our exceptional applicants and review their work history, experience, and passion for the opportunity to be on your team.

Hiring Support & Market Expertise 

As needed, we help present job offers, mediate offer negotiations, and counsel our clients and candidates to ensure the best chance for a successful hire. Though we cannot give legal advice, our recruiters stay up to date on employment law and current hiring trends and can suggest additional resources.

Networking & Search Leadership

Our pipeline is a proven pathway to get the word out properly about your opportunity with strong potential local and national candidates. As part of our service, we expediently network on your behalf, broadcast online postings, and social media recruiting.  From leveraging job fairs and universities to attending local and national talent conferences, meet-up groups, and LinkedIn events, our recruiters work the room so you don’t have to.  Our full-service firm is here to make the process of hiring the right professionals easy and smooth.

Reference Checks

All candidate scheduling and final reference checks are conducted in detail on your behalf. This includes contacting former employers, direct reports, and/or colleagues as needed to fully establish candidate credibility.

A Solid Guarantee

We offer a concrete service guarantee and a complete commitment to excellence and search confidentiality. Our valued clients are serviced and represented in a highly personal, ethical, professional, and effective manner. We back all of our professional direct-hire search service guarantee.  We do this because we are confident in the extraordinary quality of our searches and the talented candidates that we select to represent.

Professional Candidate Skill Evaluations

We conduct skill assessments based on the job requirements and your requests, such as skills testing, behavioral questioning, and situational interviews.

Work Eligibility and Background Checking

We ensure each applicant is eligible to work and are ready to conduct background checks that are tailored to the needs of your particular job.

Best in Class Service 

Less than 1%  of all staffing firms in the U.S. were listed on the 2list of Best Executive Recruiting Firms in the World by Forbes. Scion is honored to have earned this ranking among the very best of these firms. We stand ready to connect you to the talent you seek, from the front desk to the CEO’s office.

Our Commitment

We stand ready to deliver the talent you need to keep your business operating smoothly and at max capacity. To request more information about our contingent search services, please request staff.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

How does an Austin staffing agency streamline permanent direct-hire placement for local employers?

As a premier Austin staffing agency, Scion eliminates the administrative friction and financial risk associated with internal corporate hiring. Our dedicated permanent placement division manages the entire recruitment pipeline on behalf of your business, which includes sourcing passive candidates, performing deep skill verifications, conducting initial interviews, and facilitating background checks. By presenting only a highly curated shortlist of exceptional candidates who match your technical specifications and corporate ecosystem, we significantly reduce your internal time-to-hire metrics.

What industries and business sectors does your Austin staffing agency serve?

Our recruitment footprint spans the entire Austin metropolitan business economy, providing expert direct-hire sourcing across seven specialized divisions. We regularly deliver permanent professional talent for high-tech startups, corporate operations hubs, legal practices, finance and accounting firms, medical organizations, and local nonprofit foundations. Whether your company is scaling a campus near The Domain or filling a critical back-office vacancy in Downtown Austin, our regional industry division recruiters have established pipelines ready to deploy.

What is a contingency search model and how does it benefit employers?

Our direct-hire contingency search model is an entirely performance-driven recruitment strategy designed to eliminate upfront financial risk for employers. Under this structural arrangement, your organization incurs absolutely no cost or placement fees until we successfully identify, vet, and place a candidate who is officially hired by your company. This model ensures that our recruiters remain fully incentivized and aligned with your organizational goals to secure the absolute highest caliber of talent available in the Central Texas market.

How does your agency identify and engage passive professional talent in Central Texas?

We do not rely on standard public job boards, which often yield over-saturated and under-qualified applicant pools. Instead, our local recruitment experts leverage an expansive, hyper-localized candidate community built over two decades alongside a private national database containing more than sixteen million professionals. This deep network allows us to actively headhunt elite, passive talent who are not actively seeking employment but are highly receptive to the right strategic corporate opportunity within the Austin market.

Does your direct hire agreement include a retention or placement guarantee?

Yes, every permanent direct-hire placement we execute is backed by a comprehensive professional performance and retention guarantee. We are highly confident in our rigorous vetting methodology, but if a placed professional separates from your company within the agreed-upon introductory period, our team will immediately launch a prioritized replacement search to fill the vacancy at no additional cost to your organization, completely safeguarding your talent investment.