David Folwell, founder of Staffing Referrals, shares why Avionté is one of their most strategic and forward-looking partners. From shared client success to a strong alignment around growth, Avionté’s vision and responsiveness make a meaningful impact.
Hear how one staffing agency increased revenue by 9% despite an 8% drop in placements—by leaning into referral-based hiring and a tech stack designed for long-term success. For firms evaluating their technology partners, this is a clear example of how collaboration and innovation drive measurable results.
“We’ve been partnered with Avionté for five years. It’s one of our deeper and better integrations. They’ve been able to build some element of the integration that other ATSs simply don’t have.”
David FolwellFounder & President, Staffing Referrals
I own Staffing Referrals, which is a platform that helps automate, track, and scale the referral programs for staffing firms.
We’ve been partnered with Avionté for, I think, about five years now. It’s one of our deeper and better partners and integrations. They’re responsive. They care about their customers, and they care about the relationship, and they’ve been able to build some element of the integration that other ATSs simply don’t have.
So there’s shared customers of ours with Avionté that have found that even in a down year, they can still have their revenue grow. So we had a customer that they had eight percent fewer placements last year, but their top line revenue was up nine percent, And that’s because they shifted their hires from Indeed over to Referrals, and Referrals just stay on contract longer because they’re going to work with a friend.
If you’re a staffing agency looking at what ATS software to buy, it’s critical that you look at where’s the future of that software, and do they understand the needs of the market and understand where the market’s going. You can tell that the team has that strategic vision, they know where they’re going, and they’re aligned with what the future of staffing looks like.
They are focused not only on, hey, can we build good software for staffing agencies, but can we partner with our customers to make sure that they’re able to grow their businesses? Because when they grow, we grow, and we all win together. And I think that’s the right mindset to have from an ATS, and I think that they’ve got a very forward-looking approach to this.
