Wath chose Santa Clara-based TekEdge Corp., which doesn't like the term bodyshop, based on friends' recommendations. This year, the firm predicts it will sponsor 1,000 recruits, with about 475 from India and the rest from the U.S., Canada and Britain. They're full-time employees of the bodyshop, hired out to clients like Cisco on demand. The bodyshop charges corporate clients an hourly rate, either for individual workers or teams, to shepherd technology projects that range from software databases to systems integration to Web applications. The industry varies widely.
Many firms collect headhunting fees from corporate clients that hire recruits as employees.