Bengaluru, June 4 -- Staffing firms and job search platforms such as Quess Corp Ltd, TeamLease Services Ltd and Info Edge (India) Ltd are finding it more profitable to help place experienced professionals at tech centres of the world's biggest companies than pure-play information technology (IT) outsourcers that typically hire freshers in bulk.

Better profitability and revenue from global capability centres (GCCs) have helped the staffing firms offset slowdown in their income from the country's $283 billion IT sector, which has gone slow on hiring engineers in the past couple of years.

GCCs contributed about 4.2%, or Rs.153 crore, of Quess's January-March revenue. TeamLease, on the other hand, got Rs.95 crore, or about 3% of its revenue...