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    Understanding Recruitment (Grand Prize Winner, UK, 10 to 50 employees, 2018)

Understanding Recruitment (Grand Prize Winner, UK, 10 to 50 employees, 2018)

Understanding Recruitment

Understanding Recruitment knows how to keep its employees engaged. After all, this is now the third consecutive year that the St Albans-based staffing firm has been a grand prize winner in SIA’s Best Staffing Firms to Work For contest.

Understanding was founded in 2007 by duo Chris Jackson and Dale Swords, both of whom […]

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    Charlton Morris (Grand Prize Winner, UK, 51-plus employees, 2018)

Charlton Morris (Grand Prize Winner, UK, 51-plus employees, 2018)

And Benefits for All

Ambitions, backed by opportunity, lead to engaged workers

Keeping employees motivated is no small feat, especially in a competitive business such as recruitment. Charlton Morris relies on reinvesting back in the business to keep its staff engaged.

Charlton Morris, a recruitment firm founded in Leeds in 2013, recognizes that it takes more than […]

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    Fusion Medical Staffing (Grand Prize Winner, Best to Temp For, 2018)

Fusion Medical Staffing (Grand Prize Winner, Best to Temp For, 2018)

The Extra Mile

Personal service, staying in contact among ways to keep contingent workers engaged

Some common themes among travel healthcare workers when dealing with Omaha, Neb.-based Fusion Medical Staffing: friendliness, the company does what it says it will and recruiters keep in contact with personalized service. The praise added up for Fusion Medical Staffing, based on a survey […]

Akraya (Winner, 10 to 20 employees, 2018)

Akraya’s mission combines realizing potential while fulfilling purpose

When Amar Panchal and Sonu Ratra founded Akraya in 2001, they sought to create a place where employees could realize their potential while helping others accomplish their goals. Originally headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, though, Akraya had an uphill battle matching the lavish perks offered by […]

Winners, Best to Temp For, 2018

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    Lighthouse Management Group (Grand Prize Winner, 10-20 employees, 2017)

Lighthouse Management Group (Grand Prize Winner, 10-20 employees, 2017)

Control Your Destiny
Career opportunities boost employee performance

Many people believe that a company’s perks elevate it to being a best company to work for — the stocked beverage fridge, the game rooms, the trips, the in-house masseuse. Lighthouse Management Group CEO Song Woo strongly disagrees. While Lighthouse — which provides staffing in healthcare, accounting, finance […]

The Goal (Grand Prize Winner, 21-50 employees, 2017)

Coaching Up
A continuous learning environment fuels growth

When Mark Simons launched The Goal in 2002, he wanted to avoid the sink-or-swim new hire induction processes and high-pressure work environments that had become cultural norms throughout the IT staffing industry.

To create the type of supportive, continuous learning atmosphere that attracts high-potential talent and fosters their professional […]

Pacific Companies (Winner, Small, 21-50 employees, 2017)

Strong hiring, training and culture propel Pacific Companies on the list

There is a bell in the office of physician staffing firm Pacific Companies.

“Every time someone does a deal — making a placement or bringing in a new search — they ring the bell, and everyone comes and high-fives them,” says Gary L. Cook, president […]

ALKU (Grand Prize Winner, 51-200 employees, 2017)

The Golden Rule
Happy employees = higher performance = good service

What’s so powerful about being a great place to work? It’s about employee performance.

When employees are happy and proud about where they work, they simply perform at a higher level and provide better customers service, says Mark Eldridge, CEO of ALKU, an Andover, Mass.-based provider of […]

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    Aya Healthcare (Grand Prize Winner, 201-500 employees, 2017)

Aya Healthcare (Grand Prize Winner, 201-500 employees, 2017)

A Good Ear
Listening to employees, encouraging career growth

Aya Healthcare cares deeply about creating exceptional experiences for its employees and executes that vision by listening to its employees’ needs and goals.

Founded in 2001 by President and CEO Alan Braynin, Aya provides travel nursing and workforce solutions to hospitals. The company, headquartered in San Diego, Calif., […]

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