Mark Eldridge, CEO
“We don’t have a fridge full of beer. We don’t have a flexible work-from-home policy,” says CEO Mark Eldridge. Nor does ALKU have a game room or nap room. Instead, ALKU focuses on making sure employees know how they contribute to the company’s goals, growth and success. From the day they start, […]
Michael Winwood, CEO
“Our strategy begins with people and ends with people. We focus an insane amount of time on hiring great talent,” says CEO Michael Winwood. It’s what they call The Who, which is tied in with Optomi’s core values. The first, genuine and passionate, candidates need from the start. “You can’t teach that,” […]
Vito Scutero, CEO
Staffing is a cyclical business, and it’s important not to “take the highs too high or the lows too low,” says co-founder and CEO Vito Scutero. What helps is to listen to and pay attention to your staff to see what can be tweaked at any given time.
Take training, for example. Sometimes, a […]
Tom Gimbel, Founder and CEO
When you repeatedly get named a best place to work — and this is LaSalle’s fifth time on our list — you attract some people for the wrong reasons.
Many focus on the perks, but that’s not what makes LaSalle the best. It’s more than any trip, any incentive or any […]
Hiten Patel, CEO
The top large staffing firm to work each year since 2012, Collabera is not one to rest on its laurels. It’s a continuous process to keep improving, says co-founder and Chairman Hiten Patel.
A main areas of focus is on employee development, with each new hire getting a mentor, Patel says. In fact, […]
Jay Cohen, President and CEO
“Even if treating people well played no role as a competitive differentiator, it would still be our top priority,” says President and CEO Jay Cohen. “Ultimately it’s the right thing to do.” Fortunately, treating people well is good for business.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Signature is one of only three companies to […]
Ben Roth, Founder and CEO
Adam Roth, President and COO
Roth Staffing Companies has ranked as a finalist in the Best Staffing Firms to Work For competition each year since 2011 — it’s one of only three staffing firms to do so and the only large, commercial staffing firm to do so.
Founder and CEO Ben Roth […]
Kathy Perry, President
When Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012, one Favorite Healthcare Staffing employee’s home laid in its path. Water from the giant storm entered the worker’s residence, damaging numerous items — including a furnace, leaving the family without heat. And the large number of claims from the hard-hit area meant insurers were slow to […]
Janice Bryant-Howroyd, CEO
AppleOne Employment Services is part of the Act•1 Group, a family-owned company, and employees are treated as an extension of that family, says Act•1 Group CEO Janice Bryant-Howroyd. The company also aims to make sure its employees are free to think and work without walls.
“The tradition of going above and beyond for […]
Steve Amidei, Service Delivery Manager
Horror stories about temping via a staffing firm abound. However, it was an easy process from the get go for Steve Amidei. “My initial contact, Sara Riggs, got the ball rolling smoothly,” he says. She not only explained what the temp position represented, she also described the inner workings of […]
