Start Your Own Staffing Service [Paperback]

Krista Thoren Turner (Author)

Book Description

Series: Start Your Own Staffing Service | Publication Date: September 24, 2004

Harnessing people power for profit

Staffing has become the second-fastest-growing industry in the United States, largely by serving a lean business world in which companies are forced to downsize and merge in order to stay competitive. The work still has to be done, but now outsourcing to staffing services, especially for specialized business and technical skills, covers it.

This hands-on guide, from Entrepreneur magazine's highly successful StartUp series, shows the budding entrepreneur how to set up and operate a firm that can supply person power for a narrow or broad range of business needs. Among other topics, Start Your Own Staffing Service covers:

Different types of staffing services and the markets they serve

Researching the market to find a lucrative niche

Determining the best financing, location, and business plan

Recruiting and retaining top-quality staffing personnel

Attracting and keeping high-value clients

Whether it serves a huge market, such as office and clerical personnel, or a niche market like engineering or medical specialties, a staffing service can be a real revenue producer for a savvy businessperson who is knowledgeable about matching people's skills with the needs of businesses.

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From the Back Cover

Wanted: Skills Moguls!

Would you like to be a mover and shaker in the fifth fastest growing industry in the country? If so, starting your own staffing service just might be the answer.

The new world economy is tough on job security. Hordes of skilled, experienced, motivated workers are flooding the marketing, looking for work. And lots of merged and downsized companies now outsource the work that used to be done by permanent employees. The bright side? It's a prime time for the staffing professional.

You can choose among a number of staffing service specialties, including:

• Facilities staffing--placing employees in long-term or indefinite-length assignments
• Industrial staffing--specializing in manual laborers, food handlers, cleaners, assemblers, drivers, tradespeople, machine operators, etc.
• Office/clerical staffing--focusing on secretaries, receptionists, administrative assistants, word processing and data entry operators, etc.
• Temporary staffing--supplying client companies with workers on a short-term basis
• Temp-to-perm staffing--offering clients a convenient way to try out temporary workers for permanent positions

Whatever your interest, Start Your Own Staffing Service is your key to becoming a skills gatekeeper. This book provides everything you need to know before joining this booming field, including how to recruit high-quality workers and high-value clients, which skills are most in demand, what successful entrepreneurs have to say about starting and running a staffing service, and much more.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Entrepreneur Press; 1 edition (September 24, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1891984837
• ISBN-13: 978-1891984839
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #408,718 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Kindergarten Level Info on the Business, March 27, 2006

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Experienced Recruiter (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Start Your Own Staffing Service (Paperback)

If you're going to invest a hundred thousand or so to start a staffing service (as stated in the book... but actually, you'd better be ready for lots more) then you're going to need A LOT more information than this kindergarten-level waste of paper provides.

In fact, you probably already know more about the staffing service than this book offers if you're just THINKING about starting a staffing firm.

A total waste.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bueno Maestro, February 2, 2007

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This review is from: Start Your Own Staffing Service (Paperback)

After reading and reviewing this book I felt relieved. It contained answers to questions I had, but over all its informing and straight to the point with details and advice. I would recomend it for any begging bussiness entrepreneur for a staffing service.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars READER, May 15, 2009

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Tonia Turner (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
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I was really pleased about this book, gave me a lot of information on how to start up. I would recommend this book to anyone seeking to start a staffing service themselves. It answers questions you may have or things you might not have thought about. This book is a very good read and a must buy.