The Select Family of Staffing Companies

Infobox_Company
company_name = The Select Family of Staffing Companies (Koosharem Corp.)
company_type = Private
foundation = 1985
location_city = Santa Barbara, CA
location_country = USA
industry = nationwide staffing, employee leasing, and workforce management
revenue = $1.4 billion for calendar year 2007
subsid = Select Staffing, Select Truckers Plus, Select Focus (PEO), Select Medical Staffing, TradeForce by Select Staffing, Remedy Intelligent Staffing, RemX Financial Staffing, RemX IT Staffing, RemX OfficeStaff, RemX Engineering, RemX Scientific, RemX Search & Placement, Project Solvers
homepage = [http://www.selectfamily.com/ www.selectfamily.com]

The purpose of The Select Family of Staffing Companies is to meet the rising needs within the workforce for more temporary and permanent staff. The Select Family has grown significantly into a nationwide Employment agency over the years and currently has more than 300 offices in 35 states around the country, with divisions that touch nearly every area of the workforce.

The Select Family's major divisions include Select Staffing (SelectRemedy in some markets), TradeForce by Select Staffing (construction and trade staffing), Remedy Intelligent Staffing, RemX Financial Staffing, RemX IT Staffing, RemX OfficeStaff, RemX Search & Placement, RemX Engineering, RemX Scientific, Select Truckers Plus, Select Focus (employee leasing), Project Solvers (design), and Select Medical Staffing. [http://www.selectfamily.com ]

In an average week, The Select Family’s divisions employ over 150,000 job seekers in assignments with their 7,000+ client companies [http://www.selectstaffing.com/SelectStaffing/main.cfm?nlvl1=4] in a wide variety of industries, including manufacturing, industrial, clerical, administrative, accounting, finance, information technology, life sciences, construction, trucking, health care, engineering, and professional services.

With annual revenue at $1.4 billion for 2007, The Select Family is ranked as the 11th-largest staffing firm in the United States [Largest Staffing Firms in U.S. – Staffing Industry Report, May 2008] and the 21st largest in the world. [World's Largest Staffing Companies – Staffing Industry Analysts, Inc., May 30, 2008] The company primarily serves clients in the areas of on-site services, risk management, human resources, training, and employment law.

elect Family History

Known originally as Select Personnel Services, Select Staffing opened its first office in Santa Barbara, California in 1985. In the 1990s, the company began an acquisitive growth strategy, purchasing an average of two competitors a year. Since 2000, The Select Family of Staffing Companies has expanded rapidly by buying or merging with well over 50 top staffing firms nationwide, including Checkmate Staffing, First Site Staffing, Staffing Services and Progressive Personnel Services [Crain's Detroit Business – May 6, 2006] , National Careers Corporation, PDQCareers.com and CT Engineering, Ablest Inc., [Reuters – April 4, 2007] and Tandem Staffing Solutions, [Yahoo! Finance – October 3, 2007] among others.

The company's largest acquisition to date was of RemedyTemp, Inc. in 2006. [Reuters – May 11, 2006] From this purchase, Select received multiple new divisions and entered into new niche markets, including Remedy Intelligent Staffing (franchise) and RemX Specialty Staffing (finance and accounting, IT, high-end clerical, scientific, fashion/design, and engineering). As a result, The Select Family of Staffing Companies was chosen as the umbrella name for all divisions. As the same time, Select Personnel Services was briefly renamed SelectRemedy (it retains the SelectRemedy name in certain markets), before changing its name to Select Staffing in 2007.

By early 2008, The Select Family continued to grow with the purchase of Resolve Staffing's assets. [Reuters – Jan 30, 2008] Through this acquisition, the company ventured into new industries to now include support for health care (Select Medical Staffing), trucking (Select Truckers Plus), fashion/design (Project Solvers), and employee leasing (Select Focus) for clients nationwide.

elect Family Divisions

elect Staffing

Originally called Select Personnel Services, Select acquired RemedyTemp, Inc. in 2006 and was renamed SelectRemedy briefly, before changing its name to Select Staffing in 2007. [http://www.selectstaffing.com/SelectStaffing/main.cfm?nlvl1=4&nlvl2=82&nlvl3=63&pg=] Since then, Select Staffing has grown through the acquisition of several recruiting agencies that focus on clerical and light-industrial personnel in a wide range of industries.

Workers must go through a five-step screening process that includes integrity screening, formal application, behavioral interview, reference checks and employment eligibility verification, and drug tests/background checks. Applicants must also undergo skill assessments focused on their area of interest, as well as safety procedures.

As a result of the 2007 acquisition of Tandem Staffing, Select Staffing formed TradeForce by Select Staffing division, which focuses primarily on construction and day labor positions. Select has offices nationwide, including locations in New York, Northern New Jersey, Cincinnati, greater Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Memphis, and Nashville, among many others.

elect Truckers Plus

Born out of The Select Family's buyout of Resolve Staffing's assets in early 2008, Select Truckers Plus, as it was renamed, specializes in driver leasing. Truckers Plus drivers must pass 11 Department of Transportation requirements and maintain current and valid driver qualifications. [http://www.truckersplus.com/drivers.html]

Select Truckers Plus has offices in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas and services clients nationwide.

elect Focus

Select Focus is the Professional Employer Organization (PEO) arm of The Select Family of Staffing Companies. It assists other businesses with the administration of their payroll, HR and Employee benefits, Workers' compensation and unemployment, insurance billing, and more. Select Focus, formerly known as ELS when under the Resolve Staffing umbrella, is based out of Shelby Township, Michigan.

elect Medical Staffing

Select Medical Staffing, formerly Resolve Staffing's Health Care Division, focuses primarily on travel and per diem nursing, as well as physician and allied health personnel placement.

TradeForce by Select Staffing

TradeForce by Select Staffing focuses on placing such tradespeople as plumbers, carpenters, painters, and the like in daily-dispatch positions. TradeForce has offices in Colorado and Florida.

Remedy Intelligent Staffing

Remedy Intelligent Staffing is The Select Family of Staffing Companies’ nationwide franchise network, [http://www.remedystaff.com/RemedyStaff/main.cfm?nlvl1=4] and has more than four decades of recruiting experience. Remedy uses what it calls the “Intelligent Fit” process that was formulated to include a client needs assessment, a skills and behavioral evaluation of the candidate, and finally, performance management to match job candidates with positions.

RemX Specialty Staffing

The RemX Specialty Staffing division is broken up into seven subdivisions and provides temporary and permanent placement solutions for accounting, financial, IT, administrative, fashion/design, biomedical, and engineering professionals. The RemX Verify service offers over 650 available skills assessments designed to match the skill sets of candidates specifically to the client’s needs. Meanwhile, RemXFactor offers performance management technology for long-term placements or full-time hires. RemX Specialty Staffing comprises the following divisions: RemX Financial Staffing, RemX IT Staffing, RemX OfficeStaff, RemX Engineering, RemX Scientific, Project Solvers, and RemX Search & Placement. Each division has offices in major markets across the United States.

*RemX Financial StaffingRemX Financial Staffing specializes in providing accounting and financial professionals on a project, temp-to-hire, direct-hire, or strategic partnership basis. Servicing clients nationwide, RemX has offices in major U.S. markets including Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Denver, Houston, Nashville, northern New Jersey, greater Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, and San Francisco.

*RemX IT StaffingRemX IT Staffing provides consultants spanning the information technology spectrum in such areas as application development, computer operations, software quality management, web development, database administration, business analysis, networking, technical writing, and help desk support. The division services clients nationally and has locations in Atlanta, Charlotte, the Dallas area, Nashville, greater Los Angeles, New York, the Philadelphia area, Phoenix, Richmond, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, and Woodbridge, New Jersey.

*RemX OfficeStaffRemX OfficeStaff is dedicated to placing high-end administrative personnel in full-time and temporary positions throughout the United States. RemX OfficeStaff provides staffing services for professional and executive management, sales and marketing, administrative support, customer service or call center, data entry, human resources, office services, and paralegal and legal support. The division services clients nationally and has locations in Atlanta, Charlotte, the Dallas area, Nashville, greater Los Angeles, New York, the Philadelphia area, Phoenix, Richmond, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, and Woodbridge, New Jersey.

*RemX EngineeringRemX Engineering places engineering personnel in full-time and temporary positions nationwide. The division services clients nationally and has locations in Pensacola and Richmond.

*RemX ScientificRemX Scientific places full-time and part-time contract workers in biomedical research, biopharmaceutical, life sciences, and other health industries. The division is primarily based out of Richmond, Virginia, RemX Scientific services clients nationwide.

*Project SolversProject Solvers, a division of RemX Specialty Staffing, matches freelance designer and fashion production workers with available positions. Formerly an offshoot of Resolve Staffing, Project Solvers is headquartered in New York City.

*RemX Search & PlacementRemX Search & Placement specializes in permanent staffing solutions for candidates across several disciplines, including professional and executive management, sales and marketing, administrative support, human resources, office services, finance and accounting, information technology, biotechnology, and engineering. A thorough screening and selection process is conducted to match candidates with appropriate client job openings. This division has offices nationwide, including locations in New York, northern New Jersey, Philadelphia, greater Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas, Charlotte, Memphis, Nashville, and Atlanta.

elect Family Management

*D. Stephen Sorensen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Select Family of Staffing Companies
*Paul J. Sorensen, President, Select Staffing
*Melissa J. Porter, Chief Sales Officer
*Mark R. McComb, Chief Operating Officer
*Richard K. Hulme, Chief Administrative Officer
*Gunnar Gooding, Sr. Vice President
*Irwin Much, President, Remedy Intelligent Staffing
*Fred R. Herbert, President, RemX Specialty Staffing
*Jeff R. Mitchell, Chief Financial Officer
*Laurie C. Maxwell, Vice President of Operations
*Fred O. Pachón, Vice President, Risk Management and Insurance; General Manager, TradeForce Division

Franchise Opportunities

Since the franchise program was launched in 1998, more than 100 entrepreneurs have been selected as Remedy Intelligent Staffing licensees. [http://www.remedyfranchise.com/faq.html]

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