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The following top candidates are highly skilled, motivated, and ready to go to work for you:

CUSTOMER SERVICE, SALES & MANAGEMENT

Candidate Initials:  B. U.

Skills and Experience:  This candidate has excellent written, communication, leadership and problem solving skills, as well as 13+ years of experience in customer service, sales and management.  Worked as a failure analysis technician, evaluating electrical and mechanical characteristics of systems and/or integrated circuits or components to determine root of failure.  Also worked as customer service supervisor:  hiring, coaching and developing high performance sales and customer service staff.  Warehouse supervisory experience experience includes managing shipping, receiving and line support.

Education:  H. S. Diploma; Tech Skills of Sacramento: MCSA.

Desired Pay:  $11/hr.

To learn more about this candidate, please contact Katie in our Allentown office at Katie@berksandbeyond.com or call 610.435.9270.

OPERATIONS CLERK

Candidate Initials:  E. H.

Skills and Experience:  This candidate has 10 years of experience in the administrative, clerical, purchasing and procurement areas.  Skills include:  buying, reviewing materials lists, processing work orders, and overage, shortage and damage (OS & D) function.  Proficient in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Education/Training:  York College – Computer Science; Business Major.

Desired Pay:  $15/hr.

To learn more about this candidate, please contact Bonnetta in our York office at Bonnetta@berksandbeyond.com or call 717.843.0031.

HOUSEKEEPING

Candidate Initials:  P. G.

Skills and Experience:  Reliable, conscientious, responsible individual who can handle your company’s cleaning, janitorial and housekeeping projects.  With 15+ years experience, this candidate will make sure the job is done right.  Seeking employment within 1/2 hour of Harrisburg.

Desired Pay:  $8/hr.

To learn more about this candidate, please contact Carl or Audrey in our Harrisburg office at 717.737.5001 or e-mail Carl at Carl@berksandbeyond.com.

Expansion Means Better Service for Area Employers

Harrisburg, PA –Berks and Beyond Employment Services, Inc. will hold the Grand Opening of its sixth office on Wednesday, February 17, 2010.  Although the staffing and recruitment firm has served the Harrisburg market for over three years, the additional location will allow Berks & Beyond to provide expanded and more responsive service to area employers.

“We see the Harrisburg office as a natural extension for our business.  Over the past few years, we’ve watched the staffing and recruitment needs of the Harrisburg market evolve; this new location will help us better meet those needs,” states Chris Garner, President of Berks & Beyond.  “We are staffing the Harrisburg office with seasoned professionals, some of whom have over 25 years of staffing experience.  These veterans will help ensure we deliver exceptional employees and customer service from the day our new office opens its doors.”

Berks & Beyond’s sixth location is located at 1505 Market Street, Camp Hill, PA 17011.  Like the existing offices, the expansion location will provide clerical, industrial, managerial, and technical staff for temporary, temp-to-perm, and permanent placement services.

While Berks & Beyond currently provides staffing solutions to employers throughout much of Southern Pennsylvania, the Harrisburg office will broaden the company’s service area to include the following towns and cities:  Boiling Springs, Camp Hill, Carlisle, Colonial Park, Dauphin, Dillsburg, Enola, Harrisburg, Hershey, Highspire, Hummelstown, Lemoyne, Lewisberry, Marysville, Mechanicsburg, Middletown, Mt. Holly Springs, Newberrytown, New Cumberland, New Kingston, Shepherdstown, Shiremanstown, Steelton, and Wormleysburg.

Are you a temporary or contract employee?  Considering taking the plunge?  If so, here are a few key staffing statistics from the American Staffing Association you may find interesting:

• 2.66 million people are employed by staffing companies each day.
• 79% of staffing employees work full-time (virtually the same as the rest of the work force).
• 66% of staffing employees consider flexible work time important.
• 80% of staffing clients say staffing firms offer a good way to find people who can become permanent employees.
• 67% of staffing employees say that “choice of assignments” was an important factor in their job decision.
• 90% of staffing companies provide free training to their temporary and contract employees.
• 65% of staffing employees say they developed new or improved work skills while on assignment.

Want to learn more?

Visit the American Staffing Association’s website to learn more about the staffing industry, or for more employee staffing statistics.

What are your thoughts?

Flexibility.  Experience.  Choice of assignments.  Bridge to permanent employment.  These are just a few of the reasons millions of Americans – and thousands of Berks & Beyond employees - have chosen temporary and contract work.  What are the most important reasons to you?  Please leave your comments below, or contact us directly via our website.