Small Business Today Magazine OCT 2014 THE EFFORT COMPANIES | Page 28

nies, they now provide HR functions for the public. They actually consider 2014 their official launch year. Before that time, they did a lot of testing assessing, mapping, and basically foundational development. Although they already had external clients and even though they weren’t marketing out to the public until this year, a lot of company contacts kept asking them, “Can you provide services to us as well since you are so innovative and doing so well for yourselves?” It was an eye opener and made them keenly aware that they needed to go out to market. The public truly needed the foundation and processes they had built and they knew they were sustainable and scalable. Vice President of the EFFORT Companies and head of Global Accounts, Gregory Grant shared, “The key to the success of EFFORT Staffing is our competency assessment and skill certification practices. EFFORT Staffing specializes in finding competent workers in the program and project management services, in IT, in several verticals such as Oil & Gas, Retail, Medical, Manufacturing, Technical, Engineering, and we do general staffing in all categories. We are trained, experienced, agile, and not predestined to follow the old rules in staffing. We are confident we have a real advantage in being able to make adjustments as we go and make things better and we know how to get things done! It’s in our peoples’ DNA. With everybody that we have, we are practicing continuous improvement and using developed processes and programs.” Whether people are referred or they come via headhunters, EFFORT takes them through their multiphase screening process. Before the prospective employee can even go to the client, they do multi-phone screen interviews and then videos and in-person interviews. The client can be an internal client such as another business unit; it could be another stakeholder in one of the EFFORT companies; it also could be the client. Many people do go directly to them looking for opportunities. In those cases, EFFORT Staffing personally represents that person in helping them find gainful employment that matches the job descriptions and all of the tools that they use to help their clients they use the same tools to help individual candidates. Based in Houston,Texas, EFFORT Staffing sources top talent to effectively support domestic and international operations. Over the years, they have worked in 49 different countries providing resources to their internal companies. They expanded to Austin and San Antonio with Dallas in their sites in August of this year 2014 and next will be expanding to Canada and Ireland, UK, The Netherlands to target support their client requirements and more of their European clients. After that, they are planning to move into Asia. . EFFORT Staffing never follows a cookie cutter approach. They have changed the paradigm enough to be noticed and to assure their clients reap the rewards of performance through excellence. They wont allow themselves to be just a body shop; they really match the right people to the right role. Also, they provide other services and solutions such as HR consulting and project services through their other firms. The single most important thing is assuring their people through their proprietary and automated EFFORT Assurance processes. They do quality checks on a weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly basis to make sure that every person they place on-site is the right person doing the right thing…and doing the right thing is what EFFORT Staffing is all about. For more information on how EFFORT Staffing can help you with your personal, professional, or corporate goals contact 281-810-8600 www.EFFORT Staffing.com They are always developing teamwork systems of quality and efficiency for their clients. Communications and teamwork deliver excellence! Photo by Gwen Juarez Photography 26 SMALL BUSINESS TODAY MAGAZINE [ OCTOBER 2014 ] email [email protected] or [email protected].