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searching for a job can be a difficult
task but Elwood staffing is making big
strides to provide more opportunities to
both jobseekers and companies seeking to
fill positions joining me today from
Elwood staffing our business development
manager beth abbott district manager
Laurie Wimmer and regional vice
president will white thank you all for
being here today thank you
ok so Laurie we're gonna start with you
tell us a little about Elwood staffing
and what services that you guys provide
well and what staffing is a family-owned
business based out of Columbus Indiana
and we have branches here local in the
Salem New River Valley and the Lynchburg
area as well so we provide temporary and
tiptoe higher staffing solutions for
local businesses ok so yeah a lot of
people and Beth I'll direct this
question to you a lot of people think
that the staffing industry is just for
temporary work is that true well we do
offer temporary work there are a lot of
opportunities for temporary to hire and
that's one of the points that I like to
share with a lot of businesses because
sometimes you're not sure exactly what
you need for a position or who would be
the right fit and we do all the
pre-screening and things like that for
the companies they do have a time period
with which we negotiate and they can
decide if they want to keep that
employee on their payroll or if they'd
like to go in another direction ok and
then let's talk about elements staffing
and what makes it unique from maybe
other agencies out there yeah I would
say Elwood Staffing's the 10th largest
light industrial staffer in the country
so we have the ability as a family-owned
company to work with local businesses
and customize our Human Resources
approach but we have the resources
nationwide to actually follow up on what
we say we're gonna do and get you the
folks that you need yeah all right so
let's talk about the people who are
looking for a job right now it's often
frustrating they don't hear anything
feels like they're just sending out
resumes so why should they choose Elwood
staffing and how can you help them well
I would say that for individuals that
are looking for work we have several
employers in Lynchburg Roanoke
Christiansburg there
looking for folks that I would say the
benefits that we have for temporary
associates just cuz you're a temporary
associate doesn't mean that you can't
have medical benefits dental vision we
offer some employee benefits where you
get about sixty percent off of local
attractions to ballgames and movie
tickets things of that nature so there's
a lot of resources for our temporary
associates and we can get them into a
position they can test it see if it's
going to be a good fit and if it's a
great fit they can more than likely get
hired on full-time yeah that's a good
point cuz yeah sometimes it is just like
a you know a testing ground you know for
both the employee and the employer you
know you don't want to get it into a
situation where you're gonna hate it in
six months right so that's that's a good
point
so do you know about jobs that maybe
it's not you know known in the area are
not advertised or you know the
interesting thing is a lot of our
employers are in business parks or
industrial parks right they that are not
on the side of the road they're not in a
retail space so you wouldn't drive by
and you know where they are and you
would have to do hours and hours of
research online to find if that's going
to be a good fit for you where we
already have the information on each
position so when an individual comes in
to work with us we find out their
background their interests what they
want to do the hours that they can work
and then we can match them up with the
employer because we've done all the
research already yeah that's nice okay
so if somebody is out there and wants to
contact you or a business wants to
contact you what's the best way I would
say our website is probably the easiest
location to find our information which
is wwl with staffing comm and then our
local office is also I'm located on
Electric Road and our telephone number
is four four four zero zero five zero
all right thank you so much you guys
appreciate it thank you thanks Danny