Twenty years is a long time, but it goes by kinda fast when you're making a lot of money. That's what happened with Cindy Pasky and the firm she founded two decades ago - Strategic Staffing Solutions.
The Detroit-based firm just clocked its 20th straight year of growth, hitting $168 million in revenue in 2009 compared to $160 million in 2008. It also added a couple hundred jobs to its staff of 1,700 employees and the occasional cadre of interns worldwide. It employs between 400-500 people in Detroit.
"We stay true to our firm and our mission," says Pasky, president and CEO of Strategic Staffing Solutions. "We take a very old fashioned approach to our customer relations. We are prudent and ethical and we always outwork our competition."
The firm expanded its call center and created an IT development center in Detroit in 2009. It is looking at growing primarily by offering more services to its existing clients and markets. It is also considering an expansion into the Phoenix market this year, at the request of a client.
"We'll go where our customers go," Pasky says.
These expansions have laid the ground work for Strategic Staffing Solutions to continue its revenue and employment growth for the foreseeable future. The company hopes to continue hiring in 2010.
Strategic Staffing Solutions services a number of industries. The financial services sector accounts for more than half of the company's annual revenue in 2009. Other sectors that make up a significant part of the firm's customer base include energy, healthcare and insurance, and government.
Source: Cindy Pasky, president and CEO of Strategic Staffing Solutions
Writer: Jon Zemke
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