Express Employment Professionals: The Company Behind the Name II

The next several Express blog entries will be about our company, our values and services to give our followers a better understanding of who we are and what we stand for. Next is a timeline of important company milestones.

2008 Celebrating 25 years of success with a new name – Express Employment Professionals.

2007 Reached nearly $2 billion in sales; 600th office awarded.

2006 Reached $1.8 billion in sales; 85 franchises awarded.

2005 Reached $1.55 billion in sales; awarded 62 franchises.

2004 Reached $1.3 billion in sales.

2003 Reached $1 billion in sales with offices in the United States, Canada, South Africa and Australia.

2001 Reached $781 million in sales.

1997 Reached $698.6 million in sales.

1995 Operated nearly 200 franchises and reached $531.8 million in sales.

1993 Express Personnel Services reached $324.2 million in sales.

1991 Reached $197.2 million in sales.

1990 Funk and Stoller purchased Gray’s shares of the company.

1989 Reached $155 million in sales.

1987 Reached $82 million in sales.

1985 Express began franchising and reached $18.4 million in sales.

1983 Robert A. Funk, William H. Stoller and James Gray established Express after Acme Personnel, a staffing firm where the founders previously worked, dissolved. Express generated gross revenues of $2.1 million that first year despite the struggling economy.

Express Employment Professionals: The Company Behind the Name

The next several Express blog entries will be about our company, our values and services to give our followers a better understanding of who we are and what we stand for. To start, here’s our company mission and vision.

Our Mission

To professionally market and provide quality human resource solutions through an international franchising network that profit our associates, customers, franchisees, corporate staff, stockholders and communities in which we conduct business.

Our Vision

To help as many people as possible find good jobs by helping as many clients as possible find good people.

For more information about finding a position of filling one in the Greater Palm Beaches, call Express Employment Professionals’ West Palm Beach office today at 561.471.8685 or visit http://wpalmbeachfl.expresspros.com/.

About Express Employment Professionals

For over 25 years, the mission of Express Employment Professionals has been to help people find jobs and help businesses find the people and human resource services they need. We accomplish this mission through a network of more than 550 employment agencies in the United States, Canada, South Africa and Australia. Each Express employment agency is locally owned and operated and backed by the expertise and support of an international headquarters. Simply put, Express is large enough to meet your employment needs, yet small enough to care.

If you’re a job seeker, Express will assess your skills, offer interview and résumé writing tips, and work with you to find a job that fits your needs and abilities. Applicants never pay a fee at Express, and you’ll have the opportunity to earn benefits such as medical insurance, holiday pay, vacation pay, referral bonuses and much more.

As a full-service staffing agency, Express provides employment services and human resource solutions to help meet employers’ needs and production goals. For your HR needs, our services include:

• HR Hotline
• Human Resource audits
• Employee handbook creation
• Job Training and development
• Affirmative action plan creation
• eFeedback™
• Organizational Effectiveness Survey

Our staffing solutions include evaluation and direct hire, temporary and contract staffing, professional search and contract, flexible staffing, and onsite services.

If you’re looking to own your own business, Express offers a successful franchise system that provides exceptional training, service and support.
Express offers professional search and contract staffing services through its Specialized Recruiting Group. Through this service line, candidates with experience in accounting, engineering, information technology and many other fields are placed in short- or long-term contract work or full-time positions.

For more information about Express Employment Professionals, go to our corporate website at http://www.expresspros.com.

Common and Uncommon Sense

By Jim Stovall • July 18th, 2011

I have long been intrigued by people who have become known as universal men and women. These are people who have succeeded at the highest level in more than one field of endeavor. The person who probably most embodies the concept of a universal man is Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was a statesman, inventor, scientist, publisher, and philosopher just to name a few areas of accomplishment.

Benjamin Franklin was fond of saying, “Common sense is not common.” He was pointing out the fact that, just because most people know the right thing to do, doesn’t necessarily mean they will do the right thing.

Think about the current problems you are facing or messes you are cleaning up in your personal or professional life. Oftentimes, we have to admit that we brought these situations on ourselves, either by doing or not doing something that we understood to be important.

Since the invention of the automobile over 100 years ago, there has been no development that has saved more lives than the seatbelt. The seatbelt is a simple, low-cost solution to a potentially lethal problem. Seatbelts are simple, painless, and are literally at our fingertips every time we need them; however, more than a half century after the development of the seatbelt, many people still fail to wear them.

Millions of dollars are spent on advertisements to encourage us to simply wear our seatbelts. All of us old enough to obtain a driver’s license understand the practical, safety, and legal benefits of wearing a seatbelt, but millions of times every day, people get in a car and take their life into their own hands as they drive without putting on their seatbelt. As Mr. Franklin told us, having everyone aware of a benefit is not the same as everyone taking advantage of that same benefit.

There are many obstacles and difficulties in life that we cannot avoid, but unfortunately the ones that are readily avoidable still plague many people who don’t do what they know to be in their best interest. Whether it’s wearing your seatbelt, funding your retirement, getting your insurance and will in order, or any number of simple common sense things we know we should do, our success and failure is determined not by what we know but, instead, it is determined by what we actually do.

As you go through your day today, determine to make common sense common in your life.

Today’s the day!

Jim Stovall is the president of Narrative Television Network, as well as a published author of many books including, “The Ultimate Gift.” He is also a columnist and motivational speaker. He may be reached at 5840 South Memorial Drive, Suite 312, Tulsa, OK 74145-9082; by email at Jim@JimStovall.com; or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/jimstovallauthor.

Express Employment Professionals: A Good Corporate Citizen

Express Employment Professionals supports many organizations on both an international and local level. Our philanthropic committee designates funds to a variety of causes each year through our corporate giving program. Our corporate citizenship program supports the efforts of our franchisees to give to their preferred organizations in their local communities.

Children’s Miracle Network
Express is a national fundraising partner with Children’s Miracle Network. We have raised over $3.5 million for the organization since establishing our partnership in 1991. From annual corporate fundraising events at our international leadership conference to local Children’s Miracle Network balloon sales in our U.S. and Canadian offices, Express proudly supports Children’s Miracle Network throughout North America.

Express Clydesdales
The Express Clydesdales travel throughout North America to our local Express offices and are featured in Children’s Miracle Network fundraising events, local Express events and parades of all sizes. They also travel to shows and compete at Rodeos and other horse events.

How to Standout from 3,000 Other Job Applicants

As one of the top five of Fortune’s Top 100 Best Companies to Work for in 2010, Google sees thousands of résumés every day. In fact, in 2008, The NewYork Times reported that Google received more than 20,000 résumés each week – that’s an average of two résumés every minute. While most companies don’t see anything like 2,000 to 3,000 résumés every day, let alone in a year, in today’s economy there’s still numerous applicants for every open job no matter where you apply. So how do you get the job when you’re up against such tough competition?

What Google Looks for in Candidates
Entrepreneur Magazine recently interviewed Google’s staffing manager, Todd Carlisle, on what he looks for in an employee when hiring for Google’s highly coveted jobs, and one of the qualities Carlisle mentions is ambition. “An Ivy League alum with a high GPA is great, but even better is the person who was the first in the family to go to college and did well while working an extra job,” Carlisle said.
It’s probably not a surprise to you that employers are looking for qualities like determination and self-motivation in potential employees. With smaller workforces and heavy workloads, businesses need employees with the drive to help solve problems and boost productivity.

For unemployed job seekers, it’s difficult to stay motivated and driven when finding work has become a full-time job in its own right. For employees who are looking to job hop because of stress, employee engagement issues, or job security concerns at work, it’s tempting to play it safe and lay low in their current position. But, to get the job and stand out from the crowd, determination and aspiration are exactly what you need whether you’re unemployed or just job hopping.

Preparing for Your Next Interview
Before your next interview, come up with several examples that demonstrate your ambition, whether it’s when you took initiative to make a process more efficient at work or when you went to night school while you working full-time to build a better future for you and your family.

Above all, as you continue your job search, remember to stay motivated. Don’t settle. Keep learning. Keep dreaming. Keep growing and doing. The skills you acquire and develop today will help get you the job of your dreams tomorrow.

EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS TO HELP FILL 100 NEW POSITIONS IN FLORIDA FOR A CANADIAN SECURITY FIRM’S U.S. OFFICE RELOCATION

West Palm Beach, Florida (July 7, 2011) – - -Express Employment Professionals has been selected to staff the accounting department of a Canadian security and cash logistics company moving its U.S. headquarters from Pasadena, Calif., to Boca Raton. The West Palm Beach office of Express Employment Professionals is heading up the search for qualified accounting professionals from mid-level managers to first-line specialists.

“The office relocation is great news for the South Florida job market,” says Lee Fossett, president of Express Employment’s West Palm Beach location. “We’re looking for sharp, energetic accounting professionals with at least two years accounting-department experience in a corporate environment.”

According to Fossett, open positions for the department—which is slated to be up and running August 1—include:

• Billing and contracts administration manager. Salary up to $60,000. Four-year degree required and five or more years of managing an accounts receivable department or related position.
• First-line accounts payable manager. Salary up to $60,000. Four-year degree required and five or more years of managing an accounts payable department.
• First-line accounts receivable manager. Salary up to $60,000. Four-year degree required and five or more years of managing an accounts receivable department.
• Collections manager. Salary up to $60,000. Four-year degree required and five or more years of managing an accounts receivable or collections department.
• Executive assistant. Salary up to $45,000. Tri-lingual (English, Spanish and French) preferred. Bilingual marginally acceptable. Utmost professionalism a must.
• Collections agents/collections. $14 to $20 per hour. Four openings. Two or more years commercial collections experience required.
• Accounts payable specialists. $14 to $18 per hour. Three to five openings. Two or more years commercial accounts payable experience required.
• Cash application specialists. $14 to $18 per hour. Two openings. Two or more years cash application experience required.
• General ledger specialists. Up to $20 per hour. Four openings. Two or more years general ledger experience required.
• Property tax specialists. Pay scale to be determined. Two openings. Two or more years commercial property tax experience required.
• Risk management claims processor. Up to $20 per hour. Three openings.
• Billing and invoicing specialists. Up to $18 per hour. Four openings.
• Payroll clerks. Two openings. Two or more years multi-location payroll experience required.
• Multiple positions for data entry clerks, billing clerks, receptionists, etc. also open.

Only accounting professionals who live within a reasonable driving distance to Boca Raton and with the above outlined qualifications will be considered. Interested candidates should email their resume directly to Lee Fossett at Lee.Fossett@expresspros.com

Express Employment Professionals is a staffing agency providing businesses throughout Greater Palm Beach with temporary employees for periods of peak production, upgrades to key positions, payroll outsourcing and HR-related services. For information about Express Employment Professionals, call 561-471-8285 or visit http://www.wpalmbeachfl.expresspros.com.