What is alternative staffing?
Alternative staffing enterprises deliver competitive staffing services that connect employers with qualified, motivated talent while supporting thousands of marginalized job seekers to enter the labor market and achieve their employment goals.
Value to Employers
Employers cite four reasons they prefer using alternative staffing suppliers: better understanding of their business needs and priorities, higher quality screening and matching, greater responsiveness, and worker supports that improve performance and reliability.
Opportunities for Job Seekers
Temporary staffing is the fastest growing segment of the workforce and a key pathway to employment. Temporary placements offer job seekers a way to build their resume, develop skills and self confidence, and demonstrate their reliability and value to potential employers
Returns to Funders
Alternative Staffing Organizations (ASOs) leverage foundation and government grants with fee revenues from employers, lowering the cost to serve job seekers compared with other transitional employment.
Resources
for ASO
Development
Read our Introductory Guide and let us introduce you to practitioners serving similar job seekers. Join the Alliance to access benchmarking data, sales webinars, operating tools, and other business development resources. Read More
Program equips diverse young job seekers to secure and sustain career-boosting employment.
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Employers often lack formal hiring policies, though, and see need for transitional worker supports.
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Contract design advances capital, shares risk, and ensures accountability.
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A new publication from Social Finance and the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Philadelphia features First Step Staffing and 18 other case studies about innovative, results-based workforce development models of funding and risk-sharing.
Learn MoreThis 1-hour online course and certification defines background report terminology and uses scenarios to help businesses comply with EEOC guidelines and refine their hiring criteria and rationale for assessing candidates.
Learn MoreSpend an hour each month to discuss current business challenges, issues and opportunities with fellow operators.
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