We believe that service delivered promptly, ethically and professionally earns trust. We work with clients to deliver reliable and economical staffing solutions that enhance productivity, improve flexibility and achieve the desired results. Our goal is to build professional partnerships with our clients that maximize the benefits of working with our organization.

Why use a staffing firm for hiring instead of doing it in-house?

Today’s businesses are realizing that the search for qualified individuals is a full time job, which requires access to costly resume databases, trade organizations, user groups, and countless man hours to filter through resumes and candidate interviews. The days of finding talent by posting an advertisement in the local newspaper are gone. Traditionally, this relentless search for qualified candidates is conducted by HR or, in many cases, the hiring manager. As a result, many strong candidates are never uncovered, and the recruiting process is shortened because of competing demands with daily operational needs. By using a Staffing Firm, you save time and money by avoiding the minute details involved in hiring, training, and termination of personnel. Our only business is people and relationships.

If you're looking for a temporary solution, contract staffing provides the ultimate flexibility, allowing you to hire and terminate with minimal HR issues. We recruit, interview, test, and provide only qualified candidates for you to choose from. We also cover the costs of employment such as state, local, and social security taxes, unemployment insurance, paid time off, time keeping, and payroll administrative processing.

If you're looking for a more permanent solution, our Direct Hire services save you time and money by providing you with pre-screened, qualified candidates for you to hire from. Direct Hire is the ideal way to fill a position immediately without placing ads, maintaining costly subscriptions to resume databases, maintaining costly candidate databases, placing hundreds of telephone calls, unwanted interruptions to your office, time-consuming resume review, and excessive interviews. Additionally, we offer partial recruiting services to clients with internal HR/Recruiting Teams which only need support for specific portions of the recruiting process. With resume sourcing services, or hourly recruiting services, we can maximize your team’s production with dedicated support without the cost of a new staff member.

The Agate Group also offers full IT Solutions. Whether you are implementing new hardware, updating your network, or developing a new software product, our experienced staff can review your requirements, and provide a comprehensive and competitive solution to your needs. The Agate Group can provide either fixed bid solutions, or hourly resources. We can provide local resources, or leverage our global team, thus eliminating budget cost overruns. The Agate Group Solutions team has considerable expertise in open system technology, which can be leveraged to further reduce costs while maintaining industry-standard solutions.

With all the monetary and opportunity costs associated with staffing, it's no wonder that over 90% of all businesses large and small use staffing firms as part of their management strategy to balance workforce needs year round.

The following is a partial list of clients our team has serviced:

CA Department of Justice	Unify
CA Department of Pesticide	SBC Communications
CalTrans	IBM
CA Energy Commission	Insurance Benefit Spot Check, Inc
CA Board of Equalization	TelePacific
NEC	Brocade Communications