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Temporary Staffing Services The University's current Temporary Staffing Agreement with Todays became effective June 29, 1998. Since that time there have been numerous technological advances, as well as changes in the temporary staffing business. In an effort to provide superior services to the Penn community, in early May, 2001 a Temporary Services Committee was formed to conduct a comprehensive study of available services. The criteria included finding a vendor who could provide professional and experienced on-site staff, comprehensive technology, policies and procedures oriented to excellent and consistent customer service, flexibility-willingness to customizing operating procedures and special services as well as free web training to University employees to learn how to utilize and access their Internet-based services. The process included vendor presentations, site visits to see actual operations and sending a shadow job applicant to see how the firms check references and administered testing to determine a potential employee skills and abilities. Due to exceptional strengths and outstanding capabilities, the Temporary Services Committee unanimously recommended the selection of Unique Advantage (a minority and women owned business) to be the University of Pennsylvania' s exclusive provider of professional and support level talent. As an exclusive vendor to the University of Pennsylvania, Unique Advantage will be working closely with local and highly reputable talent providers, partnering with them to ensure all of your needs are met with a consistent service level. The University of Pennsylvania and the Unique Advantage partnership will be effective January 2002. In the interim, business will continue as before, with Todays filling requisitions for temporary employees and sourcing candidates for full-time regular skilled office support staff. Human Resources will continue to communicate relevant information related to this new partnership as we move forward. The Temporary Services Committee represented a cross selection of schools/centers who utilize the services, and we wish to thank the following committee members:
--Division of Human Resources Almanac, Vol. 48, No. 6, October 2, 2001 |
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