Comments on Advance Indiana™: $2 Million Handout For Staffing Company

Anybody recognize any of these PrincetonOne names ...

2007-04-13T10:07:00.000-05:00

Anybody recognize any of these PrincetonOne names from the photo taken with Mitch?
Mark Haering (Senior Partner),
Brad Reynolds (Senior Partner),
Dave Campeas (President and CEO),
Bill Kuntz (Vice President),
Dennis McCall (Senior Partner),
Matt Lemmons (Senior Partner),
Mark Risley (Senior Partner),
Dave Hickman (Managing Partner)

Here's the link to the article:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/4/prweb518548.htm

Mark Haering, Brad Reynolds, Bill Kuntz, Dennis McCall, and Dave Hickman are with the Indianapolis base PrincetonOne office.

Stallio's reference to work the company has done f...

2007-04-13T07:36:00.000-05:00

Stallio's reference to work the company has done for Lilly is interesting. I know it is very difficult to become a staffing contractor for Lilly. There are several local companies who fought very hard to obtain that status. It appears in that case that any work PrincetonOne does for Lilly is just taking away work from the other staffing companies. I just can't see how the state or the city benefit in any way from subsidizing a staffing company.

Hiring pharmaceutical sales people doesn't really ...

2007-04-13T05:49:00.000-05:00

Hiring pharmaceutical sales people doesn't really sound like "executive recruiting". The vast majority of executives aren't sales people, engineers or representatives.

Way to go Indianapolis, $2 mil would have gone a long way to clearing up abandoned housing. I doubt any of the "executives" recruited will live in Marion County anyway.

from IBJ:The New Jersey-based firm has 19 location...

2007-04-13T01:16:00.000-05:00

from IBJ:

The New Jersey-based firm has 19 locations in the United States, Europe and Asia. But Indianapolis accounts for 40 percent of its business and has been its fastest-growing market, CEO Dave Campeas said in an interview.

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PrincetonOne, formed in 2002, claims it is one of the nation's 10 largest staffing firms. It has done work for such companies as Xerox Corp., GlaxoSmithKline and Microsoft.

PrincetonOne helped Lilly launch a new infectious disease drug by training and helping Lilly hire 200 sales people for specific markets. The 6-month staggered process was designed "to save Eli Lilly from hiring employees before they were ready," according to the company's Web site. It did not name the drug for which the sales people were hired.

despite only being founded in '02, PO claims in its ads that it has "33 years in the business", presumably because of older companies that it acquired.

this press release isn't very interesting, but has a photo of MMM with CEO campeas and several partners.

this podcast has an interview with dave campeas... but i'm not sure whether it's actually worth listening to.

It sounds like a head-hunting firm that wants to b...

2007-04-12T22:50:00.000-05:00

It sounds like a head-hunting firm that wants to be around Indy so it can syphon off the creme of the workstaff to jobs into other states if not other countries. And we're paying $2 million to be robbed of the best of Indiana.

If you have the need for a job-search ability then the service should pop-up here unaided. If you have to pay them to come here, you're not promoting jobs in Indiana, you're promoting the raiding of Indiana companies. What else will the PrincetonOne branch do here to justify itself to its corporate headquarters?

-- Lynn David

Sorry I didn't get this all in the first post, but...

2007-04-12T22:37:00.000-05:00

Sorry I didn't get this all in the first post, but here's a list of all the job titles they are presently recruiting for in Indiana:
Drug Safety Surveillance Specialist Diabetes Care Specialist
Institutional Diabetes Care Specialist
Financial Coordinator
Receptionist
Receptionist
Account Executive
Account Executive
Trucking Sales Rep
Trucking Sales Representative
HVAC & Controls Technician Manager
Controls Tech
Major Accounts Sales Rep
Commercial Finance - Business Development Manager
Process Engineer
Engineering and Maintenance
Sr. Post-Sales Engr
Account Executive

These jobs don't seem to be any different than the myriad other jobs recruited for by local staffing firms.

Correction, it appears that it is still a MRI fran...

2007-04-12T22:31:00.000-05:00

Correction, it appears that it is still a MRI franchise. If you click on the "Search jobs" button, you're taken directly to a MRI database.

I can't fathom this. There were already a couple of local MRI franchisees that do "executive recruiting".

The President/CEO is Dave Campeas. All indications...

2007-04-12T22:28:00.000-05:00

The President/CEO is Dave Campeas. All indications are that it was simply a Management Recruiters Inc. franchise that went independent. It doesn't even seem to be particularly large for a staffing firm.

Elwood Staffing has 18 offices in Indiana alone; PrincetonOne has 19 worldwide.