Why Palmer Group?

• We are the only employment firm in Iowa that's a single source for Recruiting, Staffing, Consulting and Outplacement services. In addition, our search services are the most comprehensive in Iowa with specialties in Accounting, Information Technology, Human Resources, Engineering, Administration, Sales and Marketing.
• The average years of recruiting experience for a Consultant at Palmer Group is 7 years. This experience results in better interviews, better screening, better networking and in the end better candidates for our clients.
• All staffing firms talk about quality. We walk the talk. For direct placement we offer a 180 day guarantee, the best we know of in Iowa. Our temporary employees go through a very rigorous interview process and less than 20% of the temporary applicants we meet are placed. It's working...in 2008 more than 180 of our temporary employees were hired into full time positions.
• We currently have more than 14,000 active local candidates in our database. We recruit aggressively. We are networked and we receive numerous referrals. We have access to resumes on all of the major online job boards and we receive more than 150 new applications each week at www.thepalmergroup.com.
• We are a local company with all decisions made locally. No "corporate policy" to hide behind. We are a member of the Greater Des Moines Partnership and a "Buy into the Circle" pledge company. We live here, shop here and are active members within the community. The dollars you pay us are reinvested in the local economy and do not go out of state. And...we've have contributed more than $80,000 to local charities.
• Our office is staffed from 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 each workday. This provides a distinct advantage as we handle issues in a timely fashion.
• Teamwork within our office is an advantage for our clients. Our staffing division has an excellent working relationship with our search consultants and as a result both divisions receive excellent candidate referrals. This provides a recruiting advantage over pure temporary staffing firms or recruiting only firms.
• Our use of technology is exceptional. Examples of that include online application from our website, skill search capability in our electronic database, flashes of job openings to our applicant database, electronic referencing, etc...The result? Better candidates faster for our clients.
• We have been voted "Best Executive Search Firm" in Des Moines by readers of the Business Record for the past seven years in a row and "Best Temporary Staffing Firm" in 2007 & 2008.