Pittsburgh Technical Staffing Association
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Staffing services include short and long term contract help, contract-to-direct hire, direct hire placement, payroll services, and mangaged services (outsourcingOur member firms offer employees flexible and challenging work assignments, a menu of beneifts and diverse learning opportunites.

Short and Long-Term Contract Help
A staffing firm supplies employees to work on short/long term and indefinite assignments. Employees are recruited, screened, and assigned by the staffing firm.  A staffing firm hires its own employees and assigns them to support or supplement a customer's workforce in situations involving employee absences, skill shortages, seasonal workloads, and projects.

Contract to Direct Hire
A staffing firm employee works for a customer during a trial period in which both the employee and the customer consider establishing a "direct" employment relationship.

Direct Hire Placement
A staffing firm brings together job seekers and potential employers for the purpose of establishing a "direct" employment relationship.

Payroll Services
The customer recruits workers but asks a staffing firm to hire and assign them to perform services.  Also, workers currently employed by the customer may be placed on the payroll of a staffing firm.

Managed Services
A staffing firm assumes full responsibility for operating a specific customer function (e.g., Help Desk) on an on-going basis.