What is alternative staffing?
Alternative staffing enterprises deliver competitive staffing services that connect employers with qualified, motivated talent while supporting thousands of marginalized job seekers to enter the labor market and achieve their employment goals.
Value to Employers
Employers cite four reasons they prefer using alternative staffing suppliers: better understanding of their business needs and priorities, higher quality screening and matching, greater responsiveness, and worker supports that improve performance and reliability.
Opportunities for Job Seekers
Temporary staffing is the fastest growing segment of the workforce and a key pathway to employment. Temporary placements offer job seekers a way to build their resume, develop skills and self confidence, and demonstrate their reliability and value to potential employers
Returns to Funders
Alternative Staffing Organizations (ASOs) leverage foundation and government grants with fee revenues from employers, lowering the cost to serve job seekers compared with other transitional employment.
Resources
for ASO
Development
Read our Introductory Guide and let us introduce you to practitioners serving similar job seekers. Join the Alliance to access benchmarking data, sales webinars, operating tools, and other business development resources. Read More
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Spend 90 minutes each month to discuss current business challenges, issues and opportunities with fellow operators and industry experts.
Learn MoreThe Alternative Staffing Alliance welcomes all alternative staffing practitioners, whether nonprofit or for-profit, and organizations and individuals who are exploring this enterprise strategy for workforce development or have an academic or policy interest in alternative staffing.
We also invite supplier partners who provide quality products and services to staffing businesses and employment social enterprises.
Become a Member NowNetworking and Referral Opportunities
Access to peer network of practitioners, and facilitated communication for ongoing learning and solutions exchange.
RoundTable calls that focus on learning topics suggested by members and often feature subject matter experts. We continue to hold these monthly.
Discounted conference and event fees for interactive workshops and informal networking.
Sector Information
Access to biannual Performance Survey report, an analysis of key business and social outcomes data from operators to help ASO managers benchmark their individual results, and demonstrate the sector’s collective scale and impacts.
Publication of member profiles, news items and industry reports that highlight sector trends and best practices.
Resource library of case studies and academic research publications.
Business Resources
Sales and marketing planning guides and other resources, educational webinars, and other Supplier Partner support to strengthen your business operations.
Staff resources to research business-related topics and access to sample business forms and documents.
Email alerts regarding newly published studies and funding opportunities.