Strategic Staffing launches Military Pilot Program

September 17, 2013 by

Transitioning from the military to civilian life can be a challenge. After spending four years or more in the service of our country, those leaving the military have to decide what roads to take to shape the rest of their lives.

With that in mind Cindy Pasky and Ken Huxley, Southwest branch manager and a retired Air Force colonel), collaborated and developed S3’s first Military Pilot Program (aka the S3 Combat Recruiting Support Team). Under that program four former military people joined S3 as sourcers in the San Antonio office.

“The military requires its people to think fast, learn quickly, adapt easily, build solid relationships and have strong ethics and that fits S3 to a T,” Pasky said. “We are so pleased to have this new team onboard and are confident they will be able to bring many former military people onboard as consultants.

“Military people know the value of teamwork, and of being resourceful,” she said, pointing out that more than 70% of Fortune 1000 executives are former military members. “We welcome them to S3 and our ‘Go Green’ culture.”

The new team is working out of the Southwest Branch, but they’ll provide sourcing support for branches across the company.

“The focus for our program is to get talented people from the military and help them become recruiters,” Huxley said. “We will grow from within.

“We offered them the opportunity to come in and learn sourcing from ground up. The team is in a sourcing role so they can learn the technology and get the lay of land. Then, as they get experience with customers across country, they will transition from sourcer to junior recruiter and then senior recruiter,” he said. “While joint military operations are typically coded purple, these guys are already S3 Green.”

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Strategic Staffing and Cindy Pasky playing a key role in Detroit’s transformation

September 13, 2013 by

S3 is committed to working with the communities in which it does business. That goes big time for Detroit, which as most know is in the midst of a financial crisis. Even so the business community remains vested and invested the city.

strategic-staffing-solutions-invested-in-detroitIt’s up to Cindy Pasky, S3 founder and CEO, to carry that message out to world as chair of the Downtown Detroit Partnership. DDP is a private/public partnership of corporate and civic leaders that support, advocate and develop programs and initiatives designed to create a clean, safe, beautiful, inviting, vibrant and economically viable Downtown Detroit community.

This group has taken on the challenge of transforming Detroit into a great urban neighborhood with a unique point of view where people will choose to live, work, and play. Not an easy task but Pasky has created a collaborative, committed board that works together to get things done in Detroit as quickly as possible.

“One of my favorite quotes is from Winston Churchill, ‘A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty,’” Pasky said. “Optimists are rarely in their comfort zone. They embrace change and move forward. DDP is full of optimists and optimism and it’s paying off. It’s the same philosophy we have at S3.”

Here are just a few things DDP hopes to achieve by 2016:

  • The startup of the M1-Rail project, a 3.3-mile light rail/streetcar circulator that will connect downtown Detroit to the New Center district Woodward Avenue. It’s set to break ground this summer, with a target open-for-business date in the last half of 2015.
  • Increase the number of employees working in downtown Detroit to 100,000
  • The creation of dense walkable downtown neighborhoods with really great amenities
  • The revitalization of public spaces so they will attract more people to downtown to live, work and play
  • The addition of 1,200 new residents downtown bringing the total number to around 7,000

S3 is playing a role in achieving that goal. It is part of DDP’s Live Downtown program, which is open to S3 employees. It gives them a $20,000 forgivable loan toward the purchase of new home downtown and new renters a $2,500 allowance toward the cost of their apartment in the first year followed by additional funding of $1,000 for the second year. There are also incentives for current downtown homeowners and renters.

“Strategic Staffing Solutions has been located in Detroit since we opened 22 years ago and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to further invest in both our employees and our city through supporting Live Downtown,” said Pasky. “I hope more of our employees take advantage of the program. I’ve lived downtown for 26 years and I know they’ll find it exciting.

“Detroit is a model for placemaking. It is a special place that overflows with opportunities … just like S3.”

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