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February 1, 2012 - Set and Service Resources, LLC (SASR) is proud to announce their newest offering: retail staffing services exclusively focused on Retail Sales Associates and Store Managers.

Unlike traditional temp agencies, SASR understands the unique challenges retail businesses face when searching for quality, dependable skilled workers. Having provided high-quality workers in other areas of retail service – merchandising, fixture installations, demonstrations – since 2003, SASR has a unique advantage in their new offering of retail employees. Because retail is their exclusive...

January 26th, 2012 - Set and Service Resources, LLC will participate as an exhibitor at the upcoming 2012 Global Shop Conference, which will take place February 29-March 2, 2012 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas.

Set and Service Resources will be one of over 600 exhibitors at the event, which is sponsored by A.R.E. (Association for Retail Environments), a retail trade association consisting of industry leaders who offer cutting-edge solutions in the retail products and services industry. The company will be presenting its services in Booth 3659 (Retail Marketing...

April 6, 2011 - Set and Service Resources, LLC will participate as an exhibitor at the upcoming 2011 NARMS Spring Conference, which will take place April 9th-12th at the Portola Hotel & Spa in Monterey, CA.

Set and Service Resources is a Silver Sponsor of the conference and will be one of the 15 associate members exhibiting at the event. The company will be in Booth 102 presenting their retail staffing and store staffing services, temporary labor, niche recruiting and workforce management systems. The workforce management system includes an integrated staffing platform that...

March 17, 2011 - Set and Service Resources, LLC will participate as an exhibitor at the upcoming GlobalShop 2011 retail solutions event, which will take place March 28th-30th at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Set and Service Resources will be one of over 600 exhibitors at the event, which is sponsored by A.R.E. (Association for Retail Environments), a retail trade association consisting of industry leaders who offer cutting-edge solutions in the retail products and services industry. The company will be presenting its services in Booth 5029...

February 2, 2011 - SASR Director of Recruiting Cathy Plumb will be the featured presenter for the upcoming NARMS Webinar titled The Thrill of the Hunt – Social Media. She will share the nuts and bolts of starting a Social Media Network, increase Social Media following plus new sourcing resources to help.  Cathy Plumb is a successful recruiter with over 7 years in high volume part time field recruiting for Merchandiser staffing needs. Her expertise and strong working knowledge uniquely qualifies her to share proven sourcing and recruiting strategies for recruiting success!

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January 4, 2011 - Retail Sales from Nov. 5 to Dec. 24 rose 5.5% over the same period last year according to MasterCard Advisors' SpendingPulse. The figures are ahead of industry wide projections for a 3.3% to 4% rise and are the best since before the recession, with some predicting they may be the best ever. As some retailers enjoyed the benefits of their prior investment in capital spending, more will look to invest money this year for expansion and improved shopper experience.

- "Dollar General is set to open 625 new stores and remodel or relocate another 550"...

Set and Service Resources is the leading provider of temporary labor and staffing services for the Retail Service Industry. Since their inception in 2003 they have had over 110,000 profiles set up in their proprietary staffing system HireFlex.  Currently they have 15,000 active job seekers, with 2,000 new applicants each week.    One way Set and Service Resources helps these applicants set themselves apart from others is by assigning career levels to each rep based upon their past experience and performance for  clients.  There are four different career levels...

On August 2nd, 2010 the 100,000th profile was created on the Set and Service Resources' website.

The company formed in July 2003 with 254 profiles on an excel spreadsheet.   Today they often have over 250 profiles created in one day.  With the applicant pool they have available now, they can fill most job orders in the first few hours of them being posted. The available online recruiting resources have expanded tremendously since 2003 and internet usage has grown 146.3% among the North American population since the first part of the decade (...

July 19th,  2010:  Set and Service Resources (SASR) has added 10 people to its internal and staffing operations to support its continued growth and to ensure it serves its customers, associates and teammates in a professional and timely manner.  Joining as Staffing Coordinators are Barbara Cutler, Heidi Longano, Cathy Plumb, Rick Mullen, Christi Palmer, Tiffani Hall, Kim Shupert, Melissa Herron and Michelle Smith.  Robin Richardson has joined as Receptionist.

Erik Hanvey, CEO of SASR comments “As the retail sector continues to recover...

July 1st, 2010 was the 7th year anniversary of Set and Service Resources

Set and Service Resources was conceived by Erik Hanvey In December of 2002, with the idea of building a national qualified workforce that other companies could use during the peaks of their workloads.

The original idea was to create a pool of workers that other companies could access themselves and charge a flat rate for each job they performed.  The model was changed due to the need to manage the workers on a daily basis. The first clients, in July 2003, were MSO companies performing resets in a...

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