SI Review - How People Get Started in Staffing
How People Get Started in Staffing
by Julie McCoy
August 2010
Swapping Technology Company for Technology Staffing
Annie Whetstine, a senior account executive at Chicago-based Instant Technology, worked for CDW, a technology company also in Chicago, before getting into staffing. She did sales and also trained salespeople, training about 2,000 people while she was there. She also hired trainers.
When CDW was bought, and went from being a public company to a private one, Whetstine began going to staffing companies to see what work she could find. She went to Global Employment Solutions, which referred her to Instant Technology. Global Employment Solutions does a little bit of everything whereas Instant Technology focuses strictly on technology staffing, so it was a better fit, she explains.
Whetstine says her technology background has helped her succeed in a technology staffing company. She likes being in the people business and plans to stay in staffing. "For me, it's more of a reward to place a person," she says. "I can have a relationship with the person I place versus a server or a desktop. You don't have a relationship there."
