Partner of the Month

HAP Partner of the Month - March 2010

Atlas Staffing Inc.

Job Developers at HAP truly appreciate an employer partner who strives to understand HAP’s program participants. Atlas Staffing, founded in 1985, employs more than five thousand people per year and is one of the largest locally-owned staffing providers in the Twin Cities. Despite their large size, Atlas has continually made a conscious effort to listen to and understand HAP participants. This kind of attention is undoubtedly one of the keys to Atlas’s success in the Twin Cities employment staffing market.

Atlas Staffing, particularly their Minneapolis office, has worked closely with Hmong American Partnership since 2005. Atlas Staffing has hired over 40 HAP participants over these five years. Atlas has listened to HAP’s suggestions about how to make HAP job candidates into optimally successful employees. Atlas has also solicited cultural advice from HAP staff members, which they have used to further improve the cultural sensitivity with which they operate.

Atlas has taken many steps to make their services accessible to the Hmong community. Atlas employs a Hmong bilingual staffing coordinator at its Saint Paul office. ATA Staffing, a subsidiary of Atlas in Robbinsdale, recently hired a Hmong bilingual coordinator. Additionally, Atlas has translated signs and information sheets into Hmong for the benefit of its many Hmong employees.

Atlas Staffing keeps HAP informed about positions for which HAP’s Hmong and non-Hmong job-seekers would be likely to qualify. Its salespeople even seek out new worksites with HAP participants in mind, which has helped to place even more HAP participants into suitable employment.

HAP is grateful for the strong partnership with Atlas Staffing.