SYRACUSE — Albany–area staffing firm Fusco Personnel plans to open an office in the Syracuse region soon. Fusco Personnel’s clients include both job seekers and employers in various industries including health care, manufacturing, and insurance. The employment agency has some clients based in Syracuse that encouraged Fusco Personnel to look into opening an office […]
SYRACUSE — Albany–area staffing firm Fusco Personnel plans to open an office in the Syracuse region soon.
Fusco Personnel’s clients include both job seekers and employers in various industries including health care, manufacturing, and insurance. The employment agency has some clients based in Syracuse that encouraged Fusco Personnel to look into opening an office in the area, Patricia A. Fusco, founder, president, and CEO, says in an interview. She spoke with CNYBJ via phone on Jan. 26.
“We have been approached within the last month or two to do some services out in the Syracuse area, so since that’s happened, we started exploring opportunities in Syracuse and other opportunities that have come to us,” Fusco says.
Fusco Personnel hasn’t yet picked its Syracuse home, Fusco says. She and her team are looking at office space in downtown Syracuse and the Liverpool area. At the time of the interview, they hoped to finalize the location by early February and move in within the month.
“Within the last 30 days is when we started to really look at office space out there, seeing that the need is so strong,” Fusco says.
She says some of the current staff may work in Syracuse, so it is too early to determine how many people the company will hire for the new office. Fusco Personnel, based in the town of Guilderland, just outside Albany, generates annual revenue between $3 million and $8 million.
Jason Moak, Fusco Personnel’s business development manager, says it was a natural progression to establish an office in Syracuse since the company already does work in the region. The area also resembles its home market.
“It’s a very similar demographic to Albany,” he says. “We do a lot of work in similar industries that are the focal point of Syracuse.” These industries include health care and insurance.
Fusco Personnel currently has 11 employees who work directly for the agency and 150 temporary contract employees it provides other businesses and organizations. The firm employed more than 450 temporary employees last year and placed over 450 people in direct-hire permanent or temporary-to-hire positions, according to Fusco.
Fusco founded her company in 1994. It is a certified women’s business enterprise (or WBE).
The company’s services include executive searches, human-resources consulting, analysis of institutional needs, providing mid-level recruits, as well as temporary, temp-to-perm, and contract staffing services, according to the Fusco Personnel website.
