General Employment Enterprises: Provider of Professional Placement Services

For more than 100 years, General Employment Enterprises has been in the business of providing career opportunities to professionals around the world. The company is considered as one of the oldest and biggest professional placement services in the United States.

It is in Naperville, Illinois that the business holds its corporate office. It was in 1893 that the company first opened its agency and focused on engineering. F. L. Winslow created the business and grew the company to start offering professional opportunities in other specialized fields. Today, General Employment Enterprises is engaged in the hiring, contracting and providing contract-to-hire services in the fields of engineering, accounting and IT. In 1967, the business has gone public and started trading over the counter. The following year, it moved to the American Stock Exchange and eventually to the New York Stock Exchange, where it continues to market its common shares today, using the ticker symbol JOB.

For more than a century, the business has dedicated its resources to hunting every corner of the world, to fill the job openings they have. Other than working with their clients, the company has also made it their top priority to offer every applicant with the best business contract to stay with the companies they were hired by. They continue to provide successful solutions that promote retention and increase productivity of their clients. In the field of accounting, the business specializes in looking for the right skills and talents for audit, financial planning and analysis, general accounting, financial reporting, treasury, tax and credit, among others. In engineering, they have electrical, mechanical, design, quality, process, manufacturing management and civil specializations. Under information technology, they specialize in searching for experts in web developing, eCommerce, software/system architects, help desk and tech support, and several others.

The specializations and services offered by the company are marketed under the brand name Busniess Management Personnel, Ashley Ellis, General Employment Enterprises, Omni, Generation Technologies, Triad Staffing and BMCH.