Yes, everybody is optimistic about 2010. We certainly are, staffing companies have probably seen the worst possible year, and that is past now. It is interesting to know what the businesses owners and staffing company leaders have to say about the economy and the way the coming year will be a change compared to last year. Let us start a new week with some quotes and let us unquote them over the next few days:

“Clearly, we believe that the worst is over,” says Yonas Prising, executive VP of Manpower and president of Manpower’s Americas operations. “The question now is: What does the comeback look like? There is nothing to tell us that we would see a roaring comeback, but [instead] moderate growth.”

“The goal is to eventually be at 60% professional staffing and 40% general staffing. We have plenty of room to expand. I hope we fill up every open seat we have over the next year. It would just be wonderful if that happened”—Krause, CEO of Spherion.

“We believe we can grow again in 2010 with focused execution even in a tough environment, in particular with our favorable business mix, which is about 70% physician-focused”—Mike Weinholtz, CEO of CHG Healthcare.

“We had never seen a recession of this magnitude before. We really had to change the way we looked at our business. –Same as above person.

“Some companies want to just receive staff augmentation services, and they have little process in place,” Yoh explains. “Others may prefer an enterprise solution with technology, service level agreements, etc. Our goal is to deliver the solution that best fits the culture and desires of the customer.”—Chairman of Philadelphia Yoh.

“Some companies want to just receive staff augmentation services, and they have little process in place,” Yoh explains. “Others may prefer an enterprise solution with technology, service level agreements, etc. Our goal is to deliver the solution that best fits the culture and desires of the customer.”— Amy Langer, partner in SALO LLC.

“Our company received GSA certification in October 2009 and plans to start providing staffing services to the federal government this year”– Amar Panchal, CEO of Akraya, a Sunnyvale CA-based information technology staffing firm.

Let us ponder upon the above quotes for a moment and discuss the challenges that may be faced when everybody is so optimistic about the things to come.

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