QPS Employment Group

QPS Employment Group
13935 Bishops Drive, Suite 330, Brookfield
www.qpsemployment.com
Industry: Professional services
Employees: 236

QPS Employment Group’s name may sound traditional enough, but the firm — and its owner — are anything but.

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Scott Mayer began the company after dropping out of college in the mid-1980s. Mayer was a “19-year-old punk,” who thought the staffing agency he worked for treated him badly and paid him even worse. What they did do, however, was teach him the staffing business inside and out.

Mayer decided the only way he was going to care about a company was if he ran it himself. With $5,000, and his parent’s basement as his home base, Mayer launched QPS Employment Group with a single client and a long prospect list.

“It was all a slow process. We started from scratch,” Mayer said. “It just kind of evolved.”

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Mayer said his work with Tombstone Pizza and Kraft foods gave him bragging rights and helped solidify his name in the staffing industry.

QPS provides temp, temp-to-hire and direct hire solutions, as well as translations, human resources consulting, market studies, survey, newsletters and piece rate studies in industrial, skilled trades, office and professional settings. More than 6,000 individuals are on assignment every day, said Mayer.

During the Great Recession, QPS absorbed a hit but rebounded quickly, growing more than 58 percent during 2009-10.

Today, QPS Employment Group has more than 230 employees. In the past five years, the firm has acquired six staffing firms across the Midwest, the latest of which included 10 branches in Kansas, earlier this year.

“When we enter a market we try really hard to dominate,” Mayer said. “Take someone over and grow the business. We’d like to be like Menards (a regional hardware chain). A strong Midwest company.”

QPS employees share in the firm’s success, receiving quarterly and year-end bonuses and profit sharing options, in addition to generous pay and benefits.

“It sounds cliché, but it really does matter,” Mayer said of employee perks. “We go that extra yard. I’m proud of my team and what we’ve built.”

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