About Career Start - Career Start

At Career Start, We Believe In People

Companies needing quick, efficient solutions to their staffing needs lean on and trust us as their partners. And workers looking for jobs know they can rely on us to place them where they can succeed. We’re the glue that connects employees and the companies. At our core, we connect workers and jobs. We lead the way in staffing on-demand, large-volume accounts, focused on the match industries, manufacturing, hospitality, administrative/clerical, and food service industries. For companies looking to hire talent or support seasonal and cyclical upticks , we’re the partner they call to get it done fast and right. That solution often involves technology, which we’re the leaders in. We’re at the cutting edge of talent acquisition technology, to help customers manage their existing workforces, grow their businesses, and carry out their missions. Because we all share a similar mission: to make it easy businesses to find talent.

We're all about being R.A.D.D.

We live and breath these four core values in every aspect of our business

Raise The Bar

Some people like to play on a mountain with no top. Hi, that’s us! We empower each other, hold each other accountable, and push each other to be better, so we can be the best versions of ourselves. Our whole team is made up of high performers who are all-in on self-improvement, and allergic to just coasting by. ALWAYS

Always Ready

We like our processes insanely easy and our possibilities endless. We consider it an ultimate success when someone could pick up where we left off. We subscribe to the theory of rapid evolvement and believe that we must give up our individual roles to go up as an organization. Our extreme flexibility in workflow is one of our most coveted superpowers. The simplicity in our systems fast tracks us to carry out our higher purpose.

Deliver The Best

Lightning-fast communication is just the first step to our formula for killer service. We consider quality a non-negotiable goal and we commit to high-impact outcomes. Our interactions are lead with curiosity, transparency, and respect—that’s how we keep our standards high. We deliver the best because we are the best.

Disrupt The Drift

We’re constantly in the work of dropping our default and reimagining something greater. We’re easily inspired by ingenuity and we celebrate higher thinking. We’re bold and we operate from a profound sense of purpose. We exist to disturb the status quo.

You need an engaged staffing partner - That's Us

A Bold Vision For The Staffing Industry

Career Start is a high growth Staffing and Workforce Management Group with a new technology addition focused on enhancing our industry relationships and expanding nationally. Our organization was born in 2007 as pilot program out of Rochester, NY that was aimed at transitioning people from public assistance to the workforce. In 2011, we harnessed our experience in employee placement and expanded into the staffing vertical. We maintain a keen focus on high volume general labor staffing and medical staffing. We deliver “Speed to Market” results. As a rapidly growing company with nearly 100 passionate corporate employees and thousands of ready-to-place associates, we offer exponential growth and a solid opportunity to impact the communities in which we are stakeholders.

We are the #1 Rochester medical, general and hospitality staffing agency. We are a 2023 Top Workplaces winner for the Region. As of 2021, we are a Great Place to Work Certified Company. We have been honored with making the Rochester Top 100 List (#40 in 2022) 7 years in a row and we have made the Inc. 5000 list since 2017. Only 20% of the companies that make it into the Inc. 5000 make it 6 years in a row, and an even smaller percentage make it in more than that! In addition, Career Start ranked #40 on the 50 Fasted Growing Woman Owned Company in 2018. In 2020, Career Start was an honoree of the RBJ Technology and Manufacturing Powerful Partnership award with one of our larger customers. In 2021, Career Start made the Inc. 5000 Regionals: NY Metro List of fastest-growing private companies for the first time. Career Start also was awarded Employer of the Year by the Veteran’s Outreach Center and earned the #1 spot on the Rochester Business Journal’s Woman-Owned List.