Advantage Resource Group

We did not intend to be in the personnel business. I never thought about owning a staffing agency. I had a hard enough time finding jobs for myself during my lifetime, let alone be responsible for the career lives of others. It is surprising how God led us to the business without our realizing it at the time. In spite of this, in 1985 I found myself the proud owner of an executive placement service, Altoona Personnel. A year later, in 1986 we hired Bobbi Dixon. We devised flex time for her before it became vogue in America. Currently, Bobbi directs the activities in two offices and work in executive placement. Bonnie and Brenda joined us in the ensuing years, making us a willing group of four. We worked well together, never complaining, and with the same vision in our heads. Bonnie has undertaken the challenge of developing our safety program, oversees training, and internal human resource responsibilities. Brenda not only manages two offices, but works with our unemployment program. In 1996, we opened our second office in Johnstown. There have been many lessons learned and many more to learn in having a second office. As our reputation spread and with requests from client companies, we added another site in State College in 2000 and in 2001 opened a fourth site in Greensburg. In October of 2005, a 5th site was opened in Huntingdon and 2007 found us opening our 6th office in Bedford. After working in numerous capacities with the organization, on May 1, 2008 our son Derek took over the role of operations manager. In addition, he developed and implemented a payroll processing division. Our culture and core values are who we are and we discovered (the hard way) that when we move away from that culture and those core values, we lose who we are. We are proud of our history and have come full circle in being true to our culture. We are a family oriented company that takes pride in our relationship building skills. Our company is ever-evolving to meet the needs of our clients. Many people I talk with say, "Who knows what the future may bring? We may not have all of the answers, but following the vision we have developed will bring us closer to our goal of helping client companies reach their goal.