HR Companies & HR Consultants in Maryland Heights, MO

Overview

Keystone Staffing is a recruiting and staffing firm in the St. Louis area. It also operates under the Keystone Partnership and Keystone Staffing Resources names, and its listed address is in Maryland Heights, Missouri. The company works with employers that need help filling office, professional and management roles.

The need might be a few weeks of temporary coverage or a permanent addition to the team. Its stated aim is to take the most labor-intensive parts of recruitment off hiring managers' plates so they can keep their attention on running the business.

The firm began in 1992 as an independent executive search and recruitment practice based in St. Louis. Professional recruiting remained its core business. Its emphasis on matching candidates for both ability and workplace fit led the company to service mark the phrase Culture Quotient.

Clients who had relied on Keystone for key management hires later asked for broader support, so the firm expanded into supplemental staffing, the category commonly called temporary help, along with event staffing. The company reports that it has repeatedly appeared among leading local staffing firms in the Book of Lists published by the St. Louis Business Journal.

Its site also references recruiting offices in Creve Coeur, Missouri and Fairview Heights, Illinois.

Services for employers

Keystone handles the hiring cycle from early sourcing through the final offer, including candidate screening and negotiation of pay and benefits. Its offerings for client companies include:

• Executive recruiting and search for senior and management positions
• Temporary staffing for short-term needs
• Temp-to-hire arrangements backed by a conversion plan that gives both sides time to confirm fit
• Direct permanent placement
• Event staffing
• Resume screening and applicant testing
• On-site management of temporary workers
• Payroll outsourcing

Specialties and roles filled

The firm concentrates on white-collar and office functions. Its listed specialties are:

• Human resources and talent acquisition
• Accounting and finance
• Executive, administrative, office and legal assistants
• Marketing, account management, inside sales and sales coordination
• Customer service
• Supply chain

Examples of positions it has staffed range from receptionists, secretaries and data entry or file clerks to bilingual customer service associates. They also include accounts payable and receivable staff, collections specialists, medical billing assistants and banking and insurance support. Other examples are mortgage processors and underwriters, HR representatives, sales and marketing representatives, and purchasing and procurement personnel.

How Keystone works

Keystone sets itself apart from what it calls commodity staffing. It argues that screening, interviewing and testing are now standard across the industry. In its view, real value comes from candidates who suit a client's culture as well as its job requirements. The firm says it applies a thorough vetting process so that clients review only well-qualified applicants.

Testimonials on its website come mostly from HR directors and managers at organizations in the legal, technology, medical, energy, manufacturing, food and beverage and industrial sectors. They point to long-running relationships with individual recruiters, the quality of placements and the team's ethics.

For HR buyers in Maryland Heights and the wider St. Louis region, Keystone offers a locally rooted option. It combines executive search experience dating back to the early 1990s with flexible temporary, contract and event staffing. It also provides administrative support such as payroll outsourcing.