Manpower Staffing Services

First I want to say that Yasmin was very wonderful over the phone. Advised me there were jobs available and set me an appointment to come in. When I arrived the office is very neat and clean. Everyone greeted me except Yasmin. She was very unprofessional and not prepared for the interview. She was late interviewing me even though I had arrived 30 minutes early. I was very displeased with Yasmin’s lack of order and professionalism since she is the first point of contact. She was so overwhelmed she was ordering her peers to do work for her. I wish I could of had another consultant since her peers were professional and greeted everyone that came in. Last but not least there were no jobs, except warehouse. Also, Yasmin liked to have conversations about clients while others sit and wait to be interviewed which is a huge No No. She needs a enclosed office.

I’ll try to keep this short and sweet but it’s going to be difficult because this place is just awful.
No matter what Marcelle or Yazmin or ChaVon tell you, this office has nothing but labor/​warehouse jobs. They will say that they do have admin/​clerical opportunities… just not right now… but, hey, something could come in tomorrow so stay in touch.
But tomorrow never arrived, for me, after over a year of calling and trying to land something non-​labor. As they let slip this past Monday (01÷04÷16) when things came to a head, they hadn’t had a single administrative or clerical temp job come into their office «in 3 or 4 months».
Here I am thinking that I’m simply missing opportunities when the truth is (was) that this Manpower office isn’t even searching for them… they can’t be. I mean this is also the office that allegedly covers downtown Los Angeles! And I’m fairly certain there are some non-​labor jobs to be had in the DTLA area for the staffing agency interested in finding them. Which is not the Gardena office.
This place is golden for warehouse workers, apparently, but if you’ve got a hankering for office work, just keep on skipping to your lou right past this place.

Recently applied and the recruiter was very optimistic and assured me I would be submitted to several clients. A couple days later my resume was forwarded to colleagues. Today I was told three candidates were submitted and if they don’t work out I’ll be considered. No thank you! I went elsewhere and glad I did.

I don’t know about the first comment but I’m going to talk about my personal experience with Chaunda and her assistant Marda (?). I’ve been calling since the beginning of this year and it is now almost October and I still have not even received a job from her at all. She is unprofessional, flaky and does not pull through for the candidate as she should. When I had first came into contact with her it was through a family friend who had reassured me that she had received a job from her. I went here in the middle of January, need I mind you that I live almost 2 hours away so I was looking to relocate to that area. I was 10 Minutes early and when we got to sit down and talk she had asked me where I lived and I told her the area of my living and she said «Oh, it’s too far for you the commute would kill you.» and that’s what started it all. This is when I didn’t have a car, but moving on to July I had came into possession of a new car (96) that I had bought and I was CONTINUOUSLY calling her and asking for positions and I kept getting the same response. «If something pops up I’ll REACH OUT to you.» Then she has her assistant Marda answer the phone and when she hears my name she says «hold on» lets me hold for a couple of minutes then comes back with the same responses. «She’s away from her desk.» «she’s out to lunch.» «She said there’s nothing available and when something does become available she’ll reach out to you.» And then one time she had me hold she came back and told me «Chaunda said that she’s waiting to hear feedback from them.» and that’s when I caught them both in a lie because we have never talked about positions previous to this conversation. She never did want to talk to me NOR did she answer the phone when I called. Moving on to the present month I called early in the month and spoke to a Terri who was from the Torrence office and she was very friendly and when I explained to her what was going on between me and Chaunda she was appalled and reassured me she was going to speak to her. Not even an hour later Chaunda emailed me stating «I know you’ve been calling but there’s a couple of positions open in Torrence and Commerce. One is warehouse 11.00 and another is a front desk position paying 9.00» When she knows I STILL live almost 2 hours away still. Even with the new positions that her office inherited from the Long Beach office she still cannot find me a job even ALMOST a year later. Very unprofessional indeed. WILL NEVER RECOMMEND TO ANYONE! DO NOT GO THERE!

I don’t think that the previous entry is regarding this office. I had the exact opposite experience with this staffing agency (Sad to Say). Multiple calls, messages and emails have gone unanswered/​unreturned. That does not sound professional to me.

I had an appointment with this office recently.
I was a bit early for the appointment. Chaunda & her colleague were very professional & pleasant from the beginning of the appointment. For whatever reason, it didn’t show that I had registered online for this office. I did the online application & then spoke with Chaunda. I found her to be very professional. She said that she was very busy with various tasks in the office, but that I should follow up with her in a day or so about possible opportunities.
Overall, it was a pleasant experience dealing with Chaunda. The phone rang quite often while I was there. Chaunda & her colleague continued to maintain their professionalism in responding to the phone calls & speaking with other candidates that came into the office.
I have a good feeling about working with Chaunda.