Founded in 1997, we have successfully placed over 3000 candidates and have been recognized by the Pittsburgh Business Times as one of our region’s fastest growing companies repeatedly. Combined, our staff brings over 50 years of recruiting industry experience to the table. We focus on what’s most important: identifying, attracting and retaining the very best candidates for our clients. Our customized, flexible approach to the unique needs of each customer and candidate and focus on placement success & longevity sets us apart.
Our Vision: Success for everyone
Our staff is committed to this vision with everything we do, and you will notice a difference. Our approach goes beyond understanding and meeting the needs of clients and extends to understanding & meeting the candidate’s needs as well. Placements are made not by matching resumes to job descriptions but by thoroughly pairing the unique needs of each client with a candidate’s individual experience, skills, talents, characteristics, motivators, interests and values. Our equation for success:
Company: streamlined hiring process + reduced turnover & retraining =
enhanced bottom line.
Candidate: competitive compensation + more personal fulfillment at work =
enhanced life.
Specialized: Our vision realized = success for everyone.
About Our Culture
If you value a perfect balance of drive to succeed, personal & professional growth, peer support and recognition for your efforts Specialized may be the place for you. Around here we strive to support each other in the achievement of individual and team goals by providing ongoing training and an environment that fosters personal and professional development. Around here we embrace change, encourage flexibility and creativity and reward determination. Those with a positive attitude, high level of energy and confidence as well as a strong desire to help others succeed while achieving success for themselves are destined for greatness with us and we welcome the opportunity to hear from you. If the term “work ethic” makes you squeamish — you may want to reconsider.
The Best Work With Us
-Lisa Guard, President
About Giving Back
At Specialized we’re very aware and thankful for how fortunate we are. Giving back is something we don’t just do to do rather it comes from the heart.
A great new twist on the holidays for us is taking the money we’d otherwise spend on a Christmas party and shopping to make Christmas a special day for a local family. Our 2010 Christmas party was spent making cookies for a local non-profit that provides free meals.
Some local organizations we have been happy to support through donation and/or volunteer efforts are:
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County- Butler County Chamber of Commerce
- Butler County Humane Society
- Butler Road Race (provides scholarships to local students)
- Butler Little Theater
- Butler Public Library
- Butler Downtown (downtown revitalization)
- Family Pathways
- Lifesteps
- Orphans of the Storm, Kittanning (animal shelter)
- St. Luke Lutheran Church
- St. Paul Seminary
- United Way
About Having Fun
No denying we work hard. Celebrating our success and having fun go hand-in-hand with keeping our positive energy level high! From planned activities like “Soup Friday” a group effort in weekly culinary (and sometimes experimental) fun, to impromptu roof-top happy hours and trips to Steeler victory parades we also pride ourselves in playing as hard as we work.
