Kelly Financial Resources, the finance and accounting division of Troy, Mich.-based temp agency Kelly Services Inc., earlier this month opened an office in Orange.
Kelly Financial provides contract and full-time placement for management and degree-level accounting and finance jobs.
“We have some pretty major clients, especially in Irvine,” said Stephanie Wolfe, director of the Orange branch. “So it made sense for us to set up an office in Orange County.”
The office will handle work for all of OC, plus Riverside County and eastern Los Angeles County.
Kelly soon will open another office in Glendale to handle the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valley portions of LA County.
The OC office forecasts $150,000 in total revenue for its first year of operation and expects to place about 40 people during that time.
Wolfe said she doesn’t expect the economic slowdown to affect the office’s business.
“This region won’t take the kind of hit our offices in Silicon Valley have,” said Wolfe.
The office has three staffers, and plans to double that to six within a year.
Kelly Services Inc. has 2,200 offices spanning 25 countries, placing 750,000 people annually. Company-wide revenue for 2000 was $4.5 billion. Kelly Financial Resources accounted for about $1 billion in sales last year. n
