Horizon Personnel Services says its top five trending jobs this year are: machine operators, material handlers, warehouse associates, customer service reps and on-site supervisors.
The Orange-based company owned by Charlene Garza, a Business Journal Women in Business Award winner in 2021, this year is also touting jobs like commercial drivers, warehouse workers and janitors. Most of Garza’s staffing work is in food manufacturing, logistics and warehouses that supply large clients like Walmart.
The company, too, is looking to hire.
“Join our team as a recruiter,” says a February tweet. “Hiring ASAP. Full-time & benefits. Great pay.”
Garza formed her first company, StaffChex, in 2004 in Sacramento before moving to Orange County because of demand.
Since insurance rates are so much higher in California than other states, in 2012 she formed Horizon Personnel Services, which now holds all its California offices. Meanwhile her offices in Georgia, Arizona, Missouri and Nevada are run through StaffChex.
Her two companies provide “a workers comp solution” where she assumes responsibilities, a practice that helps companies avoid liabilities such as insurance lawsuits. In turn, Garza is a keen observer of insurance trends.
Garza’s industry is also a bellwether of future economic activity.
“We usually can forecast and see what’s going on based on what our business is doing,” she told the Business Journal last year. “Most companies, when things start picking up, they hire us.”
Her two firms last year employed 6,630, including 130 internal employees and had a run rate around $250 million.
The Business Journal annually honors five women business leaders from diverse industries at the Women in Business Awards. The 27th annual awards will take place on Thursday, Oct. 20 at the Irvine Marriott. For more info, visit: https://www.ocbj.com/events/2022-women-in-business-awards/Â
