Why Mission...

Connecting Quality People With Quality Careers

It’s Essential to your success…and ours.

Mission Statement

Essential Personnel places highly sought-after employees with the most desired employers.

Through a stringent hiring process, excellent customer service, and a focus on building trusting, long-term relationships.

Or meet our team.

About Essential Personnel

Essential Personnel is there for you before the placement and after – you’ll never be just a number here. Our team serves from our offices in Grand Island, Kearney, Columbus, Norfolk, Fremont, Omaha, NE, and Des Moines, IA helping people meet their career or business goals.

As an independently owned and operated full-service staffing and recruiting firm, we take the time to build relationships and offer the personal attention you expect.

Vision

We strive to be the staffing leader that impacts lives daily in each community we serve with the reputation of the highest professional standards and exceptional service quality. 

Core Values

Each team member is driven, hardworking and enjoys having fun interacting at work and through activities and events outside of work. Our core values are the DNA of our family of companies. Living by these values has made all divisions and team members successful.

Impacting Lives

We focus on serving people daily in our communities, and our services are built around our Christian beliefs. We do this by being authentic and holding ourselves to the highest standards. This creates a legacy of impacting the greatest number of lives for generations to come.

Accountable to High Standards

We value what we offer and how we offer it. Being accountable for our results is done by meeting high standards, driving to be the best, reporting results, and surfacing problems early to solve them as a team.

Meeting Others Needs

We are eager to serve and identify the needs of others. This enthusiasm allows us to find a solution quickly so everyone we interact with is satisfied – including co-workers, employees, and customers.

Passionate About Work

We are inspired and excited each day to provide a welcoming environment and encouragement to those around us. We maintain high-quality standards, display positivity, and sustain a willingness to roll up our sleeves to get the job done right while questioning the status quo.

Customer Centric

We would not exist without our customers, and our goal is to provide the best product, service, and experience to all. Clearly communicating, being ethical, developing relationships, encouraging feedback, and showing appreciation are how it is done.

Our Specialties

Accounting

Administrative

Light Industrial

Warehouse

Manufacturing

Professional

Why Clients and Candidates Say We’re Essential

In an incredibly challenging labor market Essential continues to strive to provide candidates and set realistic expectations on both sides of the relationship. We’ve had a few minor hiccups due to staff turnover and the new billing system, but every issue has been resolved in a timely manner. I appreciate all that the team has […]

Anonymous

Essential checks in regularly with us and thinks outside the box when it comes to current candidates, they have available and the positions we have open. They take the time to know our business and the type of applicants needed to fill the roles. We are extremely happy with our relationship.

Stephanie

Essential Personnel has provided more applicants to me than the other agencies!

Marilyn

Even during very extremely difficult staffing shortages and lack of people wanting to work, Essential does the best job one can expect to provide candidates that fit our open positions.

Anonymous

We have used Essential several times for open positions. We are very pleased with the candidates.

James

I think the staff at the Essential is amazing they’re always so friendly and happy. They give me good people and we appreciate everything they do for us.

Majorie

Even with today’s staffing crisis, the team does their absolute best to send us candidates and remain positive and understanding. They are helpful in giving updates, and following up with staff as needed. We have a great relationship with this agency and we are happy they work with us.

Cat

I had a very good experience as far as issues they always have been resolved in a timely manner. Communication has been great whether it was a good news or bad.

Anonymous

I have always get quick responses from their team as well as quality candidates.

Anonymous

One of the best staffing agencies I’ve worked for. Very friendly and caring staff, with great job placement opportunities!

Mike

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