Outstanding Accomplishment: Publisher of the leading print publications for the staffing industry. Staffing Industry Report is read regularly by nearly 10,000 key staffing executives, labor and financial analysts, and employment professionals in more than 20 countries

About: Peter Yessne

Peter Yessne is founder and publisher of Staffing Industry Report, a twice-monthly newsletter for and about the U.S. staffing services industry. Now in its thirteenth year, the publication is widely recognized as the key source for timely, objective, and comprehensive trend information, company profiles, executive interviews, market research, and hard news about the staffing services sector of the U.S. economy.

Staffing Industry Report is read regularly by nearly 10,000 key staffing executives, labor and financial analysts, and employment professionals in more than 20 countries. As the industry's print trade publication, SI Report is often quoted as an authoritative source by the U.S. business and popular press, and its market data is used regularly by public companies in SEC filings and other documents. SI Report covers the temporary help, contract technical, professional employer (PEO), HR outsourcing, permanent placement, executive search, e-cruiting, and outplacement business sectors. On the web, go to staffingindustry.com.

Peter Yessne delivers a unique and knowledgeable perspective on the U.S. staffing industry. For twelve years Yessne had direct, hands-on staff and line experience in the office support temporary help and permanent placement business, first as an independent owner of a full service specialty employment services firm, and later as a key corporate executive in the $600 million Adia Services organization (now merged into Adecco). His perspectives on employment services are enhanced by a strong analytical approach, refined during a four-year stint at the Dataquest market research and consulting organization.

As Chairman of Staffing Industry Analysts, Inc. (SIA), Yessne also directs the Staffing Industry Executive Forum, an annual conference for Staffing Industry Report subscribers and other industry executives interested in exploring strategic business issues for staffing firms (coming up March 2003 in New York City). Over the last decade the Executive Forum has become recognized as the industry's executive level trade meeting.

SIA also publishes the Staffing Industry Sourcebook, the Staffing Industry Supplier Directory & Buyer's Guide, and SI Review, a trade magazine featuring "tools and resources for staffing industry professionals." Yessne's firm also publishes the IT Services Business Report newsletter
and sponsors an annual IT Services Business Summit for IT executives.
SIA will sponsor "VMS Decision 2002," a first time vendor-user meeting October 22-23 in Chicago for staffing firms and their VMS suppliers.