Professional Alternatives

Professional Alternatives is a staffing agency and search firm founded in 1998. It offers direct-hire recruiting, contract and temporary staffing, executive search and payroll management, and says it combines technology with its recruiters' experience.

Its recruiters work in specialist groups. Professional search fills roles in marketing, accounting, HR, real estate, sales and finance. Other groups cover legal services, support services (customer service and office staffing), title and mortgage lending, banking, energy and finance, credit and risk management, accounting and finance, and energy and commodities. The credit and risk group fills full-time, temporary and temp-to-hire roles.

The payroll service is aimed at companies that keep seasonal employees, part-time employees or 1099 independent contractors on the payroll.