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Pete: Outstanding. Well, guys we got a great guest with us today. It’s Allison Gwisz. And Allison is a Human Resource Business Partner with Suddath Companies right here in Jacksonville. And Allison, welcome to Hard Work-Ah.
Allison: Thank you so much, Pete. It’s great to be here.
Arren: Yay!
Pete: Good. Glad to have you. Now listen, I want to learn, I think, for our listeners … We want to learn more about Allison and then we want to learn more about Suddath and-
Arren: Yeah. What is that?
Pete: I understand you are a rarity. You’re a Jacksonville native. Is that right?
Allison: I am a Jacksonville native, born and raised.
Pete: Woo-hoo!
Arren: Like me. And, go ahead and tell them which university you attended.
Allison: Go Gators!
Arren: Yes.
Pete: Oh, here we go. Go Gators. Woo-hoo, woo.
Arren: Chomp, chomp, chomp.
Pete: All right. We got the chomp out of the way.
Pete: Allison, I also know a little bit about you too. And I’ve been in staffing for years and years and years. More years than my co-host has been alive. We’ll just throw that out there.
Arren: Probably true.
Pete: But you did what I did for a lot of years, too.
Allison: I did. I was in the staffing industry for quite some time.
Pete: You’ve been a recruiter. Walk us through what you’ve done.
Allison: Oh, let’s see. I started as admin. I was a recruiter. I worked in sales. I did temp staffing. I did-
Arren: Oh my [crosstalk 00:08:00].
Allison: Replacement. I was-
Arren: You sound like a female Pete.
Allison: All right. Well, Pete, you know I got into the industry and you either run like crazy-
Pete: Right.
Allison: Or you stay in forever.
Pete: Yeah. Yeah.
Allison: And I thoroughly enjoyed it. I loved it. I was in it for 13 years and then made a transition over to Suddath.
Pete: You know what we’ve always said? Years in staffing are like dog years. One year is like seven, because it’s hard. I mean, it is a grind, grind, grind. And back in the day, things were different. We didn’t have all that technology that we have now. We’re fortunate to have artificial intelligence and some other things working on behalf of us.
Pete: Before, it was like, you get in the bullpen and you make 125 or 150-
Arren: Oh, my gosh.
Pete: Outbound calls-
Allison: Oh, yeah.
Pete: Every day and this many client visits and this … And it was all these insane metrics every day. So, congratulations for being in 13 years and I also feel bad for you for being in 13 years. I can commiserate.
Pete: Well, tell us a little bit about Suddath.
Allison: Suddath is a family-owned business. Our world headquarters is right here in Jacksonville, Florida.
Arren: Ooh.
Pete: Woo-hoo!
Arren: Bringing in some money.
Allison: We are almost a hundred years old. In fact, next year, 2019, there’s going to be a big celebration here in Jacksonville.
