TriStarr

What TriStarr does

TriStarr (legal entity: TriStarr Services of Pennsylvania, Inc.) is a privately held staffing and recruiting agency founded in 1989 and headquartered at 2201 Oregon Pike, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The firm serves Central Pennsylvania employers and job seekers through temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct hire placements, with dedicated specialties in administrative staffing (accounting assistants, administrative assistants, receptionists, call center, customer service, data entry) and professional staffing (accounting, legal, IT, and human resources). It operates as a boutique regional recruiter for office-professional roles, with geographic reach spanning Lancaster, York, Harrisburg, Reading, Allentown, Bethlehem, Chester County, Lebanon, the Lehigh Valley, and Pittsburgh.

Name

TriStarr

Legal name

TriStarr Services of Pennsylvania, Inc.

Website

https://tristarrjobs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

TriStarr is a privately held, Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based staffing and recruiting firm founded in 1989, providing temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct hire placements in administrative and professional roles (accounting, legal, IT, HR) to Central Pennsylvania employers across roughly ten regional markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Lancaster

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Temporary Staffing Services: Placement of temporary employees to fill short-term needs, seasonal demands, project work, and staff shortages. Revenue generated through markup on employee wages paid by client companies. TriStarr handles payroll, benefits, and compliance for placed temporaries.
2. Temp-to-Hire Staffing: Contract-to-hire placements allowing clients to evaluate candidates on the job before making permanent hiring decisions. Clients can add temporary employees to payroll after three consecutive months with no additional fee, or earlier for a liquidation fee based on hours worked.
3. Direct Hire/Contingency Recruiting: Contingency or retained search basis recruiting for permanent positions. TriStarr identifies, screens, and refers qualified candidates based on evaluation of education, experience, hard and soft skills, salary, and behavioral traits. Provides detailed candidate summaries and assessment data beyond just resumes.
4. HR Consulting Services: Services including behavioral assessments, search committee assistance, payroll management for clients, and HR department support. Revenue generated through consulting fees for these supplementary services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

TriStarr is a Central Pennsylvania staffing and recruiting agency that places temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct hire candidates in administrative, professional, and management roles for employer clients. The firm also provides HR consulting, behavioral assessments, executive search, and payroll administration services. It serves businesses across Lancaster, York, Harrisburg, Reading, Chester County, the Lehigh Valley, and surrounding Central PA markets.

Product overview

TriStarr is a staffing and recruiting firm offering a portfolio of human resources services. Its core offerings include Temporary Staffing, Temporary-to-Hire Staffing, and Direct Hire Recruiting, supported by specialized Administrative Staffing and Professional Staffing divisions covering accounting, legal, IT, and human resources roles. The services are delivered as interconnected modules: the staffing services provide the workforce solutions while Recruiting Services and Human Resources Consulting serve as advisory add-ons. Additional value-add modules include DISC Assessments for candidate evaluation, the Good People Guarantee for quality assurance, and Payroll Services for client administration. The firm also provides specialized executive search capabilities for finance, accounting, HR, operations, and selective IT leadership roles.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Temporary Staffing Flexible short-term staffing placements for employers needing to address staff shortages, seasonal demand, or project deadlines; TriStarr handles payroll, benefits, and compliance for placed temporaries.
• Temporary-to-Hire Staffing Contract-to-hire arrangement that lets employers evaluate candidates on the job before converting them to full-time status without an additional placement fee after three consecutive months (liquidation fee applies for earlier conversion).
• Direct Hire Recruiting Permanent placement recruiting on contingency or retained search basis, evaluating candidates on education, experience, hard and soft skills, salary, and behavioral traits, and providing detailed candidate summaries and assessment data beyond resumes.
• Professional Staffing Staffing services for accounting, legal, IT, and human resources roles, plus project professionals and management-level positions in finance, technology, HR, marketing, sales, operations, plant management, and quality control.
• Administrative Staffing Administrative staffing covering accounting assistants, administrative assistants, receptionists, file clerks, customer service representatives, call center representatives, and executive assistants.
• Human Resources Consulting HR consulting services including behavioral assessments, search committee assistance and support, and supplemental HR services for organizations needing specialized HR expertise.
• Payroll Services Payroll processing services provided to clients, handling payroll administration for several client organizations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces turnover by up to 40% compared to traditional hiring approaches
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• County of LancasterminorOthers · 1 March 2021Collaborated with the County of Lancaster during the COVID-19 pandemic to support the Lancaster Community Vaccine Center (CVC), rapidly recruiting and managing over 1,000 employees to support vaccination efforts.
• Penn Medicine LG HealthminorOthers · 1 March 2021Partnered with Penn Medicine LG Health as part of the Lancaster Community Vaccine Center collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic to efficiently deliver vaccines to the community.
• Rock LititzminorOthers · 1 March 2021Collaborated with Rock Lititz as part of the Lancaster Community Vaccine Center partnership to support large-scale COVID-19 vaccination operations in Spring 2021.
• American Staffing AssociationminorOthersIndustry association providing research, certification (CSP - Certified Staffing Professional), and best practices guidance. TriStarr's team includes CSP-certified professionals.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• PrideStaff: Staffing company with a similar office-based service model providing administrative, professional, and industrial placements through locally owned and operated offices.
• Robert Half International: National professional staffing leader with direct overlap in administrative, accounting/finance, legal, HR, and IT placements — the same verticals TriStarr targets, but at vastly larger national scale.
• Express Employment Professionals: Franchised staffing firm operating a local-office service model very similar to TriStarr, placing administrative, professional, and commercial candidates across U.S. and Canadian markets.
• AppleOne Employment Services: Office-professional and clerical staffing firm with a comparable menu of temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct-hire services, plus HR consulting add-ons targeting SMB employers.
• Spherion: Office-services staffing franchise with a similar local-office go-to-market, providing administrative, professional, and light-industrial placements to mid-market employers.
• Beacon Hill Staffing Group: Specialized professional staffing firm with divisions in accounting/finance, HR, legal, and technology — closely mirroring TriStarr's professional-staffing verticals at a larger scale.

Broad incumbents

• Adecco Group: Global staffing leader offering the same temp, temp-to-hire, and direct-hire services as TriStarr, plus a much broader portfolio including workforce solutions and MSP/RPO offerings.
• Kelly Services: Global staffing and workforce-solutions provider with overlapping administrative, professional, and HR-staffing services, plus a much larger specialty footprint in education and science.
• ManpowerGroup: One of the largest global staffing firms, providing temporary, permanent, and RPO services across all the same verticals TriStarr serves, but at a multinational scale.
• Randstad: Global staffing and HR services major competing in administrative, professional, and HR consulting categories, with significantly greater technology investment and geographic reach than TriStarr.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/TriStarrStaffing

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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