Sue Burnett took on the stiff competition from numerous other personnel firms and opened Burnett Personnel Services as a “fee paid” service in 1974. Encouraged by a booming Houston oil and gas industry based economy and operating on a $10,000 loan, Burnett became profitable in the first year. In 1976, Rusty Burnett joined the firm and started the professional division of Burnett. In 1977, Burnett Temporaries was started.

Rusty Burnett developed one of the first personnel industry computer software designed to facilitate the employee/job match and expedite the dispatch process. This copyrighted program catapulted Burnett ahead of its competition. By 1981, Burnett had four offices.

In 1982, 1986, and 1990, three tough recessions impacted Burnett’s business. Credit for Burnett’s survival stems from the insightful decision to shift the emphasis of Burnett’s professional oil and gas permanent division, headed by Rusty Burnett, to temporary clerical staffing.

During the 1986 recession, with half their business lost within six months, the Burnett’s made more critical decisions. Unlike any other permanent placement service, Burnett began selling the concept of “temp-to-hire” as an alternative to companies paying fees.

Hundreds of personnel services did not survive the upheavals in the economic climate, but Burnett rode out the rough storms and emerged as a well-known and respected industry leader.

In 1988, the Burnett PC Learning Center was opened in Houston to provide our corporate staff, placement candidates, temporary employees, and our clients’ staff members access to specialized training on a variety of software programs. In 2005, we changed the name to the Burnett Training Center, expanded the scope of our soft skills workshops and added DISC© management training. In 2008, we closed our training center, shifting our focus to online training and the provision of contract trainers to our client companies.

In 1996, we established an office. In 1997, Burnett became a nationally certified woman owned business, which makes us the perfect diversity vendor partner.

Further expanding our Texas market, we opened an office in El Paso in 1996, in Dallas (Choice Staffing Services) in 1999, and in San Antonio in 2001.

To reflect the increasing diversity of our services, we changed our name to Burnett Staffing Specialists in 2000.

In 2003, Burnett replaced its computer system to provide many new and upgraded features to benefit both our clients and applicants.

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Burnett now operates in five major Texas cities: Austin (1983), Dallas (1999), El Paso (1996), Houston (1974), and San Antonio (2001). In Dallas, we operate as Choice Staffing.

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Burnett currently specializes in Accounting / Procurement, Administrative Support, Clerical / Office Support, Convention Support, Engineering, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal Support, Lite Light Industrial / Manufacturing, Management, Medical Administrative Support, Sales / Marketing, TeleSkills / Call Centers and Training.