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Sheboygan Job Agency Reopens Following Fire

Feb 10, 2016

A downtown Sheboygan employment agency has reopened after being displaced for several months following a fire.

QPS Employment Group closed its office at 933 N. Eighth St. after a fire broke out inside a neighboring building on Sept. 27, causing extensive smoke damage to the QPS office.

A week later, the agency and its eight employees moved to a temporary office a few blocks away.

QPS returned to its original location on Jan. 13, and a grand reopening is now slated for Thursday, Feb. 11, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“It’s just good to be back in the old location,” said Mark Milan, QPS marketing director. “The temporary location was fine, but we did lose a lot of our normal walk-in traffic because it was more difficult to find us.”

A neighboring retail shop, JSM Bead Coop, was also displaced by the fire and has yet to reopen. The store has since announced on social media that it’s moving to a new location at 1511 S. 12th St. and hopes to begin business there in spring. The owner couldn’t be reached for comment.

QPS, which is based in Brookfield and opened its Sheboygan branch in 2012, provides temporary, temp-to-hire and direct-hire jobs throughout the county.

Milan estimates that on a given day QPS has about 100 people working in a variety of positions countywide.

“We find people a mix of work, from light industrial to clerical and also some more skilled positions and professional positions,” he said.

Milan said that during Thursday’s reopening event, staff will be holding interviews for positions in packaging, sanitation, fabricating and store remodeling, among others.

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