Growing recruiting company Zeektek is tripling its space in a move from Granite Bay to a Roseville office building.
The company provides traditional placement for new employees at companies, but the vast majority of its work is providing contract employees to work on specific projects at other companies, Zeektek CEO John Stuart told the Business Journal.
“In technology work today, everything is a project. Companies need a team to complete a project,” said Stuart, who is a 30-year veteran of recruiting.
Zeektek has 25 internal employees, and a current roster of 140 contract workers that it employs working at other companies, he said.
The employees Zeektek places are mostly tech workers and engineers, but it's launching a digital creative marketing specialty to support companies with projects associated with supporting websites and social media.
Zeektek places technology and engineering workers with companies all over the country. Those companies would rather hire a search firm to fill those positions than hire contractors directly, Stuart said. Next year, Zeektek is adding offices in Atlanta, Phoenix and Boston.
Zeektek is in temporary space now in an office building at 400 Sunrise Ave. as it completes tenant improvements in a 3,342-square-foot suite in the same building. It moved from its office space at Sierra College and Douglas boulevards in Granite Bay where it outgrew its space, Stuart said.
The new location is near the Douglas Boulevard offramp at Interstate 80. It offers more convenient access to employees who come from Sacramento and other areas, so they don’t need to travel through all the traffic signals from Sunrise Avenue to Granite Bay.
The company was founded at the end of 2016, and it has seen over 100% revenue growth every year for the past six years, Stuart said.
The company is named for Staurt’s dog, an English yellow Lab named Zeek.
“We were looking for a name that said 'care, kindness, integrity and relationship,'” he said.
The company has extended the dog theme in its internal recognition of employees who meet performance goals. Monthly performers join the “Kennel Club” and annual performers win “Best in Show.”
Zeetek's Sacramento employees mostly work in the office, with some allowances for remote work, Stuart said.
For the best outcomes, teams need to work together in the office, he said. One thing Zeetek did retain from remote working is sharing files online. Where the company used to use whiteboards in the office to track work before the pandemic, it now employs an online file-sharing system. The new office will have digital screens to replace the whiteboards in team settings.
