Providing Businesses that want to Prosper with People who want to succeed.

Joanne Peters founded Peters Personnel in 1985. She has worked in the Placement Industry in the Metro Omaha area since 1976. Peters Personnel specializes in Placing Candidates in the Legal, Banking, Insurance, Office Support, Secretarial, Customer Service and Accounting Fields.

Peters Personnel does not charge the candidate a fee. Fees, which are paid by the Employer, are 10% of the annual starting salary. An unconditional 90-day guarantee and a no-interest, six-month payment plan for those companies who choose that option, are offered.

Joanne Peters received her Certified Personnel Consultant designation in 1978. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa in 1970 with a degree in Speech and Drama. She taught high school in Charter Oak, Iowa for five years before moving to Council Bluffs and entering the Placement Business. She worked for Midtown Personnel from 1976 until she started Peters Personnel in Council Bluffs in 1985. Later in 1992, the office was moved to Omaha.

Peters has always been active in a number of organizations and does a good deal of volunteer work for the community. She has the honor of being one of the first women to be inducted into Rotary, having joined Council Bluffs Morning Rotary in June 1987. She is currently Community Service Chair for District 5650 and very active in Suburban Rotary. She has received International recognition from Rotary for her work on the Family of Rotary Committee and her committee has received Rotary District awards in Literacy, Community Service and best Club Project for the Adopt a School project. For over twenty years she has been involved with her Industry Associations both on a State and National level having held nearly every office for the State Association. She is currently serving as President of the Nebraska Association of Personnel Consultants.