Burnett Personnel Services

Burnett Personnel Services is a Staffing Agency in Houston, TX. The company provides direct-hire placement, temp-to-hire, temporary and contract staffing, payrolling, and event and special project staffing. It serves employers and job seekers across a wide range of specialties, including accounting and finance, administrative and clerical, call-center and customer service, convention and event support, engineering, executive and management, human resources, information technology, legal, light industrial, marketing and creative, mortgage and banking, real estate development and property management, sales and business development, and supply chain.

Established in 1974, the firm was founded by Sue Burnett with five employees. It has grown into a nationally certified woman-owned business and the second largest employee-owned staffing and recruiting agency in the United States. The company operates nine offices in six major Texas cities, including Houston, The Woodlands, El Paso, San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas. In Dallas, it operates as Choice Specialists. The leadership team includes Sue Burnett, who serves as President, and Rick Burnett, Senior Vice President, who joined the company in 1982. Alicia De Leon serves as Vice President of Sales and joined in 1999. The management team maintains an average tenure of over 25 years. The firm is listed by Forbes as one of the Top Professional Recruitment Firms and Top Temporary Staffing Agencies in the U.S. It was ranked number one among the largest Houston-area direct hire placement firms and number two among the largest Houston-area temporary staffing firms in January 2026. The Better Business Bureau has honored the company five times with the Pinnacle Award of Excellence.