Software firm finds successful new direction

Geographic Solutions, with 450 employees, has enough work to support 100 more staffers. The rub? Finding those people.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 5:00 a.m. June 17, 2022
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Paul Toomey founded Geographic Solutions in 1992. Today, the company operates in 40 U.S. states and territories and has 450 employees. (Photo by Mark Wemple)
Paul Toomey founded Geographic Solutions in 1992. Today, the company operates in 40 U.S. states and territories and has 450 employees. (Photo by Mark Wemple)
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Geographic Solutions, a Palm Harbor company that’s become a leading provider of job search and training software used by state governments, colleges and universities and correctional facilities nationwide, could be a business school case study in how best-laid plans can drastically change over time.

 

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