Local Market Expertise

It is a mistake to assume IT talent acquisition begins with a job opening. In fact, effective talent attraction strategies are rooted in a comprehensive and realistic view of the local IT market.

Your Local IT Labor Market Expert

Only with insight into where the top IT professionals are, what they earn, when they are available and what it takes to attract and retain them will you capture the attention of top consultants and compel them to work for you rather than your competitors.

We understand that there are many factors driving the supply and demand for top IT professionals in your local labor market. That is why market analytics are an integral and foundational stage of our proprietary Staffing Quality Process®.

Our Perspective

Through our base of internal employees, we speak with 100,000 IT professionals and meet with 10,000 face-to-face every week, providing us one of the largest IT recruiting networks in the world. Our relationships with 81% of the IT workforce, in tandem with our proprietary research and deep local market knowledge of more than 400 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), enable us to offer educated insight into local IT labor market trends. It also positions us to consult with our clients on the most effective talent acquisition strategies—those that will quickly and effectively attract the best IT professionals to fulfill your most hard-to-find skills.

Effective Workforce Planning

As your local IT labor market expert partner, we can do more than just fill your open positions—we can help you with many aspects of workforce planning, including:

  • Reviewing, updating and aligning IT workforce strategy with IT and business goals
  • Conducting comparative delivery model analysis to determine the appropriate workforce models needed to achieve your goals
  • Conducting comparative market analysis so you can consider your resource planning options across multiple markets
  • Performing local industry employment analysis so you know which industries are adding or eliminating jobs in the markets where you do business
  • Analyzing IT skill set employment so you can understand actual and relative measures of local talent supply
  • Providing insight into local and national wages so you can identify opportunities and risks, relative to compensation
  • Identifying IT and business skill gaps by conducting skills inventory
  • Developing needed IT and business skills through education and training
  • Identifying IT project-based workforce needs for the short and long term
  • Determining appropriate IT staffing levels for the short and long term
  • Developing IT talent pipelines and strategies to ensure needs are met
  • Connecting you with other local contacts who have implemented similar technologies so you can learn best practices as you develop your project and resource plans
  • Evaluating your Employee Value Proposition (EVP) to ensure you can effectively attract and retain the top IT professionals
  • 91%
    of IT professionals say they are open to new opportunities, even if they aren't actively looking for a new job.
  • We help you retain your high performers.
  • 48%
    of IT leaders expect their 2013 budget to increase.
  • 59%
    of IT leaders prefer to be able to rely on IT staffing firms for outcomes, not just labor hours.
  • We provide managed, project-based and IT services, in addition to IT staff augmentation services.
  • Very few IT leaders map out their workforce planning strategies over the long term, with less than 20% planning for the next two years and only 6% making plans over the next five years.
  • We ensure you're ready to address your future skill needs.
  • 63%
    of IT leaders reported they would prefer to purchase more services from fewer vendors.
  • We provide managed, project-based and IT services, in addition to IT staff augmentation services.
  • Less than 10%
    of IT leaders say they have a formal workforce planning process in place.
  • We help you build a proactive workforce planning strategy.
  • Less than one-third of IT leaders rate their IT organization's on-the-job training program as excellent or very good.
  • Our contract-to-hire services allow you to see our people perform before hiring them on full-time.
  • As a matter of strategic importance, nearly three out of four IT leaders agree that they must be great at quickly assembling IT teams with the right skills.
  • Our IT Staffing Solutions enable you to build high-performance teams, quickly.
  • IT leaders rank attracting, retaining and developing top talent one of the top challenges in 2013.
  • Our proprietary Staffing Quality Process® gives you the right people, not just the best-looking resumes.
  • 46%
    of IT leaders believe lack of team bandwidth is the largest contributor to an underperforming IT department.
  • Through our suite of services, we can help you achieve your goals─without burning out.
  • Nine out of 10 IT leaders agree that the success of IT projects and initiatives is heavily reliant on the people behind them.
  • We have the best IT professionals on our team.
  • 55%
    of IT leaders indicate their IT department has utilized IT staffing firms for guidance on how to optimize human capital management.
  • Let us help you optimize how you attract, develop and retain IT talent.
  • 68%
    of IT professionals plan to work as a consultant in IT after they retire.
  • We help you manage a multi-generational workforce effectively.
  • 55%
    of IT leaders expect IT staff salaries to increase in 2013.
  • Do you have the resources to meet increasing salary demands?
  • Six out of 10 IT leaders expect that their best staff will leave their company in less than five years.
  • We help you retain your high performers, build succession plans and fill in skill gaps.
  • 95%
    of IT leaders believe IT will have a central role in accomplishing business goals.
  • We help you ensure you have the best people to execute your strategic goals.
  • Nearly 70% of organizations do not have a formalized program to help IT staff understand their business.
  • We build customized onboarding and training programs to boost employee productivity.
  • Nearly 90% of IT leaders say a cultural fit is very important for the success of management and senior-level IT employees.
  • We screen for technical skills, soft skills and business acumen.
  • How will you utilize additional resources?