Contract Recruiting / HR Consulting Practice

Information Technology professionals have become scarce, mission critical resources that are constantly being approached with new opportunities. In addition, the traditional values associated with employment in technology fields has changed drastically. 

Technology Professional Values

 

Traditional Value

New Value

 Employment as relationship

   »  Employment as transaction

 Experience through promotion

   »  Experience through job-hopping

 Enterprise-based value

   »  Market-based value

 Internally developed innovation

   »  Externally acquired innovation

 On-Site management

   »  Virtual management

Source: The Gartner Group

 

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

  • 50% of the IT workforce are 33 years old or less.

  • 50% have been with their present company less than three years.

  • 41% are currently looking for a job.

WHAT DO THEY WANT?

  • IT professionals want more than salary. They want more control over work environment, content, schedule, performance, and rewards.

DID YOU KNOW?

  • Current IT annual turnover is almost 16%

  • Turnover is four times higher for IT employees with three years or less service.

  • Current demand for IT professionals exceeds supply by 400,000.

  • Average cost for an IT hire represents 100% to 250% of salary.

  • On average, it takes 87 days to fill an IT job.

ACCORDING TO A RECENT SURVEY...

  • More than 90% of companies offer IT professionals some tuition reimbursement

  • 68% offer alternate work schedules

  • 58% allow casual attire

  • 49% make child care referrals

  • 20% conduct annual reviews

Source: Hewitt & Associates

Supply and demand for skilled IT people has changed the act of recruiting from a winnowing down process to one of very quickly identifying, qualifying and acting upon potential candidates.

To be competitive today, companies must strengthen their recruiting functions by creatively improving how they source, attract, qualify, and hire quality personnel. And they must do it efficiently and cost effectively.

LinerGroup specializes in strengthening this critical function. We start by evaluating your strengths and development needs, and then we work with you to design specific actions to improve your effectiveness and help you implement these actions.  We utilize the most advanced web-based recruiting/reporting/performance measuring tools in the industry to track all aspects of the recruiting process, and to ensure a consistent, quality delivery of our services.

At the end of our engagement, you have the option of purchasing our RecruitingCenter™ database and software solution, fully loaded with all of the activity on the candidates that we have worked with during our engagement. We will train your staff in the effective use of the product, and be available for follow-on consulting in the on-going use of this powerful tool. In addition, our Consulting Practice can assist you in the integration of this information into your in-house HR systems.

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