| Matching talent with opportunity!
The human workforce is the single most important resource of an organization. To reach the best resources in your industry, it is imperative that the people representing your company clearly understand your needs, constantly monitor the employment climate of your industry, and employ cutting edge processes and technology to quickly locate and secure top resources. Whether you’re staffing for niche skills, employee vacancies, special projects, or peak workloads, The Agate Group can provide the ideal temporary or permanent workforce solution to keep your business running smoothly.
Our comprehensive range of workforce solutions and staffing services to meet the needs of today’s dynamic business environments. Our services include:
Total Performance Organization Development
Our OD Solutions utilize systematic strategies and approaches to enhance organizational productivity and individual well being. TAG’s OD Solutions are either held as workshop trainings or consultation services to meet a defined goal. Some of our team’s specialties include:
- Planning and Strategy
- Competency Models
- Team Building / Inclusion / Diversityo
- Process Consulting
Contract Staffing / Consulting / Staff Augmentation
Our Contract Staffing Services or Staff Augmentation delivery focus on helping clients fill “interim” requirements in specialized disciplines as diverse as accounting, information technology, engineering, legal and senior executives utilizing the same quality recruiting techniques utilized in our permanent search process.
Interim Contract Services can offer a number of benefits:
- Immediate availability for short term projects or absences
- Bridge specialty skills gap during permanent search process or processing of large, technically complex projects may require expertise beyond that of regular staff.
- Audition prospective permanent talent
- Respond more rapidly to changing markets
- Provides alternatives with hiring freezes or tight budgets- Knowledge transfer and training for current staff while receiving production
- Test new positions
- Easier to walk away
- Flexibility
- Cost savings
Contingency Based Search:
The Contingency Base Search provides a full-range recruiting service from candidate identification through offer negotiation. Only when an offer is made and accepted is a fee incurred. The fee is based on a percentage of the candidate’s first year’s annual compensation. Many companies not only use the contingency method to fill current vacancies, but to also keep them abreast of talented personnel providing a dynamic method to obtain key talent in today’s competitive marketplace. Successful companies proactively hire top performers as they surface, which allows the opportunity them to surpass their competition.
Retainer Based Search:
There may be times when it is more appropriate for us to perform our services as a Retainer Based Search. Many companies select a retainer-based search when the need is particularly time-sensitive, or when they have exhausted all other means of recruiting for a position. Typically, this is when a position is difficult to fill, when the position is an executive level strategic hire, when it involves an unusual requirement, or some other challenging situation. Retained search fees are also based on a percentage of the estimated first year’s annual compensation. However, a portion of the fee is paid at the beginning of the search to allow us to provide additional dedicated recruiting services. Upon an offer’s acceptance, the remaining portion of the fee is incurred.
Hourly Recruiting Services:
Hourly recruiting provides the same quality services as performed in our Contingency and Retainer Based recruiting processes, from identifying the candidates through the negotiation and acceptance of your offer. Instead of a percentage fee, client’s pay only for the actual hours spent providing services on a specific project. Besides the cash flow benefit of reducing the fees in this manner, our Hourly Based recruiting services allow to match the recruiting needs to their budget and goals.
Time spent working on staffing issues instead of production can easily result in lost opportunities and missed deadlines. It is costly to take your staff or yourself away from your CORE BUSINESS to handle personnel placements. More companies are turning to outsourcing these types of tasks because they can be done at a lower cost, faster, and better by a firm that performs the function as their CORE BUSINESS.
Candidate Sourcing:
If you would like to have potential high quality candidates identified, but prefer to conduct the recruiting process in-house, we will perform strategic sourcing services to identify and explore potential candidates.
Local Presence / Global Focus – With combined branch offices, and our unique remote office model allows The Agate Group to have intimate understanding of local markets, and a unified focus on IT to help our clients maintain their competitive advantage. Our Team leverages in branch offices and remote offices to achieve 24×7 recruitment. We quickly identify, qualify and present IT candidates to your company to help you lower costs, increase efficiency and expand growth. We also frequently offer flexible, competitive pricing to save you money.
Pre-qualified Candidates typically within 24 Hours – Recruiters identify a candidate we’ve already interviewed who has the right skills verified by testing, the appropriate vertical industry experience and immediate availability.
Client Dedicated Recruiting Managers – Single Point of Contact (SPOC) Managers enforce compliance to your specific rules of engagement. TAG Recruiting Managers are experienced meeting SLAS and Report Cards, and they offer Full Life Cycle Recruiting. Unlike our competition who gathers a job order, and hit the job boards on keyword matches, our team completes a comprehensive research on client environment, culture, and your company’s market position to help us best market your company to our candidates and help you find the most suitable match for your opportunity. We believe that servicing our clients means that we treat this process as if our recruiters were hiring candidates for our company!
Proven VMS Methodology and Focus – Our team has extensive expertise with VMS systems (Beeline, CHIMES, Fieldglass, Peopleclick and IQNavigator) and working with vendor managers. Our team provides experienced support for preferred vendor programs, VMS accounts and large volume requirements.
Successful Track Record – Our repeatable methods and processes result in industry leading skill availability, quality and response times. The Agate Group meets your defined service levels through metrics-driven management including requirement coverage, submittal and interview ratios, start ratios, retention and compliance.
Foundation of “old school” recruiting – REFERRALS – Last but not least, TAG prides itself on our core foundation of our business, and that’s the development of relationships. From clients to our candidates, our success has been backed by “home grown” referrals from our clientele base to our prospect candidates. In addition to ongoing relationships we’ve maintained and continue to develop, TAG offers one of the most lucrative referral bonuses in the industry that leverages our ability to tap into some passive job seekers. We also sponsor various business and IT workshops which attract specialized professionals that allow us to be in the forefront of their attention.
Our Services and Flexible Options
Every workforce’s goals vary, therefore The Agate Group’s (“TAG”) clients can choose from our various scope of individual services, or engage us as a full-service, vendor-neutral Managed Services Provider (MSP). In this enterprise based model, we serve as a single point-of-contact and accountability for all your suppliers, hiring managers and contractors. This could be customizable for our clients to choose what part of the process they want to manage and handle. From technology implementation, to supplier sourcing, to supply chain performance management, we expertly and seamlessly handle your entire contingent workforce program. We can also establish a primary staffing supplier model for our clients and work with our affiliated recruiting companies. Whatever your choice, we’re on your team and work with you to develop the best program design to support your business.
Bottom-Line Benefits
- Reduced cost on MSP or VMS software or VMS monthly fees to client. With TAG’s MSP Solution, we implement and customize the software and provide training for your company and client managers
- Significant bottom line savings- by aligning rate cards, we allow a process for our clients to gain pricing competitive edge
- 100% Performance Improvement – through program service level agreements and supplier performance measurement and management
- Dramatic soft cost reductions – through productivity improvements, process efficiency, and freeing up resources currently devoted to contingent workforce management
- Improved program productivity – including better fulfillment rates and cycle times and simplified processes for you and your suppliers
- Improved worker productivity – because the most qualified people are on the job and processes for time and expense
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