Continuous Engineering Recruitment

One of the main differences of using an engineering recruitment agency compared to using your company’s internal human resources or corporate recruiters is professional engineering recruiters like Open Systems are continually identifying and cultivating new engineering career talent.

Our engineer recruiters are an integrated part of professional, industry and trade organizations where we meet talent at all career levels for all types of engineers, such as electrical, applications, software, network, civil and manufacturing.

For internal human resources or corporate recruiters, the recruitment process doesn’t begin until positions and budgets are approved. This is a significant disadvantage because it delays the candidate identification process by several weeks.

Recruiters are Ready When You Are

By already having a qualified and varied applicant database, engineering recruiters can quickly move to the qualifying stage of matching engineer candidates to your company’s specific job description in just a matter of days.

Internal hiring processes typically take two months or longer for high-demand fields like engineering. Often, by the time the interview process is ready to start, the candidates have been placed elsewhere. In a competitive career like engineering, immediacy is critical.

Efficiency in Hiring Engineering Candidate

Professional engineering staffing firms like Open Systems have proven recruitment processes that ensure the most efficient use of your hiring manager’s time. Here’s an example of Open Systems’ recruiting process.

This five-step best practice recruiting process all happens BEFORE each candidate is submitted for requisition:

• Skill evaluation
• Reference checks
• Right to represent from the candidate
• Negotiate rate
• Social profile verification

Moving Forward

Recruiting and hiring for technical positions, like engineering, can be a challenging task, especially in today’s competitive job market. One of the best strategies is to align your company with professional recruiters that are an integral part of the engineering profession.

At Open Systems, our senior engineering recruiters are involved participants in the engineering communities. Contact our engineering recruiters today!

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Data Trends to Watch for in 2018

Data Trend # 1: It’s all About Privacy and Data Management

With recent news headlines regarding the misuse and management of data by Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, data privacy has become a considerable concern. Additionally, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) goes into effect on May 25, 2018. The GDPR requires most companies with personal data of persons in the EU to have data privacy officers (DPO.) These DPOs are responsible for the oversight and protection of PII (personally identifiable information) and will become more prevalent as other countries strengthen their privacy regulations.

Data Trend # 2: Using Unstructured Data

Up until recently, unstructured data got lost. This was in large part due to this information being too vast and complicated to process. However, with new tools such as Hadoop Appliance, businesses now have the necessary capabilities to process this unstructured, once lost, data.

Data Trend #3: New Corporate Roles Being Created

The data trend is driving the creation of new corporate positions, such as a Chief Data Officer (CDO) and a Data Curator.

The CDO is a newer C-level role. CDO’s are in charge of creating an organization’s digital strategy. It’s the CDO’s job to oversee the policies and utilization of data within their organizations.

The Data Curator reviews how organizations are using data and what type of analysis is being conducted. Their role is to prevent multiple, similar projects with the same data occurring over several business segments in the same organization.

Data Trend # 4: Data Goes Mobile

Data is everywhere, even on the go. Furthermore, new mobile apps, especially for data practice areas such as Business Intelligence, have grown significantly over the last year. Companies who use mobile data apps get their information in a more timely, organized fashion. Thus, they can harness data and drive results within their organizations more quickly.

Moving Forward

Data is becoming a significant business driver. The ways companies are collecting and using data are changing rapidly. When the time comes to re-think the way your organization uses data or to hire professionals skilled in the art of data, consult the experts at Open Systems. At Open Systems, we have the connections and talent to deliver our clients candidates who can help harness their organization’s data and drive results.

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