Why is diversity a crucial component of your recruitment strategy?

1. More diverse employees can better represent the wants and needs of your customers: Your customers want to know that your business and your employees understand them and their wants and needs. One of the best ways to do this is to actively recruit diverse employees and make sure your staff is made up of people with different backgrounds from age to race to education.
2. Diversity gives more perspectives for better ideas and problem solving: If decision makers all have the same background and similar experiences, it increases the risk for businesses becoming “echo chambers” where all ideas are very similar. Without some risk-taking and outsider creativity, it’s easy for businesses to stagnate and even digress. A more diverse workforce helps employers leverage a wide range of ideas and experiences for better ideation and progress.
3. Employees want to work in diverse environments: The job talent market is becoming increasingly competitive. In this candidates’ market, more job seekers are proactively seeking out companies that allow them to celebrate differences. Smart job seekers know that too much of the same thing is not only boring but dangerous – fresh ideas and different perspectives are important for progress and growth, both personally and professionally and for both individuals and companies.
4. Better business reputation: When a community knows that a business has a sincere commitment to diversity and inclusion, you’re more likely to have a higher credibility with customers as a business with integrity and reliability. This helps drive up both employee and customer attraction and retention.

Open Systems Can Help Shape Your Hiring Strategy

If you’re looking to hire the best talent from a wide range of qualified candidates, give our team a call. Our experts have years of experience in matching the right technical talent for your open positions to help support your business and better meet your goals. Let us help you and your company today.

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Technical Recruiting Experience

OSI has over 20 years of experience providing information technology staffing solutions and services to mid to large-size companies throughout the United States. With a focused specialty in recruiting top talent in information technology and engineering disciplines, OSI can find you the experienced technical talent that is ready to take their next career step.

OSI Return on Investment

For employers that partner with OSI for engineering, information technology or military/veteran staffing services we can provide you with the talent your organization needs to:

• Shorten your search
• Increase operational efficiency
• Meet project deadlines
• Take on new challenges and prepare for growth
• Maximize your bottom line
• Staff augmentation for upgrades, deployment, and migrations

Technical Screening

OSI’s technical recruiting experts are experienced in technical screening, candidate sourcing, and behavioral interviewing techniques. With OSI, there is a proven, 5-Step Recruitment Process that is used to find top talent faster. OSI recruiters focus on providing candidates who match your technical requirements and fit seamlessly into your company culture.

For more than two decades, OSI has been a staffing leader for developing and employing the latest technology and hiring and recruitment methodologies.

OSI’s Breadth of Services

At OSI, we are more than a technical staffing agency. We provide workforce solutions powered by MSP and VMS offerings. Our expertise, developed over 20 years of experience in talent and workforce management, enables us to provide custom MSP/VMS workforce solutions.

OSI – Delivers the Best Technical Talent

At OSI, we transform the way your organization operates by quickly acquiring the talent your business needs. Our experienced recruiters have years of experience and a vast network of active candidates, we find motivated and experienced technical talent in:

• Engineers (Military and Non-Military)
• IT Professionals
• Technicians
• Scientific Professionals

Connect with OSI Today, For Better Recruitment Tomorrow!

When OSI manages your technical recruitment, you can focus on the business needs that help your company grow. Are you ready to learn how OSI can help your company hire better talent faster? Then reach out to one of our experienced recruiters.

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On the people side of project management, the assistance of a staffing agency can quickly help you meet project deadlines. Here’s a why a staffing agency will help you complete projects on time.

Quickly Augment your Team

How companies view and utilize a contingent workforce is quickly changing. Temporary workers have always been a contributing factor to many companies’ growth, especially with seasonality spikes or one-off projects. But now, contingent work is a vital component of a company’s’ talent. According to Mercer, 93% of businesses are considering making structural workforce changes within two years.

When considering permanent placement versus short- and long-term contract workers, first review your company’s goals, and think about what work is needed to achieve them. What type of talent — full-time employees, part-time employees, or contingent workers — is best suited for each task?

Recruiting a contingent workforce is a specialized area and is highly advisable to only work with experienced recruiting agencies that specialize in short- or long- term contract work in the technical professions you need. A staffing agency will also have a database of qualified applicants to help your company quickly find the candidates with the skill set your project demands.

A recruiting agency can work with you to create a consistent and compliant contingent workforce process and eliminate employment risks to the organization.

Finding Specialized Skills

Often new business initiatives such as migrating to cloud services, implementing a customer relationship management (CRM) system, or setting up new production lines with robotic equipment calls for the role of a specialist.

These specialized engineers and implementation managers are very much like the superhero that flies in to save the day and then flies back out. Their skills are highly specialized and extremely valued – and incredibly difficult to find.

Working with a staffing agency is the only realistic way to quickly find a specialized program manager, especially for project or contract work. A staffing agency is already connected to these professionals and they know the motivators that get them to sign onto projects.

Moving Forward

As your company starts planning for its upcoming projects, reach out to OSI to consult on the best workforce solution for your project. Whether it be permanent, short- or long-term contract work or anything in between, Open Systems will streamline the hiring process, allowing your company to work on its growth. Give us a call today.

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At Open Systems (OSI), our company differentiator is our recruiting methodology and efficient process. With over 20 years experience in recruiting, our senior recruiting advisors are integrated members of the industries they place in.

We help our clients get top talent faster through our proven process, here’s why clients and candidates win when partnering with us.

OSI Certified 5-Step Recruitment Process

With OSI as your technical recruiting agency, we have a proven method of finding top talent faster, we will only present to your organization 100 percent vetted candidates.
Our candidate validation includes:

1. Skill evaluation
2. Reference checks
3. Right to represent
4. Negotiated salary rate
5. Social profile verification

A Human Approach With a Technical Twist

We continually recruit top talent in the fields of information technology, engineering, and technical/technician. Our electrical, IT and technical recruiters are integrated and involved in these fields and the industries that demand top talent.

OSI also uses multiple solutions based on technology, job boards, and artificial intelligence to reach a wide range of candidates in various career levels and industries. Here are a few of the technologies we employ:

1. Resume Parsing
2. Cognitive Computing
3. Artificial  Intelligence (AI)
4. Social Recruiting
5. Handshake (aka Human Intelligence)

Partners for Growth

With OSI as your company’s technical recruiting agency, you will be able to quickly scale your business operations to meet hiring demands, whether it be for staff augmentation, contingent workers or hard to find, permanent placement for top talent.

When OSI manages your recruitment, you can focus on the business needs that help your company grow. We focus on specific areas and industries to ensure each of our clients receives expert advice.

Are you ready to learn how OSI can help your company hire better talent faster? Then reach out to one of our experienced recruiters.

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The fear of making a bad hire keeps most managers up at night. A bad hire is emotionally draining, costly and can affect employee morale. Here are a few ways to alleviate the stress of hiring within your organization.

1. Partner up With a Staffing Agency

We are in one of the tightest job markets of modern times. If your company is seeking IT or engineering candidates, the job market is even more scarce; qualified IT and engineering candidates know this and are vetting their options and comparing their opportunities.

By aligning with a professional recruiter you can expedite your recruiting process. At Open Systems (OSI), our recruiting process assures that you will be interviewing only qualified candidates that meet your salary range and fit into your company culture.

2. Check Them Out

Reference checks are not an outdated process. Upon request OSI check references, along with social media profile verification. This process will help prevent those candidates that stretch the truth from infiltrating your company.

A properly conducted reference check takes experience, it’s a combination of detective work and psychologist. You want more than just verification of dates and job titles, you want to ensure the experience on their resume produced real, actionable results.

3. Skill Evaluation

Technical recruiting is a specialized niche in the staffing industry. When performing a skills assessment for professionals in information technology (IT) or engineering it critical their experience matches your company’s needs.

There are many ways to conduct a skill evaluation, some companies are using online testing, while other companies have the hiring manager design a project/task to complete. Online test taking is not reliable and having your in-house team develop and evaluate a skills test is time-consuming.

There is a better approach, a professional technical recruiter can develop, conduct and assess the skills assessment for you. For example, at OSI, this is part of our 5 Step OSI Recruiting Process.

Stress Free Hiring

By using a proven recruiting process model, you take the stress and guesswork out of the hiring process. This scientific method allows for repeatable results for finding top talent at your company.

Moving Forward

Luckily, you don’t have to invent a recruiting process on your own. OSI has developed a certified process for recruiting engineering, IT and technical candidates that produce top level, qualified candidates.

Learn more about OSI’s  5 Step Recruiting Process and how it can benefit your company.

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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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