Software & IT Recruitment
The key to successful IT recruitment & solid placements are two fold:
1 - ‘Cultural Add’ within your team and organisation
2 - Technical skill set for your specific role
We have achieved great outcomes for over 250 companies in Christchurch & the South Island by identifying & understanding your team culture. What type of candidate profile will best ‘add value’ and become a long-lasting, sustainable team member for you.
We also understand that technical skills, product or process knowledge are very important. But what are the key skills within the role - the 'must haves' and the 'we could do withouts'!?
We often recommend to hire candidates with better ‘cultural add’ and train / fill-in the skill gaps.
Why?
People can improve or learn new technical skills, products & services and process / methodologies with training and the right attitude, application and aptitude.
What you can't learn (or change easily) is personality.
Fortunately we often get both cultural add and technical skill set match
How?
Through expert market knowledge and hard work on your behalf.
IT Recruitment Process
Permanent IT Recruitment
We have a simple approach:
Understand your requirements with regards organisational history, company culture, role specifics, skill set required, recruitment / interviewing process, reason role has come to fruition, remuneration and key selling points
Agree an action plan going forward on how to work best together ie long list, short list, psychometrics (if necessary), ballpark interview dates
We go to market with our large network of IT contacts, advertising and extensive IT candidate database. We long list then interview candidates face-to-face to determine short-list to present to you
Submit pre-qualified short-list candidates for client interview
Client interviews 1st/2nd/3rd, references, offer and appointment is made
Aftercare, while candidate hands in notice and is prepared for new start date with the organisation we help you with the onboarding process. We keep in touch with the candidate & you as the client ensuring a seamless transition
Retained Executive Search & Selection
For more complex & targeted assignments:
Retain Sunstone to advertise / network / search candidates - 1/3 fee up front
Sunstone produces short-list of strongly matched candidates for interview - 1/3 fee on short-list
Appointment of candidate - 1/3 final fee on start date
Contract Software & IT Recruitment
We have a fast & efficient approach to IT Contract Recruitment:
Understand your requirements with regards role/project specific skill set required, and length of assignment, hourly or daily rate budget
Go to our pool of available IT contractors we currently work with and if suitable & available recommend for immediate start
If not - we go to market with our large network of IT contacts, advertising (the Sunstone brand is strong in the market) and extensive IT candidate database. Interview best fit candidates face-to-face to determine short-list to present to you for immediate start & agree charge rate
Client interviews (if necessary), references, offer and placement is made
Once the assignment starts we support our IT contractors keeping in touch regularly, offering them feedback and paying them promptly
Software & IT Consulting
We can also provide software & IT consultants that can come in and spend 1-2 days per week (or when needed) in a more adhoc arrangement in which they can up skill your team on a new technology or framework, or introduce a new methodology or way of working. They will provide support to your team by phone or online around development release cycles for example or periods of change to hand-hold your team to get through the scary parts and help your team succeed.
As a Professional IT Recruitment Agency we maintain public liability insurance cover of $5,000,000 (NZD)
To discuss your permanent, retained executive search or contract IT recruitment requirements Call Paul now on
021 532 008
Talent Management Services
We have a simple approach to People & Culture Consulting:
Work through problem
Agree action plan
Research, advise, provide solution
Facilitate, execute, support
We're happy to meet up, get a feel for your team & organisation - understand the specifics of your issues and solve your problems for you.
We work with start-ups to large organisations and everything in between.
You may need help to facilitate cultural change, engagement or process improvement and enhancement.
You may just require an experienced outsourced People & Culture partner with a steady pair of hands to tidy up some documentation or run over your new People & Culture policies with a fine tooth comb to ensure they're 100% correct.
Or as a start-up to produce a basic People & Culture framework (documentation / process) for on-boarding new hires.
We can meet you off site to ensure confidentiality or on the flip side come in to meet your team and the key players to further drill down and discover key issues or identifiers that may help us solve your problem or facilitate your situation in the best possible way.
We're here to help support you as a partner to facilitate business change and achieve your required goals and outcomes.
How do we go about it...
We offer a range of People & Culture services from extra support when you're totally 'snowed under' to more complex cultural change facilitation.
What you might NEED?
A confidential sounding board
Strategic advice
A hand with problem solving of complex people situations
A blueprint on how to plan your workforce and retain your best talent
How to keep your people engaged in your company
Help setting your remuneration and benefits
A how to guide on managing your people and their performance, whether they're 'stars' or you have challenges
Help screening CVs or writing job descriptions
A full suite of People & Culture policies, either developed, or reviewed to ensure your company is set up for growth
Succession planning – making sure your star performers have a career path that keeps them challenged
Facilitation
Strategic plan development
Implementing a new hiring/recruitment/on-boarding process
Providing facilitation for cultural change
Specific support to manage a poor performer
HR process review and best practice advice
To discuss your People & Culture issues or project call Stephanie now on
021 313 993