In-Source Your IT Applications for Greater Control

The benefits of In-Sourcing were best summed up in a case study of United Parcel Service (UPS) in the bestselling book The World Is Flat, by Thomas Friedman. In-Sourcing involves using internal resources and contractors to complete a project. For instance, if there was a need for technical documentation for an application that was built, a company could contract the work out to an outside party (out sourcing). However, the needs of the business' stakeholders are often better met through the process of In-Sourcing.

The developers of the application are most generally not great writers - they have very different skills than Content Specialists and Technical Writers. The developers of the application and the business sponsors, however best understand how the application is to serve within the business. This is an ideal situation for In-Sourcing. Technical writers are contracted in who have an expertise that the business does not have. Change management experts are contracted in for deployment of the soon to be completed technical documentation and application. The existing staff is included in meetings with the contractors to ensure that the functionality (from the developers) and the intent (from the business sponsors) are accurately met and deployed through the contracted technical writers and change management personnel.

This is classic In-Sourcing, where a project is accomplished in house with close co-operation between contractors, with very specialized talents, and key stakeholders within the business. The end result is a much higher quality deployment, in far less time, and therefore, far more economic.

PB&A, with its extensive knowledge of IT practices and a large network of specialty talent in technology, is ideally suited to provide you with the appropriate team members on a contract basis to help execute your IT projects. Those staffing resources can either be reassigned outside of your organization on project completion - or can be absorbed into your organization in a contract to hire agreement contract. 

This is our home. We know the candidates and businesses in this area. We know both the candidates and the business stakeholders, often personally. Knowing your business and knowing our unique regional assets is a huge benefit to you as our client, and to our candidates.

When you need results, rely on PB&A for your recruiting and staffing needs.

Outsourced IT Staffing

To put it succinctly - outsourcing is when you, as a business, need an IT project done, and for whatever reason, have none of the resources internally to handle the project.

Outsourcing involves the transfer of the management and/or day-to-day execution of an entire business function to an external service provider. The client organization and the supplier enter into a contractual agreement that defines the transferred services. Under the agreement, the supplier acquires the means of production in the form of a transfer of people, (Talents and Technology) assets and other resources from the client. The client agrees to procure the services from the supplier for the term of the contract.

Outsourcing and off-shoring are often used interchangeably despite important differences. Outsourcing involves contracting with a supplier, which may or may not involve some degree of off-shoring. Off-shoring is the transfer of an organizational function to another country, regardless of whether the work is outsourced or stays within the same corporation/company. PB&A recognizes that their are many benefits to off-shoring from taking advantage of time zones for speed of delivery, to cost savings.  However, we have chosen not to participate in off-shoring at this stage, preferring to keep our Talent and Technology resources local, where we can exercise greater control and where our influence and expertise is far stronger.

This is our home. We know the candidates and businesses in this area - many personally. Knowing your business and knowing our unique regional assets is a huge benefit to you as our client, and our candidates. PB&A stands ready to take on all or part of any outsourcing project needs.

When you need results, rely on PB&A for your recruiting and staffing needs.

Permanent Placement IT Staffing

PB&A finds the right person for the job. The PB&A Recruiting Team has your success at heart and we apply this attitude to finding and recruiting the best of the best, for your IT staffing needs.

PB&A works closely with you to understand and identify your specific job requirements, your workplace culture, development methodologies, and HR processes. Pratt, Brown and Associates takes our intimate knowledge of your business needs to seek out active IT professionals that qualify as the most skilled and the best fit for your situation.

We utilize both a highly structured and a sometimes Zen like organic process to source the right candidates. In terms of structured search methodologies we begin in our exhaustive database of every candidate we have ever worked with in the past - starting where we have existing knowledge of candidates. We then turn to these known resources to see if they are active in the market, or have associates and acquaintances active in the market with the skills you need. We also utilize our own on line job board, targeted email marketing, and the more productive National IT online job boards. From an organic perspective we never know exactly where our inquiries take us once we have reached out to an existing candidate and begin following up on the referrals and friends they recommend. We never confine ourselves to just the structured search, as some of the best candidates are those that had no idea they were actually open to a job offer. The best candidates, especially for permanent IT placements, are frequently organically sourced and are not easily found without the exercise of the art and craft of organic searching.

We can make your selection process far easier by presenting fewer, but more highly qualified candidates, fresh in the market place and more likely to accept a job offer for your development job, or other IT job. Using PB&A and our permanent sourcing techniques means that you dramatically increase the percentage of qualified candidates submitted for a particular job assignment.

Advantages of Permanent IT Staffing

• Fill specific, key openings on your staff.

• Tailored to your needs and requirements.

• Acquire technical specialists.

• Solve unique staffing problems.

• Improve workforce quality.

• Immediate productivity.

• Confidential.

• Control costs.

• No risk contingency fee.