Consulting Services SVAM International has the strategic vision, management, recruiting infrastructure, and most importantly, hundreds of experienced technology consultants. Technology staffing requirements at Fortune 1000 and mid-market organizations are in a state of flux. Systems development, network architecture, and communications standards are changing on a daily basis. Furthermore, in a volatile economy, the challenge to find qualified consultants needed to meet deadlines, only becomes more difficult. Anticipating Client Demand At SVAM, recruiting the consultants your organization needs, begins even before you talk to us. It starts with our stringent recruiting and screening process. We monitor trends in the information technology industry to predict client demand for consultants with specific technical capabilities. SVAM is constantly looking for candidates with business experience that match their technical expertise. All of our consultants have engineering degrees and at least three years of relevant work experience. By maintaining a large talent-pool that reflects industry trends, we are able to meet even the most extreme demands of our clients. This also gives us the ability to fulfill your requirements without long lead times. To ensure that we recruit the consultants that your company needs today, next month and the year after, SVAM strives to keep the communication channels wide open. In addition to scheduled status meetings, we constantly monitor project developments and consultant activities, enabling us to quickly respond to any micro or macro changes at your company. In an economy as dynamic as this one, your organization cannot afford to be limited by the reaction time of your staffing partner. Consultant Management There are several consultant management techniques to ensure the highest quality services for your company. We have the ability to build in compensation incentives for consultants, based upon their contribution to specific project goals and milestones. We conduct regular and spot employee appraisals, which compare actual status to performance targets and employees benchmarks suggested by the clients. We conduct regular and spot employee appraisals, which compare actual status to performance targets and employees benchmarks suggested by the clients. We encourage completion of customer satisfaction surveys that ensure that the SVAM consultant meets your expectations. Right Match ™ It all starts with the requisition. While many clients are very careful how they describe a specific job requisition, SVAM has found that completing a structured and formal requisition jointly with the hiring manager, is the best way to ensure the right match. Understanding project details including internal milestones, business impact, mission criticality, and project dependents and precedents, greatly enhances our ability to provide the right talent for the job. Furthermore, if we are able to communicate the true importance and scope of the job (making sure to act within your firms confidentiality rules), we can better manage your expectations of the consultant's performance from the very beginning. SVAM consultants must conform to your corporate culture. We strive to understand your organization’s particular hiring and ethics policies and incorporate them into psychological screening and ethics training. When necessary, we work with Industrial Psychologists and Ethics Trainers to review our own hiring policies and conduct spot reviews of consultants whether they’re on assignment or between projects. Extending The Reach Well before SVAM resorts to placing advertisements, we are able to leverage relationships with our tightly knit community of technology staffing companies, to help find the appropriate candidate. Also, SVAM has sophisticated international recruitment channels. In the event that your company needs to recruit technology consultants for very large projects, SVAM manages mass recruitment campaigns, including on-the-spot technical evaluations and in person interviews. Since 1998, SVAM maintains a wholly-owned subsidiary in Delhi, India. This facility is staffed to provide in-country recruiting, remote development and technical support services. siForce ™ In order to help organizations more quickly respond to business challenges, SVAM has worked with several of its major clients to formulate its siForce offering. siForce starts with analyzing the project requirement in order to develop a team specification. This is essential when you need project managers/leaders, developers, DBAs, and network engineers all working together. These SWAT teams are deployed on a consulting basis with project managers who have leadership experience commensurate with their technical skills. Training & Education SVAM provides the resources, time, and funds for continuing education and professional certification to help each consultant stay current in their particular area of expertise. Additionally, for core technology products from vendors such as Microsoft, SVAM provides formal training and continuing education sessions at its headquarters.