When the National Security Agency (NSA) or Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) needs technology and business management solutions, they look for prompt solutions from Solvern Innovations. The mid-size tech and business services provider based in Baltimore, Maryland meets those demands with agility, innovation and a deep bench of highly skilled professionals.
Despite the challenging economy, Solvern Innovations’ services are in high demand and the company is in an aggressive growth phase. That means the company must source more skilled professionals with the high level, full scope polygraph security clearance required by most of its clients. Until recently, Solvern Innovations relied on employee referrals and a small job board to find candidates. But the company needed a better – faster – pipeline of qualified prospective employees.
Nine Hires in Four Months
Neal Frick, senior technical recruiter at Solvern Innovations, invited ClearanceJobs to demonstrate the service for the company’s management team. They were sold. Solvern Innovations purchased a subscription in July 2009. Within four months the company had interviewed more than 75 people from the site and hired nine of them. Is Frick sold on the results from ClearanceJobs? “Absolutely,” he says.
Now, ClearanceJobs.com is a key source for Frick. He’s on the site daily searching for cleared IT professionals including database developers, programmers and networking experts, as well as business professionals who can handle training, curriculum development, procurement support, financial analysis and more. “ClearanceJobs has a good blend of skill sets … We’ve had great success finding candidates with more than just IT skills,” notes Frick.
Fresh Resumes Daily
He posts jobs and uses the resume retrieval service, which delivers new resumes that match his specs right to his e-mail box. “The number of fresh candidates on the site is really appealing,” says Frick. “If the timing is right, we can get in touch with people within an hour of when they post their resume. It’s great to be the first company to build a relationship with someone.”
On average, 15 new matching resumes are waiting in Frick’s inbox each morning from ClearanceJobs. When he opens them, Frick knows the candidates will have the security clearance he needs. “Sorting through uncleared candidates on other boards is tedious,” he says. “ClearanceJobs makes it easy to find people with the right clearance. It’s been a huge time saver for us.”
Quick Connection to Passive Candidates
Frick also likes the fact that ClearanceJobs archives resumes until the candidates delete them, which means that the database has a large pool of active – and passive – candidates. “If you can identify someone who put their resume up a few years ago, they may now be considering a move and we might be able to start a dialogue,” explains Frick.
That was the case with a recent hire. The candidate, a contracting specialist, was in the process of transitioning from an intelligence agency to a contract position. Her resume, which had been on the ClearanceJobs.com database for a while, came up in one of Frick’s searches. Her qualifications met Frick’s job requisitions exactly. “We were able to connect with her and convince her to come on board with Solvern Innovations,” says Frick. “It was a big win for us; we’d been trying to fill that position for a long time.”
Time-saving services and qualified candidates coupled with competitive pricing – it adds up to an excellent value, says Frick. “The rates are the same as some of the larger job boards, but ClearanceJobs has twice as many viable candidates… ClearanceJobs pays for itself!”
In November, 2009 Solvern Innovations, Inc. was acquired by Telecommunications Systems.
