DENSO International
Hughes Networks Systems
Sierra Wireless
Solute, Inc.
Wavecom
We offer a broader valued-added service to the client. Our contract recruiters have the competence and maturity to be significantly involved in or even manage the entire staffing activity from both a tactical and strategic stand point. This normally provides a better candidate experience and allows the hiring managers to focus on their job responsibilities rather than the administrative details of recruiting. Our sourcers are proficient in internet mining and other networking techniques in order to identify qualified “passive” candidates.
EXAMPLE OF SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION:
DENSO Wireless entered the CDMA handset market in about 1999. They started with a team of 20 people in Carlsbad, CA, and needed to expand this team in a very short period of time in order to compete. They engaged Williams & Sewell HR Consulting as a strategic partner in 1999 to manage their entire staffing effort. We developed their strategies (with budget), established their staffing processes, and executed all of the recruitment. We provided a complete team of on-site recruiters, including a team lead. In 3 years they grew the site to over 250 employees, primarily recruiting highly sought-after technical personnel. They accomplished this despite the fact that DENSO Wireless did not have stock options and were competing for engineers against San Diego CDMA companies such as Qualcomm, Motorola and Nokia.
"In 1999, DENSO began to rapidly expand its CDMA handset development team in support of a contract with a major wireless carrier. Williams & Sewell HR Consulting was brought in to manage the entire recruiting function. Their team of contract technical recruiters was instrumental to the creation of a world class engineering team that delivered several successful products to market."
Roger Berg
Vice President
Wireless Technologies, North America Research Laboratory
DENSO International America, Inc.
Carlsbad, CA
By providing senior contract recruiters with flexible schedules, we supply a consistently high-level recruiting service that adapts to our clients’ business circumstances.
EXAMPLE OF SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION
Hughes Network Systems in San Diego, CA recruiting efforts fluctuate with business demands and are generally low to medium volume. These intermittent staffing needs do not warrant adding a regular full time recruiter. They contracted with Williams & Sewell HR Consulting to provide a senior part-time contract recruiter to manage the process consistently, one who could increase or decrease hours as dictated by the client’s immediate hiring needs.
"Hughes Network Systems is headquartered on the east coast, but has a development engineering team in San Diego. We have utilized the contract recruiting services of Williams & Sewell since 2000. They have been able to provide high quality technical recruiters that really understand our needs. We have had the same recruiter assigned to us on a part-time basis for several years. He has been a reliable and valuable contributor to our San Diego operation."Christine CarstensSr. Manager, EmploymentHughes Network SystemsGermantown, MD
Companies with sporadic or cyclical hiring needs often default to the use of search firms in times of hiring peaks, when they do not have the internal resources available to recruit. To fill single openings a fee of 20 - 30% of the annual salary offered to the candidate can be a reasonable expense. However, in multiple hiring situations the use of agencies can be very expensive. Search firms will push their own candidate to be hired, rather than the best candidate for the client, as this is how they are paid. To protect their interest, they are most likely presenting the same candidate to competing companies. Our goal is to help our clients to objectively hire the best candidate for their situation, regardless of the source of the candidate.
EXAMPLE OF SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION
Sierra Wireless modems and software connect people and systems to mobile broadband networks around the world. They have a diverse product portfolio addressing enterprise, consumer, OEM, M2M and specialized markets, as well as professional services in wireless design, integration and carrier certification. Sierra Wireless’ headquarters are in Richmond, BC, with major facilities in Carlsbad, CA, and Newark, CA. They have had steady growth since 2004, with peaks and valleys of technical hiring. Being a mid-sized company with up & down staffing needs, they did not want to invest in a full-time employee dedicated solely to recruiting. In addition, they did not want to rely on expensive headhunters who are focused on getting their specific candidate hired. They asked Williams & Sewell HR Consulting to provide a contract full cycle recruiting to handle all technical recruiting and be available as needs dictate. We supplied a senior technical contract recruiter with a flexible schedule who could be dedicated to Sierra Wireless either full time or part-time as required. They were extremely pleased with the results.
"Williams & Sewell has been providing Sierra Wireless with a part-time contract technical recruiter since 2004. We have her supporting operations throughout California. I really appreciate having the same person assigned to work with us year after year. She is a talented recruiting professional that understands our needs and our culture. Bill Sewell and Bob Williams also provided an internet sourcing training which turned Web 2 (new trends using the internet) from theory into action. The training helped us develop key contacts and grow our internet recruiting capabilities."Jean Freemanformer Sr. Employment AdvisorSierra WirelessCarlsbad, CA
Smaller companies in a growth mode without adequate human resources programs, processes or staff often find themselves in a bind on several fronts. They may need recruiting assistance, a more structured and trusted performance management system, a formal compensation survey process, upgraded benefits, an employee handbook, management training, harassment training as well as assurance that they are in compliance with state and federal employment laws. Noncompliance by a government contractor may seriously jeopardize current and future contracts. Williams & Sewell HR Consulting provides HR consultants for all these areas including a complete audit of all HR related processes, policies and functions.
EXAMPLE OF SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION:
Solute, Inc. in San Diego, CA provides software, systems, business process engineering, program management and other consulting services to the U.S. government and prime government contractors. In 2008 Solute experienced significant growth and needed to advance our Human Resources function to establish effective and consistent programs for compensation, performance management, compliance and recruiting.
"We engaged Williams & Sewell HR Consulting to assist in developing and implementing these programs and processes. They supplied a highly professional Human Resources Consultant who not only met our needs successfully but also trained one of our own staff members to take over that role. As our growth continued, Williams & Sewell HR Consulting provided an excellent contract recruiter who was able to flex his hours each week to meet our hiring needs. Our experience with Williams & Sewell HR Consulting has been decidedly positive over the course of several years. We consider them a valuable resource and a professional business partner."John Lyons
CEO
Solute, Inc.
San Diego, CA
In meeting or exceeding the client’s expectations we will provide metrics, process improvement as needed, and establish a candidate pipeline to meet immediate and future needs. All candidates surfaced are the proprietary property of our clients. Our contract recruiters are focused solely on the recruiting needs of the client and are not seeking candidates for other clients with similar openings.
EXAMPLE OF SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION:
Wavecom America is located in San Diego, CA. With a sudden upward business trend in 2003, Wavecom had multiple new projects and needed to hire several engineers. They had limited internal recruiting resources and tools as hiring had not been a priority in the last few years. Wavecom management hired Williams & Sewell HR Consulting to provide an on-site full cycle recruiter to not just recruit but help create an efficient recruitment process including metrics, tools and a candidate pool that would serve as a foundation for future hiring endeavors.
"In 2003 Wavecom had an urgent need to fill critical design and development positions in Hardware, Software and RF design engineering as well as test and field support resources. We secured Williams & Sewell HR Consulting to provide a contract recruiter to meet our staffing needs. Their recruiter quickly developed a recruiting strategy, helped to establish & administer an efficient staffing process with metrics and candidate tracking, identified candidates for our openings and brought them on board. As a result of the recruiter’s efforts, all of our staffing needs were met on schedule. We were extremely satisfied with their service and feel we saved thousands of dollars on headhunter fees. In 2004 we had another surge in hiring and again utilized Williams & Sewell HR Consulting. As before, their recruiter filled our openings in a timely and professional manner."Sean Broderickformer VP of EngineeringWavecomSan Diego, CA