A.C.Coy - always on target technical consulting solutions

Challenge: Client utilized over twenty different vendors to support staff augmentation processes. As a result, the Client was unable to fully leverage their spending and negotiate consistent terms across vendors. A.C.Coy was selected to implement our Optisource Web Sourcing Workflow solution. Optisource allowed the Client to directly interact with the A.C.Coy recruiting team and quickly identify three exceptional staff augmentation candidates within a 48 hour time frame. Furthermore, the negotiated A.C.Coy augmentation costs represented a significant financial savings compared to previous outlays. Result: Client retained over 25 new A.C.Coy consultants over a three month period assisting them in reaching several key Information Technology objectives.

Challenge: Client insourced a customer support application and needed to quickly source 10 to 20 professionals to support this new application. A.C.Coy worked closely with the Client to determine appropriate skill and psychological testing which would ensure success within the newly formed support group. A.C.Coy created an initial list of 120 potential candidates then shortlisted into a group of forty to further evaluated. Within two weeks, a group of 12 A.C.Coy support professionals were engaged by the Client. Result: Client was able to inhouse a customer support application without the addition of full time staff within 30 days.

Challenge: Client won a major customer initiative project which required approximately 25 new employees to support. A.C.Coy worked closely with the Client to determine a very specific skills and cost matrix based on a contract to hire solution. A.C.Coy sourced, screened and presented over 70 professionals for contract positions within a six week timeframe. Positions included software engineers, technical trainers, support engineers, graphic designers, business and database analysts. To assist in the assurance of highly qualified individuals, A.C.Coy utilized it's customized technology suite testing. Result: Client was able to engage twenty five new consultants within two months of initial A.C.Coy contact. Furthermore, 90% of the consultants were offered and accepted full time employment at the end of the initial contract period. Client was able to quickly respond to their customer's demands in a cost effective manner.

Challenge: Quickly infuse new technical talent to an existing seasoned group of software engineers. The client had 12 developers working in both Pittsburgh and Los Angeles supporting a financial services application which evolved from Foxbase into Delphi. A complete system rewrite in .net was regarded as critical to the clients long term success. A.C.Coy worked closely with the client and created a comprehensive .net customized technology suite testing (CTST) which it then administered to over 75 potential candidates over a 30 day period. The CTST evaluations were done by A.C.Coy on candidates sourced by the client and even vendor partners. These consistent CTST evaluations allowed the client to streamline the qualified professionals and make sound hiring decisions. Result: Five new software engineers very skilled in .net joined the client in a full time capacity within 30 days.

Challenge: Client needed to hire several key software engineers to replace an existing contractor group which was home based. Furthermore, client did not have office space in which to conduct interviews and legal / human resource expertise inhouse. A.C.Coy identified several strategic employees which were interviewed and screened by the Client President at the A.C.Coy headquarters office in SouthPointe (15 Miles South of Pittsburgh, PA). A.C.Coy provided legal and human resource consulting expertise including sample offers letters, employment contracts and comprehensive salary information. Result: Client moved into new office space with the addition of three software engineer and maintained end user continuity.