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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a world-class educational institution whose mission is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. MIT is independent, coeducational and privately endowed. It is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc., through its Commission on Institutions of Higher Education.
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PROVIDING IT CONTRACT-TO-HIRE EXPERTS TO SUPPORT MIT’S ENTERPRISE STUDENT SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS TEAM MAINTAINS HIGH LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE FOR CAMPUS, ENTERPRISE-WIDE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS |
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VALUE ADDED
Continued to meet or exceed client’s expectations for response time by presenting expert IT consultants within 24 hours.
Provided expert IT consultants that consistently met or exceeded project expectations, deadlines.
Satisfied the client’s need for competitive terms of compensation, coming within or below budget.
Enabled client to retain consultants beyond project end dates, seamlessly migrating their talents to complimentary business units.
Successfully filled strategic consultant positions “on-demand,” enabling the client to maintain a professional level of performance without sacrificing downtime to search for a replacement.
Responded rapidly to urgent requests when missing milestones or delivery deadlines were at risk.
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THE CHALLENGE
Similar to its counterparts in the enterprise world, even academic-focused entities where learning, rather than commerce is crucial to success, demand an agile and stable infrastructure plant.
Serving as MIT’s central IT department Information Services and Technology (IS&T) ensures critical day-to-day business operations by working with the Institute’s faculty, students, and staff to maximize the value of information technology to their work.
Categorized as a Directorate within IS&T, Student Administrative Information Services (SAIS) bridges technology and business expertise in diverse functional areas including financial, logistics, and human resources. Its core purpose is to provide outstanding service around high impact, enterprise-wide and departmental business solutions.
Although SAIS relies heavily on its legacy infrastructure solutions, in recent years it has turned its efforts to recruiting experienced web-based database, Java development and data warehousing professionals. This includes IT professionals with applied knowledge of both Hibernate object-relational mapping (ORM) and the Spring Framework, an open source application for the Java platform and .NET framework.
OUR SOLUTION
In selecting candidates for placement that best fit these criteria, Global Technical Talent needed to first identify
IT individuals with top-notch emerging
technologies expertise who also
offered a solid education background
and lifecycle development experience.
In addition, a candidate comfortable
working with MIT’s polyglot of legacy
and emerging IT solutions—was also
desired.
By applying its proven internal
recruitment methodology Global
Technical Talent was able to respond
almost immediately (typically 24 hours)
with three qualified candidates. As part
of this process Global Technical Talent
presented IT experts that, in addition
to highly polished IT skills, were also
able to “fit in” to an education-based
environment where the capacity to
seamlessly navigate competing business
and technical priorities is highly prized.
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POSITIONS FILLED
QA Tester
Business Analyst
Business Systems Analyst
Project Manager
Software Developer (Java, web-based
technology, data warehouse, security,
systems administration)
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To ensure that outcome on a consistent
basis Global Technical Talent presented
MIT only with those potential
contractors that were best suited for
the responsibilities of the intended role.
For example, whether for MIT or other
clients, multiple resumes are never
conveyed to a hiring manager. Rather,
each candidate behind that resume
has discussed the position, in full, with
the Global Technical Talent recruiter
to assess best fit as well as availability
for and interest in the position. As a
result, the ratio of quality candidates
presented to the SAIS hiring manager to
interview, make an offer and ultimately
have that candidate become part of
that team exemplifies Global Technical
Talent’s “best-of-the-best” professional IT
commitment to its clients.
The selection process used to evaluate
and place candidates sometimes results
in additional benefits to clients. In the
case of MIT, for example, a consultant’s
expert IT skills were applied to technical
projects that, although different from
the role for which they were initially
recruited, proved beneficial to the
school’s long-term infrastructure vision.
Global Technical Talent has rapidly
become a valued partner to MIT,
providing on-demand, highly-responsive
recruiting services for SAIS includin
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sourcing a consultant for the Quality
Assurance team in less than one week’s
time from screening to acceptance.
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