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Innovative Buffalo Firm Helping Companies Win the War for Talent
Ask any savvy business owner to name their single most valuable asset and invariably they will tell you it’s their people. The simple fact is that a company is only as good as their human capital. And as competition heats up for an ever-shrinking pool of skilled workers, it’s more important than ever to find and hire the best talent.
As companies expand and adapt to an ever-changing global marketplace, and as boomers race towards retirement without enough skilled employees to take their place, it has become mission-critical for organizations to find and hire the right skilled workers so that they can meet business objectives and remain competitive.
So who do corporations, large and small, turn to ensure they can find the best and brightest talent in this complex, ever-challenging environment? One progressive Buffalo-based company is fast becoming the go-to-guys for organizations that want to keep a competitive edge and win the war for talent.
Paramount Recruiting Partners, LLC is a young, innovative talent acquisition firm leading the way in the new environments. Their clients include many of the leading companies in Western New York and beyond. "Our clients are savvy organizations who understand the dynamics - both short and long term - of the changing landscape in human capital markets," says Jeff Radt, Partner at Paramount Recruiting. "They rely on us to locate the talented and skilled individuals they need to keep their competitive edge."
They do this, Radt says, by melding cutting-edge technologies with good old-fashioned networking skills. It’s been said that recruiting is a network sport and this young firm has found a winning formula. "We’re big believers that to find the best and brightest and match them successfully with the right employer, you have to first and foremost have great relationships on both sides of the equation. We work closely with every client company to understand not only the skills they need, but the type of employee who will best complement their corporate culture. And we work just as diligently at developing and fostering relationships with our contacts of candidates so that we understand where they will best fit in and what type of opportunity will allow them to excel."
"We work in a very competitive profession," says Paul Yuhas, Managing Partner at Paramount. "We believe that a major advantage we have over our competition is our expert knowledge of our clients’ business and our membership in the zenhire network." Yuhas describes
hire as a network of other forward-thinking recruiting firms who work collaboratively to share candidates, client leads and a slew of innovative tools and services that make their firm leaner, meaner and more efficient...and give them a competitive edge.
"As members of the zenhire network, we can rely on the support of our peer members to help us find just the right talent for a project." Yuhas explains that finding top quality candidates on large Internet job sites has become more and more difficult over the years - and corporate clients expect their search partners to find a better quality of candidates who are not often found on the large sites. The term "dumpster diving" is used in recruiting circles to describe scouring the big job boards for resumes. "Our clients expect us to find the most qualified candidates in their industry and it’s very unlikely this caliber of candidate would be found on a big job board."
"However, these high-quality candidates do exist in large numbers online," says Yuhas. "We have a database full of top notch contacts with whom we’ve developed strong relationships and trust. We know the other network members do as well. So, we effectively share our data with each other. Everyone wins. Our clients win because we have access to deep pools of pre-qualified, top notch talent not found on the Internet. Our contacts win because our peer members have access to opportunities beyond our existing client base. And we win because we can deliver top notch passive job seekers to our clients in no time - and our competition doesn’t even know they exist!"
In addition to sharing talent, zenhire network members share access to tools and services typically only available to large firms. "Before joining zenhire, we had limited access to sophisticated tools," tools such as background checking, skills assessment, job simulation instruments and other pre-employment tools that were not easily available to small and mid-sized search firms. "We can now compete on a level playing field with the big boys," says Radt. "We’re able to walk into prospective clients and tell them of all the cutting edge tools we can apply to ensure the perfect match."
"There are back office advantages to belonging to a consortium like zenhire as well. Deep discounts on office supplies, payroll services, low-priced health and life insurance, and many others," Radt says. "All these services allow us to operate more efficiently, save time and money and let us focus our time on what we do best - recruiting."
zenhire CEO Robert Fritzinger says, "We’ve developed a common technology platform for our affiliate members to share, but everything we develop - all the tools and services we assemble, all the vendor partnerships we arrange - are with an eye towards making our members like Paramount Recruiting Partners successful at what they do. Our tagline is ’Built by Recruiters for Recruiters’ and it’s not just a catchy slogan. We here at zenhire live by it."
Paramount’s business is growing by leaps and bounds and they plan to open additional locations throughout the US. "We’ve worked hard to achieve our level of success and we are proud of our reputation in the business," says Yuhas. "With zenhire we’ll take things to new heights."