Big Picture Consulting provides flexible recruiting services including Engaged Search, On Demand Recruiting and Talent Sourcing (talent pipelining) for hyper growth VC funded tech start-ups, digital advertising agencies and established corporate tech and digital marketing departments. Through our extensive national talent network, we have recruited a broad spectrum of savvy digital marketing industry talent and seasoned technology professionals.

Here's an overview of previous candidate searches:

• Sales/Business Development: VP Sales, Sr. Director Sales, Regional VP, VP Channel Sales, Business Development Director, Online Media Sales Manager, Sr. Account Executive

• Client Management: VP Client Success, Director Account Management, Account Director, SEM Account Manager

• Online Marketing/ Advertising/ Advertising Technology: VP Digital Marketing & Social Media, Director Search Marketing, Director Marketing, Director Direct Response Marketing, Affiliate Marketing Director, Sr. Strategist, Online Media Planner, Online Media Buyer, Digital Ad Ops

• Web Design & Creative Services: Creative Director, Sr. Art Director, UI/ UX Lead, Web Designer, Flash Developer, Content Strategist

• Software Development/ Web Development: CTO, Sr. Technical Architect, Full Stack Engineer, Front End Technologist, Back End Technologist, Team Lead, J2EE and .Net Developers

• Network & Infrastructure: Director Global Security Architecture, Information Security Analyst, Systems Administrator, Network Engineer, Help Desk Analyst, Database Administrators, Sr. Systems Engineer

• Project Management: Director Project Management, Sr. Project Manager, Product Manager, Business Analyst, Sr. QA Engineer, QA Director, QA Analyst, Business Intelligence, Data Analyst, Systems Analyst

 Contact Us Today to schedule a call to discuss your hiring initiatives and learn more about our search process.

Big Picture Consulting leverages a five-step strategy to attract, engage and recruit culturally aligned all-star talent.

1.     Our recruitment process begins by conducting a thorough intake session with your stakeholders to drill down into the specifics of your open position including; the reporting relationships, the short and long-term objectives, required skills, intangibles and subtle attributes you’re seeking in the candidate you want to hire.

Our consultative intake session ensures that we understand your open requirement, how this hire will contribute to your company, the business problems they’ll solve, their career growth path as well as their professional competencies, personal characteristics and leadership qualities you require.

 2.     Next, we’ll write a performance profile, which is a more in-depth and enticing position overview document, that promotes your employment brand and sells your open position as a compelling career opportunity to the candidate by describing the immediate business problems they’ll solve, the impact they'll make in the future and how this position will move them forward in their career.

3.     Develop and implement a targeted talent acquisition strategy, including rolling up our sleeves to source top passive candidates and build a talent pipeline that meets both your IQ requirements (Resume/Skills/Experience), and EQ requirements (Cultural Fit & Emotional Intelligence.

4.     A key differentiator in our process: we leverage the most powerful behavioral science that exists to qualify candidates for cultural fit and enables us to:

• Eliminate bias and subjectivity in the hiring process.

• Measure candidates that fit your team’s subculture

• Compare candidates against each other or against the hiring manager, the team, the high performers, and the ideal profile

• Hire talent for diversity of mind and predictive success.

5.     Each candidate that meets your behavioral criteria is then thoroughly interviewed and screened to ensure they’re a match for your open requirements and corporate culture and presented to your stakeholders with detailed notes.

Based on your feedback, we’ll coordinate candidate interviews with your stakeholders. When you’re ready to hire, we’ll perform background checks, negotiate and extend an employment offer.

Let’s talk. Contact us today to learn more.

What is Engaged Search?

Engaged Search is a cost-effective, efficient recruiting model with the initial payment of the total search fee paid up front to start the candidate search process and engage our services, with the remaining search fee balance due when the hired candidate starts. The initial payment creates a mutual partnership and commitment to fill your open position that gives both of us an incentive to succeed. This is the performance driver that ensures the dedication, focus and accountability to produce results.

Engaged Search is an affordable and compelling alternative to excessive contingency and retainer placement fees. In comparison, through an Engaged Search, we attract, recruit and shortlist all-star culturally aligned talent at a fraction of the cost and save you thousands, compared to traditional search fees.

Why Engaged Search?

When you need to hire critical talent, instead of settling for a contingent search firm there are a few crucial factors to consider when selecting a recruitment search firm:

• How dedicated are they to find the right candidate, that also fits your unique culture?

• What is their accountability to produce results?

• What level of service do they provide?

• How much does their services cost and what value do they provide?

After you’ve given this some careful consideration, Engaged Search is your best choice to fill your open position because it's a cost effective, performance driven recruitment search model that produces higher quality candidates over quantity, with a higher level of service. There’s also the advantage of building a relationship with a committed partner that gives priority to fill your open position.

These are all critical factors in a successful candidate search that also increases the recruitment search firm’s accountability and dedication to qualify and present top candidates to solve your hiring initiatives.

Engaged Search Vs. Contingent:

In contrast, a contingency search firm typically is not fully dedicated to your candidate search and they're not accountable to produce results because there’s no initial payment to start the search, so there isn't a mutual partnership and commitment to fill your open position. As a result, most contingent recruiters will shop resumes that haven’t been thoroughly screened to their clients and they'll usually submit the same candidate to as many companies as possible hoping something sticks. This is a conflict of interest for your hiring objectives and delays your goal to hire the best candidate as soon as possible.

Why work with Big Picture?

In an Engaged Search, we roll up our sleeves to carefully source, screen and present you with a shortlist of fully vetted all-star culturally aligned candidates.

As a key differentiator in our process, we leverage the most powerful behavioral science that exists to qualify candidates for cultural fit. This behavioral data enables us to:

• Measure candidates that fit your team’s subculture

• Compare candidates against each other or against the hiring manager, the team, high performers, and the ideal profile.

• Eliminate bias and subjectivity in the hiring process.

• Hire talent for diversity of mind and predictive success.

The bottom line: 

When you need to hire critical talent, there’s a lot at stake; your company’s direction, your reputation and profitability. This means the job of filling your open position should be done right. 

Recruiting top talent for an open position shouldn’t be taken lightly and you can’t expect a positive outcome with the results you require unless you commit to an Engaged Search recruitment model that creates a mutual partnership with dedicated service and accountability to fill your open position. 

• Are you a start-up, with no dedicated in-house resources to recruit top talent?

• Are you in a growth spurt and need of a steady flow of on target candidates?

• Are you tired of paying excessive recruiting fees?

• Are you having a difficult time recruiting culturally aligned talent?

Do you want to partner with a dedicated search professional that provides superior results and exceptional service at reasonable rate? Big Picture Consulting has you covered and will find right fit, culturally aligned talent for your critical open positions.

Stop paying high recruiting fees. Contact us today to start an Engaged Search.

When you’re in a growth spurt or you have fluctuating hiring and urgently need to hire a steady flow of candidates, On-Demand Recruiting, is a proven and cost-effective hourly contract recruiting solution that will solve your hiring nightmare.

On-Demand Recruiting provides these value-added benefits:

• Partner with your stakeholders and hiring managers as a seamless extension of your internal HR team to perform full life cycle recruiting.

• Execute critical talent acquisition initiatives including; advise and implement targeted recruiting strategies, proactively source talent, write and post compelling job ads, analyze job ad analytics and tweak ads to increase job ad conversions, interview and qualify candidates, suggest hiring recommendations, conduct background checks and extend employment offers.

• Recruit and qualify critical talent for a variety of open positions, for one set rate.

PS: Our On-Demand Recruiting service is available with the flexibility of part time or full hours to augment your internal team and find all-star culturally aligned talent for your critical recruiting needs.

How soon do you need to hire a steady flow of candidates?

Contact us to request more information about our On-Demand Recruiting services.

What is talent sourcing?

Talent sourcing is a vital component of an integrated recruiting strategy to build a robust talent pipeline for current open roles and to get a head start on sourcing talent for forecasted roles. We proactively conduct online candidate research to identify candidates within your parameters that currently work in similar positions, either for your competitors or within your industry that have the prerequisite career experience and skills required to fill an open position. Talent sourcing is performed either as a name generation or candidate development project. 

Name Generation: During a name generation project, in-depth online research is performed to deliver a customized passive candidate list (research report) containing; each candidate’s name, current employer, job title and contact information of potential candidates that currently work in similar positions, either for your competitors or within your industry.

Name generation is an invaluable resource to uncover purple squirrels, that you can use now for your current open positions and again as a short list to kick start a future candidate search.

Candidate Development: In addition to building a list of potential candidates, the recruitment research process is taken one step further…

• Each candidate is called to discuss your open position and are pre-qualified to determine their interest in your career opportunity.

• To conclude the candidate development project, you will receive an enhanced research report containing; each candidate’s name, current employer, job title, contact information and their pre-screen responses.

Our Process:

• To kick off your on-demand talent sourcing project, due diligence is conducted with your stakeholders to identify the skills and subtle attributes you're seeking, determine pre-qualification criteria and ensure we fully understand your open requirement.

• The due diligence assessment also helps to make certain there's a clear understanding of how the candidate you want to hire will contribute to your company, the business problems they’ll solve, their career growth path as well as their professional competencies, personal characteristics and leadership qualities you require.

• At this point, online research is conducted to build a customized talent pipeline of passive candidates who are currently working in similar positions within your industry that match your open requirement.

Benefits of on-demand talent sourcing:

• Cost effective, flexible resource with no long-term commitments

• Customized approach to identify and target hard to find passive candidates

• Research report: This is a value-added resource you will utilize now for your current open position and again as a talent pipeline to jump-start a candidate search for a similar position in the future.

• Time management: We do the time consuming, heavy lifting of conducting candidate research and you’re freed up to do what you do best and focus on moving qualified candidates through your hiring process.

Do you urgently need to build a passive talent pipeline? Contact us today to learn more about talent sourcing.