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TalentLab is a high-tech recruiting firm dedicated to using our experience and enthusiasm to find the best candidates for your company. Established in 1998, we have ridden the highs and lows of the tech industry and understand the factors that contribute to your company’s hiring ebbs and flows. We are experienced in providing insightful service to a wide range of companies, working with a broad spectrum of products and services. You can be sure that at TalentLab, your needs will be understood and addressed with expertise, resulting in the placement of candidates who will have a positive impact on your company’s growth and value.

WHAT WE DO FOR OUR CLIENTS

We Fully Understand Your Unique Needs

We make it our goal to become thoroughly familiar with each client’s corporate culture and to get to know the technologies and personalities that exist within your company. The more we know about your company, the more effectively we can choose the right technology stars for you. Each company has its own culture, environment and vibe. We only place people who will truly thrive in that setting. There is an extreme benefit to intimately understanding a corporate identity—not only for our clients, but for all parties involved in the hiring process.

We Employ Talented People and Use Efficient Technologies and Techniques

Each member of the TalentLab team has solid training in the search and placement fields, various high tech fields, or an effective combination of both. Through TalentLab University (TLU), our Talent Agents are continually updated with the latest tools and strategies in the recruiting industry. We have the knowledge and experience to fully understand and meet all your requirements. The market maturity on our team allows us to effectively present you with candidates that meet your unique and specific needs.

Many years of research and development have gone into our TalentCentral system. This online client and candidate tracking system enables us to deliver accurate results by identifying and matching the right person with the right opportunity.

The Technology Job Report, a career e-zine sent out to tens of thousands of people who are interested in keeping up to date with what’s going on in the tech sector, is another tool which helps us in our search process. We are also regularly involved in sponsoring key strategic events in the tech industry.

These and other tools help give TalentLab a distinct visibility in the cluttered technology marketplace, which in turn gives us increased leverage with more quality people.

We Enable You to Focus On What You Do Best

We find technology stars. You’re good at developing new, innovative technologies and we’re good at finding amazing people to do it. So while we focus on what we do best, you will be able to focus on what you do best. We strongly believe that as you partner with our expertise for recruitment and certain HR functions, your company will gain a significant advantage in both milestone delivery and overall cost.

We Conduct Comprehensive Candidate Screening

Finding the best talent is not about quantity, it’s about quality. When we perform a search, we provide you with a select group of quality candidates, each one absolutely capable of excelling in the position. Providing a massive quantity of mediocre candidates may seem impressive, but in the long run it is just wasting your time and ours. It is our job to go through the stacks of resumes for you, identifying the gems and presenting you with the best of the best.

Here’s how we set up our short list of stellar candidates:

• Explore All Possible Options
  Relying heavily on our own TalentCentral system, we identify and prioritize individuals to contact about a possible placement. Contact is made on the telephone, in writing and in person to kick-start the process which ultimately leads to the identification of the perfect star. During this phase we engage a large number of people, enabling us to filter through to the best, most capable candidates for in-depth interview.

• Interview Prospective Stars
  It is essential that we personally interview each potential candidate for the positions that our clients are trying to fill. Our interviews are very thorough. We spend large amounts of time trying to understand people holistically, not just how they will function in a specific role. We can then be certain that our candidates are not only technically qualified, but also a perfect fit for our client’s corporate atmosphere. Following the interview, we keep in touch with the candidates, keeping them informed about where they stand in the process. All communication is done with absolute discretion, ensuring that the reputations of all parties remain intact.

• Prepare and Present a Short List of Candidates
  After identifying a potential candidate and getting his or her permission for submittal, we transfer the candidate’s resume and a Scouting Report to our client. The Scouting Report outlines our thoughts and notes about the candidate’s qualifications and professional life, includes a personal life summary, and presents the pros and cons of accepting the candidate. We follow this initial written presentation with additional verbal quantification, either by telephone or during personal meetings with our client. The care with which we conduct this process ensures that we do not waste your valuable time.

• Check References
  We believe that it is essential to confirm our own evaluations by checking with a candidate’s former professional associates. This seems like simple common sense, but it is surprising how often this step is overlooked.

• Coordinate Interview Times and Travel Arrangements with Potential Candidates
  We have a lot of time and interest invested in our TalentLab Stars, so we do all we can to maintain a very open and solid rapport with them, playing the role of a career advisor. We remain deeply involved in the coordination of interviews, travel arrangements and salary negotiations. Often we are able to help solve relocation issues, address family concerns, and advise a candidate about his or her exit from a current job. We feel that dealing with final logistics is a very important part of the placement process and that the value resulting from our varied experience and ability pays off for all involved.

We Manage Your Offers to a Close

If you have ever dealt with the recruiting process from beginning to end, you can appreciate the complicated challenge presented by the offer and acceptance negotiation stage. Now you can relax. TalentLab has years of experience in successfully navigating the offer phase. The time and effort we spend in getting to know our candidates early on, help make this tricky period much more predictable. Combining this with our knowledge of the technology market ensures that you will have a closing process that is as stress-free as possible.

We Maintain a Lifetime Relationship

Once a Star has been hired, we don’t act as if our professional responsibility to our client or the candidate has ended. We actually follow the candidate’s progress by contacting both parties at appropriate times—just to make sure that everything is working out for everyone involved.

“HELP ME, HELP YOU…”

Have you seen the movie Jerry Maguire? Forget the famous “show me the money” line for a second and think about the integrity and vision that Jerry Maguire had. In an industry full of shysters and jerks, Jerry wanted to stand apart and differentiate himself. It hurt at first, but eventually paid off—as integrity always does.

That is exactly what TalentLab is all about.

Like professional athletes looking for a new contract, our candidates are seeking a change in career, company and lifestyle. We are the agents that help them step up the next rung in the ladder. We believe in the people we represent and we stand for their best interests and intrinsic value in the talent market. Our goal and responsibility is to find fruitful opportunities for our candidates that go far beyond what they expect. We want to inspire them to become better, happier, more interesting people and we want to do this with integrity.

This approach gives us an edge on the other end, where our clients are striving to improve their businesses, build their skill diversity and decrease their time to market. Our thriving relationships with amazing candidates are the key to successfully placing people who will positively impact your company’s corporate value.

In addition to our valued relationships is our tangible knowledge of the technology job market. We do our utmost to understand how you make your money and how your workplace culture fits into your financial model so that we can find rock-solid people who will fit into that culture.

We also have the capacity to offer a unique full-service HR program for smaller companies that require a broad range of cost-effective HR services.

OUR SOCIAL CONSCIENCE AND COMPANY CULTURE

There are many success rulers beside the simple bottom line: A client delivering a new product suite on time and on budget; a candidate landing a well-deserved position that challenges and satisfies; a consistently profitable company that never veers from its values are all vibrant examples of success. TalentLab believes that doing well involves more than just our own bottom line and the personal gratification of corporate success. A company’s success is much more fulfilling when it can be shared both locally and globally, which is why we began and continue two specific initiatives:

Giving Back Day, when employees donate up to one day a month to volunteering within the community. TalentLab people have made, and continue to make, a difference within organizations such as Children's Hospital of Easter Ontario, the Elizabeth Fry Society, various children’s camps and high school mentoring.

Charity donations, where a percentage of TalentLab’s profits are given to aid those who are entrenched in third world poverty.

THE FINAL ANALYSIS

At TalentLab, we believe in providing the best, which means that you will receive exceptional service based on a long-term relationship that develops according to your needs. If you are looking for recruitment or HR functions from a specialized, experienced firm, you’ve found them at TalentLab!