Finding qualified individuals to fill positions in a start-up can be challenging. The ideal candidate needs to be a team player who is willing to learn and grow as the company and its technology evolves. They must also be self-motivated and willing to work long hours to help the start-up generate revenue and put forth a good product.

Narrowing down thousands of resumes to just a handful of talented applicants and screening each one is a time-consuming endeavor. If a headhunting firm is used to fill openings, the average fees can be over 25 percent of the individual’s first year salary.

TTC offers its members a valuable benefit—a full-service Talent Recruitment Program (TRP) to help companies locate the perfect person for each job. Best of all, members pay nothing extra for the recruiting service outside of membership dues. Our TRP services include technical and university recruiting; posting and screening internet career sites; representing member companies at job fairs; and coordinating internship and co-op programs.

By utilizing the Talent Recruitment Program, members can focus on their core businesses while our highly experienced technical recruiter focuses on selecting quality—not quantity—applicants for start-ups to interview. The program can be tailored to meet specific company needs, ranging from candidate searches to total management of the recruiting cycle.

The TRP helps members to attract technical experts such as design engineers and embedded software specialists. Our pool of candidates includes the 1,000-plus students who graduate from area universities each year with electrical engineering, computer engineering and computer science degrees. We also aggressively recruit professional engineers, especially those with ties to the area.

On average, the TRP helps to place 15 full-time employees with Pennsylvania companies each year. Since the inception of the program in 2002, over 75 positions have been filled—80 percent of which were engineers or technical workers. These positions pay employees a minimum of $70,000 annually—nearly double the mean salary in Pennsylvania. This income level benefits economic growth in the industry as well as the region. It’s crucial for Pennsylvania’s future to not only attract these companies, but also to provide them with the services and tools necessary for them to succeed.

Strategic Focus

• Grow and maintain technology jobs in the region
• Attract the "out-of-towner"

Member Benefits

• Allows a company to focus on their bottom line
• Significantly reduces the recruiting cycle with access to an immediate
  pool of highly qualified potential candidates

Member Services
Talent Identification and Recruitment

• Generating and / or reviewing position descriptions
• Posting jobs on national and regional career sites
• Searching and tracking of candidate databases

Interviewing

• Pre-screening resumes for qualified candidates
• Conducting phone interviews / screening potential candidates
• Coordinating the overall interviewing process

Hiring

• Pre-screening resumes for qualified candidates
• Conducting phone interviews / screening potential candidates
• Coordinating the overall interviewing process

To submit a resume or inquire about careers at TTC member companies, contact:

John Drury, Bluerain Corp
(Consultant - Recruiting Services)
412-201-7433
412-638-0151 Cell
FAX 412-201-3444