Process

SOTEC Resources, LLC (SOTEC) provides our customers with expert support in staffing projects of any size, anywhere in the world, within very short timeframes. Our recruiting processes ensure we are fully capable of filling both anticipated and unanticipated vacancies rapidly. Ours is a focused, continuous process designed to fill existing, open requisitions and create a pool of pre-qualified and available candidates to fill future openings.

Advanced Sourcing Methodology
Advanced sourcing refers to the collective efforts of SOTEC recruiters to proactively identify and pre-screen a pool of candidates across all labor categories in advance of an actual opening or open staffing requisition. Our advanced sourcing model creates a proactive process through which recruiting is not a reaction to a customer request; rather, all of our recruiters share the responsibility to build and maintain a pool of available, pre-qualified candidates. Maintaining this pool allows SOTEC to respond quickly when staffing requisitions are received.

Targeted Sourcing Methodology
SOTEC employs a targeted sourcing methodology—a dedicated, intensive, and focused effort to identify and screen qualified candidates in response to an open staffing requisition. SOTEC recruiters will look in our prescreened labor pool and use our other recruiting resources for appropriately skilled and available talent. SOTEC understands that finding qualified candidates in specialized fields, such as engineering, may be challenging at times. To help meet all recruiting demands, SOTEC employs the following additional techniques when necessary:

Candidate Referrals. SOTEC relies, in part, on referrals from our employees, customers, and partners. We advertise open positions in SOTEC corporate newsletters and emails, among other forms of communications, to notify our employees, customers, and partners of our current staffing requirements. We offer a referral bonus program to provide a financial reward for referrals that result in a successful placement.

Internet Recruitment. SOTEC receives a growing number of candidates in response to job openings posted online, and we plan to continue our significant investment in web-based recruitment resources. We maintain subscriptions to the largest and most productive Internet recruitment sites and services, including, but not limited to:

Advertising Campaigns. SOTEC operates extensive local and national advertising campaigns to attract qualified applicants—advertising in virtually every major business newspaper around the country, as well as in select trade and technical publications.

Qualifying, Hiring, Orienting, and Placing Candidates
After a SOTEC recruiter identifies a candidate who is qualified to fill an actual or open staffing requisition, he or she begins the selection process. As part of this process, our recruiters coordinate the interview process, complete two reference checks, ensure drug and background checks are completed, and verify the candidate’s education/ certification statements.

Completing the Interview Process. SOTEC’s seasoned recruiting staff uses a multi-step interviewing process to determine candidate suitability for meeting customer requirements—from entry level to highly skilled technical positions—by assessing a candidate’s technical skill set and discussing the applicable compensation, benefits, and work history, as well as any special needs or professional interests. Based on the proven Behavioral-based Recruiting model, we operate under the premise that past behavior predicts future actions. During SOTEC’s interview process, candidates are evaluated for, among many other things, problem-solving/decision-making ability, conflict management philosophy, leadership and communication skills, English fluency, and fit with the customer’s corporate culture. If a candidate is acceptable, our recruiters begin the process of verifying references, employment, and education. All applicants must provide a minimum of two references.  

Processing Candidates. Each candidate who goes through SOTEC’s interview process has a pre-employment file that includes a new hire checklist, used to track the collection and receipt of critical employment and contractual documentation, as well as the candidate’s resume, references checklists, interview notes, and other related material. Completed employment packages are passed to SOTEC management for final selection. Our standard recruiting process requires the review of a minimum of three qualified candidates for every position; however, we reserve the right to waive this requirement to meet critical needs or when seeking personnel with highly specialized skills.

Security Clearance Requirements
SOTEC understands that customers may require their temporary personnel to hold an active clearance. In a environment where requests from other vendors often take weeks, SOTEC delivers a proven ability to secure interim security clearances within an average of five working days of identification of need. Our success is based on techniques derived from years of experience in supporting contracts with clearance requirements. SOTEC collects and submits all required paperwork and forms, and tracks the status of all security clearances. This status information can be provided to our customers upon request.

Guarantee
SOTEC understands that unforeseen circumstances may require a temporary employee to be out on extended leave. In the case where the temporary employee will be out for a planned, determined amount of time, SOTEC will employ provisional staff to ensure our customers receive the continued, quality service they need—with no disruption of support services. As a part of our total customer satisfaction model, SOTEC proactively cross-trains temporary personnel in situations where the work performed is unique in nature and there is advance notice that a temporary employee will be absent for an extended period of time.

Should an unforeseen absence occur, SOTEC will work to immediately backfill the position, if the customer desires us to do so, for the period of time the temporary employee is absent. Our pre-screened labor pool allows us to quickly provide qualified candidates to fill immediate needs.