HS: UNICON offers group training to provide opportunities for employees to enhance their professional skills. The program includes workshops or seminars sponsored by UNICON for all employees, dependent upon work location. All UNICON employees are encouraged to participate.

We also offer up to $2000 per year in educational assistance reimbursement for outside workshops, seminars, professional membership fees, certifications, for-credit courses, books, and other education-related costs. This educational assistance program is intended to facilitate further enhancement of our employees’ performance and professional abilities.

MWJ: Who do you choose to handle training? Is it outsourced or done in-house? If it is in-house, who is responsible for the training?

HS: Both. In-house is performed by seasoned developers and professionals on staff.

MWJ: What methods are used to track resumes? Can you recite what sources are working for you, and which are not?

HS: We use a proprietary applicant tracking system to maintain records of each candidate including resumes. We utilize a variety of sources. Being in the IT industry, Dice seems to be very productive as well as Craigslist. We do utilize Monster and a few obscure online resources. In addition, a few of our recruiters are taking advantage of services like LinkedIn.com or local user groups to help them find new pools of candidates.

MWJ: Are resumes submitted on-line and off-line handled differently? Is it better for a jobseeker to submit his/her resume on-line?

HS: We prefer online resume submission. If we receive a paper resume, we request an online submittal so we may add them to our database.

MWJ: How quick is the turn around between sourcing the candidate, interviewing the candidate, offering the candidate a position, and hiring the candidate? Is this process any faster when the resume is submitted on-line vs. offline, or is there no difference?

HS: This varies widely dependent on the job, the client and the candidate. On-line is probably minimally faster.

MWJ: What has been your experience with job boards? Have you been more successful searching the resume database than posting jobs?

HS: We feel that attacking it from both ends works best. Going out to find best-fit candidates on the boards as well as funneling them to us through the use of online ads gets us the best return.

MWJ: Do you accept resumes from job seekers in other geographic locations outside of your office locations? If so, what amount?

HS: We accept resumes from all over. In fact, we have a few international openings at this time. We find that it benefits UNICON and the clients we serve to provide the best talent independent of the employee’s current location.

Relocation is dependent on the candidate’s location, the location of the job, and other factors. Typically we offer $1500.00 or more.