Avnet Helps Solution Providers Fill Jobs

Even as unemployment has reached a 16-year high, solution providers still find it difficult to fill their open jobs – but one distributor is looking to help ease the burden.

Avnet Technology Solutions HP Solutions group is offering a new program designed to help HP solution provider partners recruit qualified talent to fill their open jobs. Avnet's Talent Acquisition Referral Services (TARS) will provide a dedicated team to help partners through all the steps of the recruiting and hiring process, according to Avnet.

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"Various partners we have in the market space and our partner advisory council all said this was a problem where they could use Avnet's help," says Phillip Privett, vice president of marketing, HP Solutions with Avnet Technology Solutions. "We built a program where we use Avnet's current talent acquisition infrastructure…We found a lot of our partners were looking for help in this area."

The program will be offered on a flat yearly-fee basis, regardless of how many candidates the partner interviews or hires. While Avnet declined to disclose the fee, Privett said it was less than half of what a typical headhunter fee would be for the same service.

Participating partners work with a dedicated program manager who will help create, post and manage job descriptions; develop a resume submission and review process; conduct prescreening calls with candidates; perform background checks including education, criminal records, employment, drug screening, assessment testing, and other areas as required by the job description; and ultimately provide the partner with a short list of qualified candidates.