Professional Services - ISTS Worldwide, Inc.

ISTS strives to be a strategic business partner focused on creating business solutions to assist our customers in accomplishing their corporate objectives. With a tremendous knowledge and expertise in the staffing industry, we are building a reputation as a creative industry leader – always finding new ways to bring greater value to both our customers and employees.

ISTS has made a concerted effort to prove that it ranks among the top in exceeding customer expectations in the Staff Augmentation industry. Consistent with this goal, we have won many customer accolades and we continue to learn and improve – every time, every day. Our employee compensation is linked to customer satisfaction results, holding everyone accountable for quality. We build everlasting successful relationships with our customers to help us continually improve and satisfy our customers. As an innovative leader, we develop programs and benefits to attract and retain quality talent to serve our customer’s better.

ISTS leads in providing solutions to major users of Technology and IT temporary staffing to maximize quality, improve service and reduce costs.

ISTS offers Contract Staffing, Project Staffing, Contract-to-Hire, and Permanent Placement services.

Why ISTS?

While we realize that the technical qualifications, expertise, experience, security w.r.t. IP Rights, financial stability and a time tested seasoned team that ISTS brings to the table is your primary concern; we also deliver solutions with everlasting valuable business traits. These are some advantages of partnering with ISTS:

Strong Business Ethics – we care for your business as a true partner.
Right Candidates – We not only match the skills required to perform an assignment, we match profiles.
Quick Response – Due to the ongoing process, our response time is fairly less as compared to competition considering that our selection rate is one of the highest in the industry.
Selection Ratio – Our resume submission to acceptance ratio is one of the highest in the industry at 72%. This translates into better time utilization from the hiring manager’s perspective.
Continued Support – ISTS allocates an account manager who works closely with you to focus on meeting your needs, to ensure timelines, and financial projections are strictly enforced.
Flexibility – For ever-changing market and business needs, we are large enough to offer you stability and agile enough to shape up to your needs.
Competitive Rates – We are extremely competitive and most confident of providing the best rates.
Increased Security – Understanding that security of the project is one of your prime concerns, ISTS takes complete responsibility of our consultants with regards to your Intellectual Property Rights.

Areas of Expertise

At ISTS, the Technology minds innovate. ISTS recognizes the critical importance of technical human resource in delivering quality software solutions and ensuring customer satisfaction on a continuous basis. Right from the inception, the company has therefore paid due importance to the key business processes of Recruitment. Through the established processes, ISTS has enhanced the quality, motivation and retention of the technical human resource.

ISTS specializes in the following domains:

Development Tools: Java/J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, AJAX, Hibernate, JINI, JavaSpaces, Web services, .Net, VB.Net, ASP.Net, C#, COM/DCOM, VB, VC++, MFC, C/C++, HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, VB Script, JSP, Perl, Python, AML, Avenue, Visio 2000, Netscape Directory Server, Active Directory, LDAP
Application Servers: Websphere, Weblogic, ATG, JBoss, Tomcat, Coldfusion, OC4j
Middleware / Integration: Tibco, Webmethods, MQ Series, BizTalk, Tuxedo, MSMQ, Mercator, WBI, WLI, UML, ISAPI, CORBA, RMI, Java Beans, Visibroker, TPBroker
Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2/UDB, Sybase, Terradata, MySQL
Business Intelligence / Data warehousing: Cognos, Business Objects, MicroStrategy, Hyperion, Informatica, Datastage, Ab Initio, Callidus
Document / Content Management: Interwoven, Documentum, Sharepoint, Broadvision
Security: SSL, PKI, SET, LDAP/X.500, Digital Certificates, Firewalls, IDS, IPS, PCI, DUKPT
Hardware & Software platforms: Linux, UNIX, Sun Solaris, HP, AIX, Windows
ERP/CRM: SAP, Oracle Applications, Oracle (Siebel / Retek / Peoplesoft), JDA
Data Storage Solutions: Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster, Veritas Netbackup, SUN HA, Legato, NetApps, EMC, Hitachi
Network Equipments: Cisco Router / Switches, Load Balancers, Juniper, Xtreme, Foundry networks
Mobile / Embedded: GSM, CDMA, GPRS, IEEE 802.11 based systems, 3G, Bluetooth, RFID, NFC, Intel, HCS12, .NET compact Framework, VxWorks, Embedded Linux, Win CE, DSP-BIOS, Symbian, Palm OS
Retail: Oracle Retail, Retalix, StoreNext, IBM SurePOS, UPOS (JPOS/OPOS)
Payment Platform: Verifone, Lipman, Hypercom, Ingenico, Sagem, Keycorp, Axalto
Payment Protocol: ISO 8583, APACS (Std 70), AS2805, Visa1/ Visa2, EMV, XML/HTTP

Recruiting Process

The selection process is very well defined for each level of staff. The process consists of different methods of selections like assessment of skill and experience, technical evaluation and personal interview. This process ensures that the right candidate is selected.

ISTS’s recruiters are senior engineers who have been in the industry hiring and training technical people for more than a decade. This provides ISTS with a much better insight than most of our competitors into your project requirement.

ISTS recruits its professionals from multiple sources that include University Campuses Industries, Academic and Research Institutions. ISTS has over the years developed a proprietary database of around 9,500 technical professionals whom they constantly stay in touch with and update its database about their current status. ISTS recruiting process is highly selective and the candidates go through the following evaluation steps:

Resume Processing
ISTS receives resumes either in response to postings or via referral or when candidates submit their resume online at our website.

ISTS also has membership with various jobsites like Monster, Dice, Hotjobs, Careerbuilder, Clearancejobs etc. Resumes are screened by qualified professionals.

Interview Process (Phone, Face-to-face, Written Tests)
A short listed group of top candidates who match our requirements are phone screened. Our phone screening process takes an average of 45–60 minutes and the interviewer has a set of questions relating to professional and behavioral acumen. The phone-screened candidates are once again short-listed and they are called in for an interview that lasts multiple sessions spanning a couple of days. The interview involves – one-on-one oral interviews and additional written tests in many cases.

Reference and background checks
After interviews, the qualified candidates are asked to submit at least three professional references. ISTS performs reference checks, verification of eligibility documents and other background check (if necessary).

Employee Orientation and Training
The candidates selected go through orientation, and in many cases undergo in-house or external training (technical and project management) to bring them up to speed.