Recruiting, training and retaining good staff is one of the biggest challenges facing any growing organisation. Managing and motivating good ICT professionals is an especially notable challenge for non-technical organisations not least because of the current shortage of such people. Schools in particular find that home grown technical skills are regularly lost to industry. The main reasons for this have been that technical people are attracted to the opportunities of using more diverse technologies outside the schools sector and, of course, the appeal of higher salaries.

Our experience over the past twenty years of recruiting, training and retaining top flight technical staff means that we are better able to cope with these challenges than most organisations. The approaches that we should take towards to assisting your organisation with the issues surround ICT personnel could include:

In-house Technical Staff

For key technical personnel that should be employed within your organisation, we can help the drafting of job specifications and the assessment of the suitability of candidates.

Outsourced Human Resources

For technical appointments of such importance that you cannot risk employing an incapable person or to risk being left without a person to fulfil such a role at short notice. OLC in such circumstances can provide a suitably qualified person for the role either from their existing in house team or recruited specifically for the role.

Short Term Personnel

On an ad-hoc basis we may also be able to provide interim staff to cover temporary skills gaps in your organisation.