A little bit about us
Founded in 2003, 12 months were spent prior to set up meeting up with SAP & HR Managers to discuss which areas of the recruitment process could agencies improve on.
The general feedback was that they were disillusioned by the poor service provided and the variations in the costs involved in hiring the same consultant from different agencies.
The 2 main areas identified was the recruitment consultants lack of knowledge and experience in SAP recruitment and the understanding and complexity of SAP and the technologies within and this resulted in CVs forwarded that did not match the clients' job specification and the other was qualifying the validity of the CV.
Our client management team are senior SAP recruiters, with over 6 years experience in resourcing and recruiting for Global SAP consultancies and end-user clients and all candidates/consultants registering with Swordfish for work are technically tested by retained SAP consultants with a minimum of 5 years experience in their respected field coupled with 3 years of work references which gives our clients the confidence that the profiles that we forward are not only available, but within budget and more importantly can complete the work as requested.
We work to a fixed margin of 12% for both contract and permanent introductions, this allows our clients to work with us in confidence that when we introduce SAP consultants there is no discreet charge for our service that is both professional and cost-effective.
We are especially adding value as a SAP recruitment specialist in the 'harder to find' areas such as BW, CRM, EBP, SEM, FI/CO, APO,Portals, Netweaver, XI and HR-PY as well as the traditional R/3 areas of ABAP, Basis, FI/CO, SD/MM etc. We also have a deep understanding and pool of consultant resources in technologies such as i2, Manugistics, Commerce One, Business Objects, Cognos, Ariba, Webmethods, Tibco, BizTalk and Seebeyond when indirectly or directly involved with SAP or other ERP software.
Swordfish support SAP project resourcing request at every stage through the provision of high calibre and experienced SAP professionals, whether you are looking for Technical, Business, Project Management, Change Management or Functional expertise, Swordfish can assist.
With a network of over 20000 SAP Consultants, Swordfish are a recognised recruitment partner in the SAP world, where we have assisted the project staffing in Europe, Asia, USA, Middle East and Australasia.
Initial concerns that our international clients had with working with a UK based agency, was the possible lack of knowledge of local market conditions, country specific rates, inability to resource local consultants and legal/tax implications.
When requested, Swordfish GUARANTEE will always find local resources, therefore cutting down on extra costs such as travel and accommodation expenses but more importantly resourcing consultants who understand the local working cultures and in turn are fully committed to the projects to ensure implementations, project deadlines & go-lives are delivered on time. We also partner local Accountants and Solicitors in several countries to deal with accounting and legal procedures such as contracts, taxes, insurance etc.
For Permanent recruitment most of our candidates are referrals from other consultants that we have secured new position for, we have found this the most effective way of attracting candidates rather than the main stream of advertising on the internet Job boards, and as a testament that we understand our clients requirements and the SAP technologies that we only need to send 2 CV's for each vacancy that we receive.
We can also offer employers and candidates an alternative method of advertising vacancies and applying for roles on our career recruitment portal.
Clients, can simply register and advertise contract and permanent vacancies on the recruitment portal and receive the CVs and manage the response directly.
The recruitment portal also has a CV database which allows employers to search by country, skill-set, availability, salary, daily rate, recent employer etc. to source suitable candidates and to contact directly.
SAP Professionals can register and apply for roles directly and also upload their CV which will be viewed by 100's of potential SAP clients. It's easy to use and you have the option to stay anonymous until you decide to reveal your personal identity to your preferred potential employer.
It is our aim to create a recruitment portal where all manner of companies will be able to advertise roles and find suitably qualified candidates easily and without hassle and the normal huge costs associated.
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