The Difference Between IT Consulting and IT Staffing
Traditional IT staffing is often a good option for filling permanent placement roles but is often not the best way to quickly meet the customized resource demands of IT projects. If you’ve had a lackluster experience with an IT staffing agency – you’re not alone. Dealing with inexperienced temporary hires creates frustration, project delays, and ultimately adds to the project’s bottom line. These frustrations are one of the reasons why our clients work with consulting firms, such as Darby Consulting. They’ve had to learn the hard way about the difference between staffing an IT project with temporary hires and providing highly-trained, often highly-specialized consultants to deliver successful projects.
Earlier this month, we shared a powerful client story from an oil and gas company about how Darby Consulting provided a project team that not only enabled them to meet their IT project deadlines, but also saved the company over $1.5 million over the course of the project.
That’s the power of hiring an IT consulting firm. That’s the power of IT Consulting, Evolved.
The Difference in Trained IT Staff
When you outsource the staffing of an IT project, it’s imperative to consider the internal training that happens before arriving to your office. Most IT staffing companies do not provide training for their employees. Instead, they use traditional recruiting methods to match temporary and permanent hires with the client’s needs.
IT consulting firms however, match highly-trained consultants to the needs of the client. Darby Consulting uses data science to perfectly match experienced consultants to a project’s needs. In addition, Darby provides process, training, technology, and support to our consultants, giving them the best tools to give our clients the highest service. We use our proprietary onboarding methodology to prepare and train all Darby IT consultants to efficiently serve your specific project needs.
Experienced IT Consultants versus IT Staff
Many IT staffing agencies source recent college graduates or new-to-the-workforce hires to fulfill client needs. While many college graduates are qualified to fill basic IT positions, they lack the expertise that is won through years of experience.
Darby Consulting provides consultants who are PMI-certified and have at least 15 years of experience. In addition, we invest in training and onboarding for each of our consultants and project managers. We partner with software and hardware companies to develop solutions and maintain certifications, and we provide a cloud-based Project Management system our consultants and clients use together to successfully plan, implement, and monitor the success of projects.
Unlike IT staffing agencies, Darby Consulting supports our IT Project Managers & Team Leads with a full suite of best-practice methodologies, tools, and templates so our clients can more quickly deliver results.
The Support of a Full-Service IT Consulting Firm
Most IT staffing agencies are centered on developing new business and recruiting local and national talent for placement opportunities. If a placement doesn’t work out, a good IT staffing agency will work to find a suitable replacement. After placement is complete, the IT staffing agency collects their fee, and for many agencies, that is the end of their involvement with the client.
An IT consulting firm provides project managers and IT consultants who continuously check-in with their clients and consultants throughout the life-cycle of the project to ensure solutions are being delivered and project challenges are overcome. Darby Consulting has gone above and beyond by investing in and developing proven IT project management methods and tools to accelerate the time and cost to plan and deliver IT software and hardware. Our involvement with our clients goes beyond IT staff placement. We partner with our clients through the project’s go-live event and stay until we are certain all project elements have been successfully implemented.
The Darby Difference
Darby Consulting isn’t a staffing agency. We’re an IT consulting firm who works with you to make your project a success – and that includes evaluating hardware, software, infrastructure, and people. We don’t hire inexperienced IT professionals. We hire the most highly-certified IT professionals in the industry, often highly-specialized to be the perfect fit for your project.
Making the decision to rely on an IT consultant for your project is a big step, but is often one of the most important steps to project success you can take. To see if your project needs can be best served by an IT consulting firm, contact us today!
ABOUT DARBY CONSULTING
IT project delivery is what we do. For over 10 years, we’ve helped growing organizations consistently deliver successful IT projects – both software and hardware. We’ve pioneered innovative methods and tools tailored specifically for your success. And we’re affordable; we’ve built a cost-effective operating model so we can offer exceptional IT project services at prices that will surprise you. This means more projects completed on-time, higher end-user satisfaction, and increased growth for your organization.
Let us help you successfully plan and deliver your next IT project. Schedule a meeting today!
