Staffing for Success: How GDH Supports Financial Sector IT Projects

Key takeaways:

• The financial sector has special recruiting needs and challenges that can make it more difficult to attract and source top talent.

• GDH has developed strategic methods of sourcing talent that involve both high-tech tools and the tried-and-true method of relationship building.

• GDH has a proven track record of success in recruiting IT talent for the financial sector, including over a decade of partnership with a major regional bank.

The banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector has unique challenges that make it more difficult to find talented IT workers with the skill sets needed. This includes a perception that financial sector jobs are boring along with a heavy regulatory burden that requires highly specified skills for some jobs. Many financial services companies can benefit from recruiting and staffing expertise to help them find the staff they need.

GDH has a proven track record of supporting financial sector IT projects for a variety of companies, including banks. We remain on the cutting edge of IT staffing in the financial sector because of our commitment to the industry and its needs.

Understanding the Financial Sector’s IT Needs 

The financial sector has become largely digitized over the past two decades, and now relies heavily on software and online solutions like the cloud and specific hiring tools to provide services to its clients. Because of this evolution, tech workers are in high demand for financial companies like never before. 

Some of the roles and skills needed in the financial sector today include cybersecurity, data analytics, software development, project management, and more. These skills help to safeguard personal and proprietary data, track performance, and meet ongoing goals and priorities successfully. 

GDH’s Approach to IT Staffing

GDH understands that relationships are the core of any successful staffing strategy. A great deal of time is spent getting to know each company’s needs as well as developing a deep talent pool of vetted IT candidates that can fill needed positions. 

Because of this ongoing commitment to building relationships and a deep knowledge of the IT skills needed in the finance sector, GDH can often staff a project with astonishing speed. In fact, GDH has a track record of doing just that for a large number of highly satisfied clients in the finance sector. 

Case Study: GDH’s Partnership with a Major Regional Bank 

GDH has partnered with a major regional bank for over a decade, providing staff for numerous special projects on an as-needed basis. Because of the relationships built with a number of top leaders in different areas of the bank’s infrastructure, GDH has placed staff in key roles that end up working together to reach goals or complete projects. 

The challenge in this particular situation was to ramp up IT staffing for special projects on a temporary or ongoing basis, providing exactly the staff needed at exactly the time needed. For these projects, timing is often unpredictable, and waiting months for staff placement would impede the bank’s ability to serve its customers effectively. 

The solution to this challenge was that GDH has been able to find and place these workers quickly because of its existing talent pool and the time spent listening to and understanding the bank’s needs.

As a result, the bank has continued the relationship with GDH for over a decade and relies on them to find and place dozens of IT staff members each year in various projects where they have skills gaps or existing staff can’t handle the workload. 

GDH has been an invaluable partner to this bank, allowing it to operate more efficiently without overworking its existing staff and hiring teams.

Key Benefits of GDH’s IT Staffing Solutions

Key benefits GDH provides to financial sector clients include rapid staffing, high-quality talent, and flexible solutions. Besides GDH’s own talent pools from which they can quickly source needed talent with the specific skills needed, GDH can also work with companies to build their reputation as a good place to work, which will further help attract top talent.

GDH’s people-centered approach is crucial in building trust and ensuring client satisfaction. All the cutting edge technology in the world will not be successful in staffing and recruiting without good old-fashioned communication and a focus on building quality relationships. 

Adapting to Industry Trends

GDH combines its people-centered approach with a focus on staying ahead of industry trends. By continuously adapting staffing strategies to the latest technologies, GDH uses every advantage to get the best possible results for the financial services companies it works with.

So much of the recruiting process can now be automated so that sourcing and placement can happen faster than ever before. GDH uses many of these tools to streamline the recruiting process and improve user experience to keep top talent engaged in the process.

Companies often do not have the budget for automation software and the latest recruiting resources, but for GDH it’s all part of their cost of doing business. When you hire GDH to handle your IT hiring, you also get the benefit of these cutting edge tools and resources. 

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GDH has a critical role in supporting financial sector IT projects with its unique combination of recruiting technologies and a people-focused culture. Companies also benefit from GDH’s strong reputation within the finance industry. GDH’s reputation helps bring strong candidates where often companies find full-time roles for these candidates.
If your company needs staffing or recruiting help, Reach out to GDH today.