Case Studies

A company’s human capital is their most treasured asset. When looking to expand this asset then, companies would do well to partner with a trusted and dependable resource. Below are samples of what Tony Bengtson, President/Owner of Precision Recruiting, has done for past clients.


StorePerform Technologies(Denver based, 3-year old software applications company) – Eighteen Month Project – Tony was hand selected by the CEO and CTO of the company to help them grow their employee base from 20 employees to 100 in a year.  Positions included Sr. Network Engineers, Sr. Professional Services Project Managers, Application Support Engineers, Sr. J2EE/Weblogic/WebSphere Engineers, Department Managers / VPs, and Sales.  End result, this client met its ramp-up staffing goals and reached cash-flow positive status by its third year in business!  Company was later sold to a larger company for a nice profit.

AIMCO – (nation’s largest apartment investment management company) – Eight Month Project - Tony was hand selected by the Director of Staffing to work on several company-wide, mission-critical staffing projects. The goal was to establish desperately needed credibility for the staffing department with other major departments across the company. Projects included identifying and providing solutions for the staffing “disconnects” across the company. Tony provided production-staffing support to fill a variety of key corporate positions in MIS, Customer Service, Accounting, Finance, Dispositions, Acquisitions, Operations, and Redevelopment. Precision Recruiting worked exclusively with the national Construction / Redevelopment Services SVP to build out and double his department nationally. Accomplishments included filling 5 VP positions and saving the client the enormous expense of executive search firm fees. Tony also worked with the Director of Staffing to successfully build and staff his recruiting department from scratch. Supplied highly experienced and revered staffing professionals on a contract basis who were converted to full time employees because of their proven performance. The staffing function was changed from a loosely run decentralized process to a highly efficient and respected centralized process now controlled by the Director of Staffing. Tony also provided temporary employee placement and payrolling services to AIMCO.

Rhythms NetConnections (national DSL service provider) – Two Year Project - At the time, industry analysts referred to this company as the “Darling of the CLEC Telecom Companies”. The company was highly revered and grew from 200 to over 2000 employees in just two years. Tony was selected early on to jump-start the recruiting process and develop successful recruiting strategies for the most demanding departments throughout the company. Departments included: MIS, Network Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Business Integration Group, and their prized Six Sigma Quality / Process Improvement Department – Successfully recruited 53 Six Sigma Black Belts and Master Black Belts from across the nation to build out their department. No outside recruiters were ever utilized to fill any of these positions, thus ensuring the lowest cost per hire possible for this client! In addition, Tony was the longest tenured recruiting resource for this client. Tony assisted in the management and development of the recruitment team by recruiting some of the best recruiters in the area. Overall cost per hire for the team averaged around $1500. Tony successfully recruited 90 high-speed data communications salespeople within a 5-month period that resulted in the sales department being 150% of projected sales goals.

Coors Brewing Company – 18 Month Project - Tony was sought out to manage the staffing process of their company-wide, mission-critical Y2K project, during a time when qualified resources were extremely limited. The project included working with IBM who was co-managing the project. After accepting the assignment He realized that the budget for hiring these Y2K consultants was seriously under-funded. He developed an innovative “direct” consultant-recruiting model that saved over $400,000 in consultant billing expenses during that 18 month project.

Gateway – 6 Month Project - The VP, of Human Resources from Gateway (the computer manufacturer) hand selected Tony to open up their new global data center in Lakewood, CO. This was an empty building that was successfully staffed with qualified IT professionals in six months.

 

 
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