Project-Duration Staffing (PDS)
VETTTING-HIRING-EMPLOYING-RELEASING – Full Service & Turnkey Staffing Solutions
About
Our PDS Services
Two factors driving market growth today are the need for an effective hiring options & process as well as reducing unnecessary overhead costs. In short, the speed and HOW you get talent onboarded and productive counts now more than ever.
With our best-in-class project duration staffing (PDS), Oceanbound becomes an extension of your business or project management team because we know the impact of smart hiring. Do you want your leaders to spend their days stressing over hiring or focused on getting the job done?
Oceanbound can handle all your: TEMPORARY (long & short term), PRE-EMPLOYMENT AUDITION (our “Try Before You Hire” model), or PERMANENT Staffing needs.
87%
Of recruiters state staffing must be more strategic – TIMES ARE CHANGING, FAST! Why wouldn’t your HR or Staffing strategy?
7 out of 10
Of workers prefer the flexibility of project-duration contract work over being an in-house “company” employee.
150%
Percentage of growth Oceanbound has been achieving year over year for its staffing service line.
We Help You Build Great Teams And Make Them Successful
Oceanbound wants to transform your hiring process. How? Access to talent. It’s just that simple.
Once you reach out and a needs assessment is conducted, our talented team is put in motion immediately to find the right employees for your business, project or client’s needs.
Whether you are a GC or Owner client in need of EHS & QC contracted workers for a long-term project, surge hiring, an pre-employment audition or a quick one-month temp. worker—we interview, hire, and onboard candidates through our PDS service. We consult clients on their strategies and process, too.
WHY oceanbound
How We Support You
#1
...in Transparent Pricing
...in Dedicated Customer Service
50, 12, 3
Every State + A Dozen Industries + Core Competencies
Service Benefits
Oceanbound Value Add
Oceanbound’s Project-Duration Staffing services give time back to your HR teams to focus on the core needs of the business. Here’s how we add value:
Enhance Candidate Quality
Promoting attractive comp plans and career flexibility our PDS leads to the right skilled, vetted, and certified employees for your team every time.
Improved Retention
Retention starts in the hiring process. A more fluid, efficient, and transparent recruitment process helps enhance candidates’ experiences with Oceanbound and you, from Day 1.
Enable Scalability
We help your business with what you need right now, and then scale hiring to meet growing business needs.
Investing For The Future
We know how much bad hires cost. Efficient and effective hiring processes save you the costs and headaches of that—with quicker time-to-hire and improved productivity.
Drive Hiring Innovation
We believe in the old saying, "We don't know what we don't know", or maybe you do but inertia has set in. Our PDS service gives you the feeling of having a partner in tackling all your human capital requirements in a unique and turnkey way.
staffing options
EHS, QC and more
'Just-in-Time' Hiring
With our standard PDS offerings, you can offload parts or all their recruiting process—and the management of it—to us.
Oceanbound’s PDS service takes a holistic approach to the hiring process. We take the burden off your HR team and let them focus on the core of your business to help save you money and boost productivity.
We’ll collaborate with you to discover your business goals and support your entire recruiting process from building candidate profiles and interviewing to onboarding and reporting.
Surge Hiring
Need lots of employees, and need them fast? Part of our recruitment management services include taking on surge hiring for our clients.
With our surge hiring experience, we know how to:
- Grow teams quickly and efficiently
- Manage them throughout their needed tenure
- Report on productivity
- Scale up or down as needed
USE CASE: A large utility company was recently mandated by their regulator to clear all vegetation in the right-of-way of 10s of thousands of miles of overhead cables on a very aggressive deadline. This utility to mitigate the risk exposure to their company from thousands of tree care companies hired over 200 EHS field safety professionals in two month. We Got You!
Employee Auditioning
Ever make a great hire? It feels amazing for you, for them, it’s one of the best joys in running an HR department or a business or being a recruiter. Sometimes we make a mistake, for whatever reason, a bad hire made their way in. Whether it is company culture mismatch, personality conflicts, or lack of motivation – it happens, and its expensive and even emotionally challenging for those involved.
Oceanbound is proud to announce our new initiative to counter these inevitabilities by integrating our 3rd party auditioning service into you HR hiring process. Let us shoulder the risks and costs of employment for the candidate that you THINK is a great fit…but you’re not certain – READ ON below for more benefits of our “TRY BEFORE YOU HIRE” resource!
TRY BEFORE YOU HIRE!
What is "TRY BEFORE YOU HIRE"?
Oceanbound’s “TRY BEFORE YOU HIRE” service allows you to audition a potential candidate before extending an offer of employment.
We understand that finding and hiring the right fit for your critical role can be challenging. Attrition and bad hires are time consuming and expensive.
We hear you, and being the problem solvers we are, “TRY BEFORE YOU HIRE” was invented!
The best part is, our workers are aware that this is the game plan. They understand that the project could end any day through being released to being made an offer. It’s an AUDITION!
NORMAL HIRING PROCESS: INTERVIEW > EXTEND OFFER > HIRE
WITH Oceanbound’s TBYH: INTERVIEW > AUDITION VIA TBYH > HIRE OR DON’T HIRE. The stakes are lower, the stress is less and the cost savings is tremendous – The hassle of terminating falls on us. We Got You!
Key Benefits of TBYH
Save Money & Time
- Attrition and bad hires cost your company 10s of thousands of dollars a year.
- Save on expensive benefits (trucks, health, 401(k), etc) – Oceanbound sets a flat rate with you and handles the rest (see below!)
Reduce Stress
- No headaches or bosses bearing down on you
- Your candidate is in good hands with us. Relax.
- No legal concerns faced with a W2, we sustain that for you.
Flexibility
- Pick and choose who you want to audition.
- You could treat Oceanbound as an extension of your HR process.
TRY BEFORE YOU HIRE!
Check out our TRY BEFORE YOU HIRE Process Below!
Needs Assessment
This is the most in depth bit of work. Essential to understanding your needs. We pretty much handle the rest.
Market Research
We reach out to our expansive network, general talent marketplace or follow up with your pre-selected candidate
Candidate Proposals
Our respective teams discuss the proposed candidates as current options. We either make an offer or continue the search for that perfect fit.
Interviews
Based on your desired intentions for this candidates audition period, Oceanbound either has a single interview or a two layer process with your oversight for more lengthy TBHY auditions or high level roles you seek to bring on full-time, and in-house.
Candidate Selection
We discuss the best candidate and depending on our contract/pricing option collaborate on the best rate to offer or move on the pre-established blanket rate.
Offer & Onboard
Let's make this happen! We get your next great future employee in for their audition. We've been transparent to them and they are aware that this can last one week or start a career. No suprises, minimal risk to your company. Let Oceanbound bring it home for ya.
value in pricing
Transparent Pricing
ECONOMY OF SCALES RATES
For large scale (20+ headcount) orders of project-duration staffing.
We will create a bespoke pricing structure for you based on economy of scales. Why should only manufacturers get this benefit?
WITH THIS OPTION we focus less on margin and more on quantity which achieves our LOWEST RATES POSSIBLE.
As we grow, there will be a natural synergistic rate sharing where downward pressure if placed on all rates within our ecosystem. Gotta love market economies!
COST PLUS (+) Rates
Another play out of the manufacturing industry’s playbook (Oil & Gas, too). We maintain our transparent approach to pricing by:
- Being honest and detailed about employee acquisition cost (hourly wage, benefits, etc)
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- State and Federal payroll taxes (typically between 14-21%)
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- Standardized profit margin % (negotiated)
STATE BASED RATE
We don’t automatically assume a potential customer appreciates the ease of nationwide blanket pricing. We recognize the value position of rating our project-duration staff according to the State in which they are working on your behalf.
Project owners have smart people working for them. Chances are they chose a particular state, in large part, for its financial appeal (tax structure/incentives, cost of labor, cost land, etc).
RATES BASED ON:
1) State payroll and income tax structure
2) Cost of Labor associated to similar roles in that state.
In other words, we will not bill you the same rate for work in Kansas as we do for work in California.
NATIONWIDE BLANKET RATE
Sometimes it is just easier to have nationwide blanket rate. One or two numbers, that’s it. Predictable, stable, easy. We get it.
RATES BASED ON:
- Standard agreed upon rate between us and you
additional Services
Services >>> Safety program development
Need an updated safety program, site-safety plan for a big new client project, first time on a project in a State or simply a 3rd party review?
Oceanbound is happy to help!
services >>> consulting
Just seeking advice for your company or project EHS or QC needs?
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