Odyssey Information Services, Inc. is dedicated to providing outstanding IT consulting services for our clients' technology needs. Our goal is to provide premier consultants that complete your projects on time and under budget. We believe “Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible.”

Odyssey’s goal is to provide premier consultants to assist our clients with emerging and cutting edge technology to meet their business objectives and gain optimal results.

Our tenured sales and recruiting staff strive to understand your business direction, technical requirements and culture. This understanding ensures the best available resources are allocated to your organization’s staff augmentation needs.

Today’s economy dictates that technology is a leading component allowing companies to stay ahead of the competition. Odyssey contributes to our client successes by providing:

• Thoroughly screened consultants
• Consultants who in many cases have a proven history with Odyssey clients
• Nationwide presence
• Excellent consultant benefits to attract and retain the best talent

Odyssey’s experienced consultants are able to optimize system reliability through full life-cycle development, design, programming, implementation, support, maintenance, systems analysis, systems administration, planning, quality assurance, project management, networking, communications and hardware support.

About Odyssey

Odyssey Information Services, Inc. is a specialty firm with tenured sales and recruiting teams within the IT industry. In business since March of 2000. Our Corporate office is located in Plano, TX and we provide nationwide technology services.

Remote capabilities:
We are currently set up to provide professional consulting services nationally.

Operating principles & values:
Our goal is to provide premier consultants that complete your projects on time and under budget. We focus on hiring high quality consultants. Honesty among our consultants and client partners is our primary business principle.

Unique strengths:
Established, collaborative relationships with our clients and have seasoned tenured recruiting teams. Manage a private database that includes over 20,000 qualified contractor resumes. Over 90% repeat client business.

Strategic partnerships:
We are aligned with several business partners.  We strive to promote the solutions and services of our business partners.  We offer training and testing on our in house servers to our employees and clients.

Managed Vendor relationships:
IQNavigator, Fieldglass, Manpower, PeopleClick, Beeline, Volt/Procurestaff

Background testing process for consulting and supplemental staffing engagements:
We have a drug test policy, perform background and credit checks, and have a fulltime HR representative to monitor results.

We have consultants and employees that hold security clearances in the following areas:
DOD, TS-SBI, TS-SCI, TS-SSBI, Top Secret and Secret Clearance.

Recruiting methods:
Network with current and previous consultants, employee referrals and project manager referrals. We check references, technical phone screens, skills sheet evaluations, resume review, understand candidate’s expectations, meet the potential hires, obtain feed back from client interviews, cover offer, deliver offer and schedule acceptable start date with both client and consultant. We consider our best source to be referrals. Other sources include: contractor responses to advertisements, internet, call-ins and project manager recommendations.

Screening methodologies:
The screening process begins with qualifying the consultant. All referrals and references are checked. After a thorough phone screening, personal interviews are conducted and in many cases an internal senior staff consultant conducts a technical screen.

Offsite Interviews:
We offer offsite interview facilities to our clients to keep the hiring process confidential.

Retention:
Odyssey has been able to keep turnover to a minimum through carefully developed processes.  We offer a very competitive benefit package, which includes 401K matching and a very generous vesting period. Our full-time Human Resource representative does a frequent follow-up with the consultants to ensure expectations are met. We have several dedicated fulltime accounting professionals for payroll and billing.

Odyssey Information Services, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities as required by Federal Laws. All hiring, promotion, pay, fringe benefits, training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment are not determined on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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