thank you very much

I wish SI Systems retained it’s people better, they seem to have high turnover.

My previous comment is my opinion of the business model and the MatchGuide system that was hyped up in the interview and is not intended to launch an investigation in what went wrong in my case or the other cases I mentioned. What had been done in my case is over, and I am not going to revisit it just because I raised a disagreement on the effectiveness of the so-called MatchGuide system. S.I. Systems should instead look at credibility of their word against their own system.

When was last time you conducted a survey of how ALL your “candidate” clients felt about the system? Can you provide data to support the claims made of the success of your MatchGuide system? Marc Saltzman asked a similar question but was poorly answered by Derek Bullen. In Derek answer, the survey conducted covered only the candidates that were successfully placed by S.I. System and the survey results do not give any measure of the match success of the MatchGuide system. The survey tells me that only 37% of your contractors are happy with the automated payroll and timesheet systems. On the “employer” client side, the case for a success story is poor as well. The “employer” could’ve attained the same level of success if they used S.I. Systems competitors.

MatchGuide, in my opinion, does not offer the prospecting “candidate” any measurable value and S.I. Systems is not any better than the job boards out there. In fact the candidate may have better success with online job boards such as Workopolis and Monster which are used by employers and recruiters such as S.I. Systems alike. Perhaps the word “Match” in the MatchGuide should replaced with the word “Selection” and then I will withdraw my criticism.

I also find it really ironic that S.I. Systems off-shored the development of its MatchGuide system to India, i.e. not using the Canadian talent in their database!!!

Finally, I think this problem is not unique to S.I. Systems but it’s common among the vast majority of IT recruiters, with the exception of a few who are very hard to find.

Derek is unavailable for the next couple of weeks, but I want to be sure to respond to your comment in a timely manner.

I’m sorry to hear that you didn’t have a great experience with us. We are always trying to learn and improve so your input is very much appreciated. We have had countless success stories with MatchGuide, so I’d be interested in understanding where things didn’t work out in your experience so we can get better.

I’d like to look into this, so if you wouldn’t mind dropping me a line at jennifer.foster@sisystems.com, we can find out more and I can correspond with you directly!

Jennifer Foster
Vice President Operations East, S.i. Systems

I have other friends who have extensive experience in IT and have tried S.I. Systems. Guess what they’ve had the same experience. Early this year S.I. Systems I was surprised to see my friends profile, skill matrix and experience being used as an example for one of their recruitment campaigns. So I sent him an e-mail asking him what was the deal? It turned out that they were using his confidential information without his consent. What does this tell you? I am telling you don’t get your hopes up with this recruiting company. It’s just one of many with which you likely to be disappointed.

If you are an employer, just imagine how many great, talented people your organization has missed as a result of such system.

However no one should take my word for it, try it yourself, I am not out there to influence anyone’s opinion. I hope you experience it yourself and when you find out you can speak for yourself and perhaps respond to this comment if it remains until then.

You’re right. I’ll follow up to see why the site is down.

Maybe it’s from all the Sync traffic bombarding their server ;-)

Marc