Contingent Program & Talent Consulting

If you’re using staffing agencies — one of them or twelve of them — there is money and time sitting inside how that program is run. Rates nobody has benchmarked in three years. Vendors nobody has reviewed. Contractors who should have been converted to direct hires eighteen months ago. We’ve been on the supplier side of programs like yours at national scale, so we know where the leverage actually is.

• Staffing vendor review — who you’re using, what you’re paying, and which relationships are actually earning their markup.
• Bill rate and markup benchmarking against what the Valley, Sacramento, and Bay Area markets really pay right now.
• Contractor usage strategy — which roles should be contract, which should be direct hire, and which contractors you should have converted already.
• Program design and vendor governance — how many suppliers you need, how work gets released, and how performance actually gets measured.

This one is about the hiring you do yourself. We’ll walk your process the way a candidate experiences it, tell you where you’re losing the good ones, and hand you something you can put in place next week — not a hundred-page deck.

• Hiring process design — intake, interview loop, scorecards, and decision timelines that don’t lose strong candidates to slower answers.
• Compensation benchmarking by role, function, and market — the same local data behind our Central Valley Salary Guide, run against your specific roles.
• Sourcing strategy — where your candidates actually come from, and how to reach the ones who aren’t reading job boards.
• Offer and closing strategy — what it takes to close someone in this market, and why offers fall apart when you skip the setup.

Aidan spent eight years at two of the largest staffing firms in the United States before starting Clover. He sat on the supplier side of contingent programs — negotiating bill rates, filling requisitions inside VMS platforms, competing against four other vendors for the same order, and watching which clients got real service and which ones got whatever was left.

That’s the perspective you’re buying. Someone who ran the machine from the inside, now sitting on your side of the table. He knows what those programs cost, where they leak, what a supplier will concede when they’re asked properly, and what “we can’t go lower” actually means.

And because we’re two people, you get the owners. No analyst team, no deck factory, no junior consultant learning your business on your dime. Same two people who answer the phone when you call about a search.