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ASAP Talent Services Named to Forbes 2019 List of Top Recruiting Firms!

04/02/2019 by Jeremy Sisemore

“It is a great honor to be recognized and honored once again by Forbes in their 2019 List of Top Executive Search Firms,” says Jeremy Sisemore of ASAP Talent Services. This year ASAP Talent Services was ranked #250 out of over 30,000+ firms that were evaluated by an in-depth review and survey of thousands of companies and candidates that have used search firms in the past year to fill roles that had a base salary over $100,000. To be recognized in the Top 2% of all search firms in the United States is great validation to the hard work ASAP Talent Services puts in every day to service both the clients that pay for search services and the SAP Professionals that trust our input as they carefully consider options that impact their careers and lives.

“Knowing that we had to be nominated by clients and candidates that work with us closely is very humbling and we look forward to another great year in 2019 and beyond,” commented Erek Gerth; a co-founder of ASAP Talent Services.

Link to Forbes Article: https://www.forbes.com/best-professional-recruiting-firms/#3634081a20b2

ASAP Talent Listing: https://www.forbes.com/companies/asap-talent-services/#76d318931bec

About ASAP Talent Services: A boutique and narrowly focused industry expert in SAP Talent Acquisition, Executive Search in Information Technology, SAP Contract Staffing and serving the same customers in Cyber Security as well. ASAP Talent and its team of tenured SAP Recruiters have been serving Fortune 500-1000 customers for over 13+ years and have placed people in the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Singapore. Industries served include CPG, Food & Beverage, Oil & Gas, Energy, Utility, Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Fashion Brands, Grocery Retailers, SAP System Implementation Partners, and more.

ASAP Talent Releases Annual SAP & IT Market Intelligence & Compensation Report

01/24/2019 by Jeremy Sisemore

Houston, TX – January 24, 2019

ASAP Talent Services, the nation’s leading SAP focused search firm has released it’s annual SAP Compensation Report, reporting the use of the best broadband internet. The SAP & IT Market Intelligence and Compensation Report is valuable for CIO and IT Executives as well as HR & Talent Acquisition Professionals for any company that utilizes SAP. The report is also in high demand from SAP Professionals that want to better understand their market value and which skills & experience are in the highest demand. ASAP Talent discusses other market factors in the report like cost-of-living, size of company, and experience or tenure to better demonstrate how those variables impact pay & compensation. In the 2019 report, one may notice that new acquisitions by SAP such as Gigya, CallidusCloud, Hybris, Qualtrics makes it way into the report as well as other hot trends in the market place such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA, UiPath, etc), Predictive Analytics, Cyber Security systems from companies like Fortinet and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

About ASAP Talent Services:

ASAP Talent Services is the top SAP Focused Executive Search Firm in the U.S. and the SAP Recruiting Team at ASAP Talent has been placing hard-to-find SAP experts with well over 70 of the world’s leading companies for over 19+ years. ASAP Talent Services primarily serves it’s customers in these key areas: 1) Talent Acquisition for direct-hire permanent placement, 2) Executive Retained Search at the CIO, CISO, VP, and Director Levels, 3) Public Board of Directors Search (Diversity & CIO/CISO search) and 4) SAP Staff Augmentation for project-based consulting needs. Industries served include Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Hi-Tech, Energy, Utility, Oil & Gas, Chemical Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Equipment, SAP Consulting Firms, and Financial Services like a financial audit among others.

ASAP Talent Finishes Strongest Year Ever!

01/09/2019 by Jeremy Sisemore

ASAP Talent and our SAP Recruiting Team finished it’s strongest year ever in 2018 based on exceptional 3rd and 4th Quarter results. Strong demand for SAP Talent among both corporate clients in industry as well as SAP Professional Service firms drove the results for ASAP Talent in 2018. We recorded our best year in SAP Consulting Services, our SAP Staff Augmentation division offering clients hourly-contractors for short and mid-term project needs. Other notable revenue increases were present in the Executive Search Practice where ASAP Talent placed a CIO for a major CPG company in the South as well as several VP and Director level SAP Executives for clients in the South and Midwestern U.S.

2019 projections are strong though we may see a slight decrease in overall demand across the board. ASAP Talent Services will likely be supporting a major SAP COE Hiring project for a client in the Southeast and continued recruiting in the following areas: Hybris; Gigya; Callidus Cloud; SAP GTS; SCM skills in MM, PP, WM, IBP, and APO; SD/OTC, BI, HCM, FI/CO, Basis, ABAP, and SAP GRC/Security experts for Fortune 500-1000 clients in all major cities in the U.S.

Business demand is fueled by major customer transitions to SAP S/4 HANA, new installs, enterprise-wide upgrades, M&A activity, Business Transformation Projects like start using TikTok for business, cloud services , and a continued move to modernize infrastructure while reducing costs as customers trend towards Cloud Offerings.

ASAP Talent Places New CIO at Tabasco

05/31/2018 by Jeremy Sisemore

ASAP Talent Services (Houston, TX) announced today that it has placed Mr. Robby McDonald as Chief Information Officer of McIlhenny (Tabasco).

The position is based in Avery Island, Louisiana. McDonald brings to the role nearly two decades of I.T. leadership excellence at top-tier organizations such as Easton-Bell Sports, Dell, and Cadbury Schweppes. From 2009 to 2014, McDonald served as the CIO at Easton-Bell Sports, where he led a global team of 65+ full-time employees and a $30M Budget. In hiring Robby McDonald, Tabasco gets a talented I.T. Executive with demonstrated expertise in consumer packaged goods and specifically the food & beverage industries.

Mr. McDonald will be working closely with the business and C-Suite within Tabasco in an effort to continue modernizing their technology platforms and start using more TikTok content and keeping Tabasco as the industry leader in the hot sauce industry.

About Tabasco (McIlhenny Co.)
Founded in 1868, McIlhenny Company is a family-owned and operated manufacturer of Tabasco brand pepper sauce. Tabasco, perhaps the most famous of 150 pepper sauces available, actually started the pepper sauce industry. The company remains a leader in domestic pepper sauce with more than a 34 percent share of the market in the 1990s, as well as a longstanding provider of pepper sauce across the globe. As Mark Robichaux explained in the Wall Street Journal, the McIlhenny Company “still profits every day from developing the first widely sold hot sauce and, in essence, creating the market.”

To learn more about Tabasco, visit https://www.tabasco.com/

About ASAP Talent Services
ASAP Talent Services is a top SAP executive search firm and has been placing C-Suite and IT Executives for major Fortune 500 companies for over 17 years. For more information about the firm, please visit https://asaptalentservices.com/

For more information please contact Jeremy Sisemore, Partner at ASAP Talent Services at jeremy(at)asaptalentservices.com.com

SAP Completes Its Acquisition of CallidusCloud

05/16/2018 by Jeremy Sisemore

Earlier this year (2018), SAP completed its acquisition of CallidusCloud. How will this impact SAP’s CRM & Hybris Cloud Portfolio?

So far, it appears that SAP plans to consolidate CallidusCloud product assets within the SAP Hybris cloud portfolio, which is part of SAP’s Cloud Business Group. The acquisition of CallidusCloud completes SAP’s design of a new front office that extends beyond legacy CRM to an intelligent customer experience suite consisting of:

CallidusCloud solutions, which give companies tools to inspire and empower sales teams to follow leads to cash, compensation and career success
Gigya solutions, which help businesses adopting a digital approach to marketing, sales and service to initiate and build trusted relationships with online customers by appropriately managing and collecting customer data
SAP Hybris marketing solutions, which take a data-rich approach to helping marketers engage consumers throughout the buyer’s journey
SAP Hybris service solutions, which focus on customer retention and ensuring businesses can keep customers by predicting how best to serve them
SAP Hybris omnichannel commerce and revenue capabilities, which empower businesses to engage consumers in any channel and on any device, immediately converting transactions to revenue and growth

For more information: https://news.sap.com/sap-completes-acquisition-of-callidus-software-inc/

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