Regular touch points are fostered with our employees after they join Cornerstone, allowing us to accomplish our goal of finding, hiring, growing, and subsequently retaining our employees. By continuously connecting with our employees on a personal, individual, and in person basis, we mitigate the impression many contractors have of “being left on an island by themselves.” These connections help create the family first feeling and help prevent future attrition.

At Cornerstone Defense, our recruiters are akin to sports agents, staying alongside our “athletes” throughout their entire journey with us. They transcend the traditional role of filling positions to create enduring relationships with the employees they onboard. Their dedication extends beyond hiring, focusing on employees’ satisfaction within their roles, the clients they serve, and the mission. This approach fosters high retention, mitigating the typical “brain drain” from employee turnover and ensuring a stable and satisfied workforce.

Cornerstone Defense boasts an extensive Talent Pool of vetted individuals chosen for their high-level technical skills and proven capabilities/skills. Each member has been personally interviewed and assessed, ensuring a bench of top tier candidates. We maintain active relationships with all candidates engaging with them even in the absence of immediate openings. This strategy allows Cornerstone to offer top-notch talent to our clients’ missions at short notice, substantially reducing the lead time to fill a position. This agility in meeting human resource demands underscores our commitment to rapid, effective service delivery.

Our Recruiters work closely with our Customers to fully understand positions, programs, clearance requirements, and market constraints. Each candidate is screened, not only by our sourcing and recruitment team, but also by topical domain experts, ensuring that a candidate’s claimed expertise is relevant, accurate, and current. By vetting these candidates prior to customer submission, we not only reduce the amount of time our customers’ spend reviewing our resumes, but also increase our submission to interview ratio.

Understanding that the best candidates never “need” a new job, our team doesn’t just scour the typical resume job boards for posted resumes, but actively engage in various networking events throughout the community. Our team hosts monthly happy hours, bi-weekly dinners, and more pointed one on one meetings with individuals that did not start their day off looking for a new job. Due to the infectious and inclusive company culture that we have created, our direct staff has turned into some of our best Recruiters, routinely inviting their friends to Cornerstone events.