Many of our Customers have hard to fill positions based upon growth, attrition, and technologically changing requirements. The Cornerstone Defense recruiting process is hands-on, leading to the creation and maintenance of a “virtual bench” of longtime contacts with highly desirable skills. While a candidate may not currently be on the market, we are able to identify the types of opportunities that may turn a passive candidate into an active resource. Our ability to keep our Customer’s staffing pool populated has helped Cornerstone Defense grow and deliver a proven team of qualified technologists, keeping our Customers’ missions fully staffed with skilled individuals.

One of Cornerstone Defense’s strongest capabilities is finding and hiring individuals for Key positions. 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 recruiting team, but also by topical domain experts, to ensure a candidate’s claimed expertise is relevant, accurate, and current. This is one of the many steps in our proven recruitment process that enables us to deliver such a high interview to hire ratio.

While the majority of our recruiting effort is focused on funded programs and positions, we also seek and find candidates for future positions and programs. These can be for unfunded positions on existing programs or for anticipated future work, as well as proposal submissions. The same meticulous process is exercised while vetting candidates, along with executing NDAs and LOIs, to protect work and ensure a viable proposed staff.

Cornerstone Defense’s recruiters follow both traditional and non-traditional recruitment methodologies, developing and maintaining personal and professional networks of qualified candidates. By identifying candidates before they reach the market, Cornerstone Defense delivers resources that are not found through the traditional job-board resume search, broadening the talent pool available for our mission critical programs.

The Cornerstone Defense’s recruitment process does not stop the day the candidate starts with our company, but rather it migrates into a retention phase. Regular touch points are fostered with our employees, allowing us to understand our employees personal and professional goals, thereby reducing costly program attrition. By continuously connecting with our employees, we mitigate any atmosphere or impression that our employees are just a number. Understanding our team members’ goals increases the retention of our high-level employees on our Customers’ programs, eliminating the traditional “brain-drain” that occurs with attrition.

With nearly 200 employees, Cornerstone Defense continues to grow as a direct result of finding and hiring proven employees across our business sectors. Our employees are deeply embedded and trusted experts across our Customer base and provide direct on-site support to nationally critical missions.