Contract, Contract-to-Direct and Direct Placement Overview

Depending on your criteria, Key will have three types of opportunities for you to consider in your job search. Based on what your preferences are and what you are open to, Key will work with you to find employment through one of the three options below.

Contract Assignments – The word ‘contract’ can sometimes be misleading. In the staffing industry, a contract position refers to a job opening that is not planned to be direct or permanent at the outset of the assignment. The client has the option to consider hiring a contract employee if they desire, but the duration is stated up front and there is a target ending date for the assignment.

As a contracted employee, Key Technical Professional Services, LLC is your employer, and you receive your pay and benefits through Key but work at the client location. Assignment durations typically range from several months to several years, and the actual duration of a particular assignment varies depending on the specific client situation.

Contract-to-Direct Assignments – This is when a client has the intent to fill a position permanently but chooses to start off with a contract employee. Once the employee successfully completes 1040 straight time hours on assignment, the client has the option to hire the employee directly without paying any sort of placement fee to Key Technical.

There are a variety of reasons that clients choose to utilize the contract-to-direct program, the most common being to make sure that they have the right person based on work performance and overall “fit” into the company and working environment.

As with any contract assignment, employment is with Key Technical Professional Services, LLC until the conversion takes place to direct status with the client company.

Direct Placement – This is where our client asks us to help them identify a qualified employee and we represent you for a direct position with the client. Upon successful interviewing and acceptance of a direct employment offer by you, the client pays Key a one time placement fee. There is no actual employment for you with Key Technical. The timeframe from the initial interview to an offer averages approximately three weeks, and usually there are multiple interviews with several different client contacts.