Ferguson is committed to giving IT consultants what you want in today’s world:

• Respect for your expertise and the chance to put it to work.
• Openness and honesty – getting straight answers, knowing where you stand.
• Training and work opportunities to enhance your marketability.
• And, of course, attractive compensation and benefits – including profit sharing.

What You’re Looking For
At Ferguson, we are continually focused on the success of our clients and our consultants. Reflecting that focus, we’ve built an organization that’s designed to meet the needs of the consultants who meet the needs of the clients.

Image of businesspeople in a meeting.The Ferguson partners are actively involved in every aspect of the day-to-day operations, from sales to finance to operations. The flexibility of being an entrepreneurial, privately owned company allows us to get to know each consultant’s strengths. We work with you to enhance your marketability, and we continually find ways to put your expertise to work for clients. We take pride in giving our consultants plenty of opportunities to update and enhance their skills and make themselves as employable as possible. Just as important, we work very hard to establish and maintain relationships with clients to ensure there is work in the pipeline for our consultants.

Our goal is to continually have our consultants prepared for the next job. For example, through the prestigious Center for the Application of Information Technology at Washington University we offer the training our consultants need – and our clients demand – to keep our staff on the leading edge of technology. While our consultants focus on providing expert-level service to our clients and work to stay sharp technically, Ferguson takes care of the rest – a full array of benefits designed to help you keep your focus on your career. We also counsel our consultants on the best opportunities based on our knowledge of current trends in the IT industry. If IT consulting is the path you’ve chosen, Ferguson will give you the tools to sustain long-term employment.

We’ll always provide straight answers to your questions.

Our Operations Managers are dedicated to helping consultants manage their careers. They know the pitfalls of IT consulting, and the training and experience consultants need to succeed in a changing environment.

Ferguson offers consultants a choice between salaried employment and billable hours employment. We provide full pay to salaried consultants for idle time between assignments, although we’ve been successful in keeping bench time to a minimum.

We base compensation on technical expertise, experience and market demand, and we offer real profit sharing. In 2009, we distributed profits resulting in a full share of $3,024 per consultant, and we expect to pay a similar amount in 2010.

Ferguson knows that benefits are a big part of your compensation. That’s why we offer a full package of benefits for you and your family.

What We’re Looking For
Ferguson has been successfully meeting the challenges of a demanding IT business environment since 1993 without significant layoffs, because we’ve always focused on choosing consultants with the qualities necessary to meet the needs of our clients.

That means, for starters,

  • top-notch technical expertise
  • strong written and verbal communication skills
  • a proven track record of successful work for clients

But how our consultants work with clients, and with each other, is as important as what they can do. The ideal Ferguson consultant is enthusiastic, flexible, realistic – and easy to work with.

Successful consultants at Ferguson

  • are team players (because we focus on results, not titles)
  • are self-directed (because we don’t tell people how to do their jobs)
  • thrive on change (because we respond quickly to client needs)

Ultimately, we’re looking for consultants who are committed to adding value to our clients by providing innovative IT solutions to their business challenges – consultants who believe, as we do, that exceptional performance should be the standard.

If you have what it takes…
If you have the skills and the qualities necessary to join the Ferguson team of best-in-class IT professionals, contact us. Look here for descriptions of skill sets for positions that may be available.

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