A staffing agency made for the Orlando economy.

For contract and temporary placements, you pay a bill rate that bundles the worker’s pay, payroll taxes, benefits, insurance, and our margin. Direct hire fees are generally 18–25% of first-year salary depending on seniority and search complexity. We quote transparent pricing up front, including break-even conversion math for contract-to-hire engagements, so there are no surprises in month four when you want to convert a contractor. For cleared defense roles the math is slightly different because the candidate pool is narrower. We walk you through it before an SOW is signed.

Standard IT, finance, and admin roles often fill in 3–5 business days from pre-vetted local pools. Specialized searches like cleared simulation engineers, Epic analysts, or senior finance leadership typically run 2–4 weeks. Our overall average across all Orlando searches last year was 17 days. We would rather move fast on the searches where speed is possible and be honest about the ones where speed is not.

Yes, and that is a big part of why we have a dedicated Orlando practice. Team Orlando, Lockheed Martin, Northrop, and the broader simulation community pull almost exclusively from cleared and clearable candidate pools, and the overlap between those pools and the general tech market is small. We work active clearance and interim clearance candidates, plus the sponsor-to-clear side for firms willing to invest. Different sourcing channels than commercial IT. Different compensation math too.

Absolutely. Roughly 40% of our Orlando engagements cross verticals because the parent companies here do. Darden corporate finance one quarter, their loyalty platform tech stack the next. AdventHealth on Epic analyst searches this year, their finance shared services center next. One account manager, one sourcing workflow, consistent quality. Our retention guarantee covers every placement regardless of vertical.

National firms run playbooks built for averages. We run playbooks built for this specific market. We know which Orlando companies are actually hiring versus just posting, which comp bands close offers in Lake Nona versus Altamonte Springs, which cleared candidates are genuinely in motion versus counteroffer-shopping, and which hospitality back-office roles require real industry experience versus generic corporate chops. Ground-level intelligence beats a national database search every time.

Regularly. The startup and growth-stage scene here is smaller than Austin or Raleigh, but it is real and it is accelerating, particularly around Lake Nona life sciences, the fintech-adjacent credit union tech ecosystem, and a handful of gaming and SaaS studios. We understand startup comp, equity conversations, and the kind of candidates who thrive in early-stage environments versus enterprise. We also know when a growth-stage candidate is the wrong match for a stable corporate role, which is a harder conversation to have but saves everyone time.