Cost per day, per unfilled role
Delivery slips while the requisition sits open and the work gets absorbed by a team that is already full.
Boutique technology recruitment & managed services
ServiceNow, SAP, AI, Cloud and Data. Our recruiters are technologists, and every shortlist is vetted by a subject matter expert working in the same stack. You get interview-ready people, not a pile of resumes.
Now placing ServiceNow architects SAP S/4HANA consultants Cloud and data engineers IAM security analysts Fractional CTOs
The problem
Traditional tech recruitment trades weeks of delay for specialist talent, or trades candidate quality for speed. Neither one is acceptable when a roadmap is on the line.
Delivery slips while the requisition sits open and the work gets absorbed by a team that is already full.
Keyword matching against broad talent pools produces off-target shortlists and long vacancies on specialist roles.
The wrong hire costs you the salary, the ramp time, and the search all over again three months later.
Calendar days, drawn to the same scale
That sliver is the same scale as the bar above it.
The real cost is not the fee. It is the delivery time lost while a requisition stays open, plus the cost of replacing a hire that does not stick. Our model is built to remove both.
Our approach
Machine speed on sourcing. Human judgement on assessment. Neither one works alone at the top of the market.
An instant scan of the global talent pool, including the passive people who never answer a job posting. Market mapping and outreach in hours, not weeks.
Deep technical interviews run by practitioners in the same stack. Technical depth, communication and team fit are all assessed before anything reaches you.
A single point of contact owns the requisition end to end. No handoffs between sourcers, coordinators, recruiters and SMEs, and no repeating yourself.
Typical funnel, one niche role
Agility against a contingency agency
Fill rate
Agility IT
Fill rate
Traditional agency
Retention
First year, Agility
Traditional contingency fill rates run 20 to 30% on niche SAP and ServiceNow roles, with 50 to 60% first-year retention.
The result
How we are structured
Most clients start with a role and grow into delivery. Both divisions sit under the same commercial relationship, so nothing gets renegotiated when the scope changes.
Placing individual specialists into your teams, on your paper or ours.
Where you need an outcome rather than a resume, we deliver the work with certified practitioners.
Quality control
Every candidate clears the same five-step screen regardless of role, seniority or how urgent the requirement is.
Every candidate self-verifies with a government-issued ID. It sounds basic. It is also the step that catches the identity fraud the contract market has been dealing with for the last three years.
Employment history and credentials are validated line by line. Certifications are confirmed against the issuing platform, not taken on trust from a PDF.
We obtain written consent before we submit. You never receive the same person from two suppliers, and the candidate always knows exactly where their profile has gone.
Criminal record checks and reference verification through HireRight or Sterling BGV, matched to whatever your client-site compliance requires.
All candidate communication complies with Canadian anti-spam legislation, with consent records kept against every profile we hold.
We hand over interview-ready profiles, not raw resumes.
Where we go deep
We are not a generalist agency with a technology page. These are the stacks our own consultants work in, which is why our screening holds up.
ITSM, ITOM, CMDB, SecOps, HRSD, CSM and complex platform customization, led by Certified Master Architects.
S/4HANA, Basis, FICO, SuccessFactors, ABAP, security architecture and Joule AI across implementation, migration and run support.
End-to-end RPA and AI automation programs, agent frameworks, MLOps and the engineering talent to keep them running.
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud architecture, platform engineering, DevSecOps, and Adobe Experience Manager delivery.
Data engineering, platform modernization, governance and analytics, from pipeline builders to heads of data.
Defensive security, identity and access management, compliance programs and security architecture across regulated environments.
Share of completed placements, January 2025 to 2026
Tier-1 Canadian banks, insurers and capital markets, direct and through partner channels.
Grid, generation and retail energy platforms across Alberta and beyond.
Federal and provincial programs in Canada and the United States.
Global SIs and consultancies who need niche skills delivered on their paper.
Delivery model
We have built full delivery teams across three time zones for clients who needed capacity faster than their own hiring process could move. The commercial envelope stays the same. The blend is yours to choose.
Talk through a build planBlend the three and a requirement raised at 5pm in Calgary is being worked before you are back at your desk.
Calgary, Toronto, New Jersey. Client-site, security-cleared and time-zone aligned.
Brazil and Mexico. Overlapping hours with North American delivery at a lower blended rate.
Bengaluru and the Philippines. Deep platform benches for run support and scaled build.
The difference
How we compare against a traditional contingency agency on the measures that actually affect delivery.
| Traditional agency | Agility IT | |
|---|---|---|
| Turnaround time | 1 to 3 weeks | 24 to 48 hours |
| Vetting process | Keyword matching by generalists | FTS screening by technical SMEs |
| Fill rate | 20 to 30% | 80%+ on niche SAP and ServiceNow roles |
| First-year retention | 50 to 60% | 95%+ |
| Cost structure | Hidden markups | Transparent, fixed spread |
| After the hire | Nothing | Talent Care and account management stay on the engagement |
Next step
A vetted shortlist back within 48 hours. No retainer, no exclusivity, and no fee on a role we do not fill.
Client Relations & Talent Strategy · +1 587-500-7414 · contact@agilityit.ca