The market
A support desk, on purpose
Volume IT staffing is a crowded, shrinking market — and we're not entering it head-on. This desk is deliberately built as the second call: it serves clients who already trust a Tethran desk with their build, their plant, or their books, and it's measured on the same published Hold Rate as every other desk. Depth over volume, on ground we already hold.
Who this desk places
The systems, infrastructure, and security roles that finish what the industrial and finance desks start.
Who buys in this market
Second call, same relationship
This desk sells where Tethran is already trusted — the same sites, the same clients, the same published number backing the placement.
Clients of the industrial desks
The GCs, owners, and operators the data center and energy desks serve — network, OT/IT, and security roles that sit on the same sites as the placements we've already made.
SAME SITESEnterprises replatforming
ERP migrations, cloud moves, and the systems analysts and project managers who actually land them — contract through the cutover, permanent for the seats that stay.
SYSTEMS SIDESecurity & infrastructure teams
Standing security and infrastructure seats where tenure matters more than time-to-fill — exactly the profile the Hold Rate was built to prove.
STANDING SEATSHow an engagement works
Three steps, no mystery
The desk takes the req
You brief recruiters who work enterprise systems and infrastructure for the industries Tethran serves — usually starting from a site or a project we already know. Rate guidance in the first conversation.
A short slate, screened for the environment
Candidates screened against the actual stack and site conditions — not keyword-matched from a database. No resume floods.
Attached through 180 days
Structured check-ins through the first six months, because every placement — contract and permanent — counts toward the published Hold Rate, and the Hold Guarantee is already in your agreement.
IT staffing's churn is legendary — and every fall-off means a re-onboarding, a security review, and a project that slides. The Hold Rate is the share of our placements still in seat or contract-complete at 180 days: audited, covering every placement, published quarterly from Q1 2027 — and this desk's number will publish on its own line from its first placement.
For candidates · Benefits
Contract work, built like a career
Volume staffing treats a contract placement as a line item. A career desk treats it as one stop on a longer track — which is why the benefits look more like what a permanent employer offers than what a 1099 shop hands you.
Health & dental
Coverage available from your first day on eligible W-2 placements, contract or permanent — not after a waiting period.
Retirement access
Retirement plan access on eligible W-2 placements — plan details published when the desk opens.
PTO accrual
Paid time off accrues on qualifying long-duration contract placements, not just permanent seats.
Credential reimbursement
Network, cloud, and security certifications reimbursed once a placement holds past six months.
Fast-track re-verification
Once we've screened you, later placements skip redundant paperwork — your file travels with you inside the desk.
Personal Hold record
Every placement, how long it held, what it led to next — a portable record you own from placement one.
Eligibility varies by placement type and duration — the desk walks you through exactly what applies before your first submittal, and this benefits summary appears on every desk page, because it's the first question both sides ask.
For candidates · Career compass
The map publishes with the desk
Every open Tethran desk carries a career compass — entry paths, credentials, rungs, and pay bands drawn from that desk's own placements, refreshed as its Hold Rate dataset grows.
The founding desks are drawing theirs now — see the Data Centers & Telecom desk for what a live one looks like. Early-list candidates on this desk help draw the first version: the entry paths and credential guidance it publishes are built from your placements first.
Opening 2027 · Get in early
This desk opens in 2027. The early list is open now.
Desks open when the founding playbook proves out — and each one opens the way the first two did: early clients shape the bench, early candidates start their Hold record from placement one.
The first clients shape the desk
Early conversations set which roles the bench is built around, which environments get coverage first, and how the Hold Guarantee terms are written for how IT engagements actually run.
The first candidates get the first calls
Early-list members get the desk's first reqs when it opens, founding status in the desk community, and a personal Hold record that starts from placement one.