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Episode: 620
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Title: HPR0620: Klaatu holds an interview with Tek Systems
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0620/hpr0620.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 23:58:01
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I'm going to interview people.
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I just keep doing it.
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Everyone, this is class two, and I'm at Southeast Linnock's Fest, 2010.
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And I'm sitting here at the TechSystem booth, speaking to Nikki Watson.
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Nikki Watson, I'm Nikki.
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So what is TechSystems?
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We're an IT staffing firm, and we're nationwide.
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We have about 90 offices located nationwide.
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And we provide IT staffing for anyone and everyone in the technical realm.
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Okay, so this means that I could get a job, potentially?
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You could.
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Our local office is here in Greenville, South Carolina, which is how we became affiliated with the
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the Southeastern Linnock's Fest this year.
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But we do, we have offices in every state, you know, have a huge database of local or technical talent.
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Okay, so I'm sure this is probably all available on your website or something,
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but just maybe give me a little rundown.
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Like, so if I wanted to apply or get into your database or whatever, what would some of the steps be?
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Well, depending on where you're located or for many locations, really, you can go to our website,
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which is www.TechSystems.com.
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And that's Tech with T-E-K, right?
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Correct.
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That's Tech with T-E-K and even S on systems.
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But you can click on locations from our website and click on any of our locations and contact that office
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and just let the person that answers that local office know that you're looking for a position
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and they'll point you in the right direction of a recruiter that can help you.
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Okay, so a couple of things come to mind.
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So I mean, I'm not looking for jobs right now, but I've been looking for jobs before.
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And like, monster.com and all these other sort of like career sites or whatever, they kind of suck
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and I get a lot of spam from them.
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So how are you different?
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We are different. It's always best not always tell people it's best to make a phone call to someone.
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Don't just submit your resume via email to like, thank them a job or a monster.
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It just kind of gets lost sometimes in cyber spaces.
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It's always best to make a phone call and that's a good thing about TechSystems.
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You can get our website and you can even do job searches.
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So if you're a cobalt developer or if you're a Linux administrator or whatever,
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you can type in Linux in the search box and it'll pull up all the positions that we have posted nationwide.
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And so if you see a position, there's usually a recruiter's name associated with that position.
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Call that recruiter, let them know what you're looking for.
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They'll get your contact information.
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You can send your resume personally to the recruiter.
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And that's probably the most helpful and best advice I can give to those who are looking for work.
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So that means that the jobs that are actually posted on your site are real jobs,
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that are companies that are looking for places.
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So what about, let's just assume that I have some experience in the technical realm.
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I'm not like a super IT pro.
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I'm looking to get started in this career path, but I don't maybe have a whole lot of,
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maybe my resume isn't great.
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Are there positions for that sort of thing that you're going to be looking for?
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Sure, we do work on all levels of IT positions.
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Our client's nationwide will contact us with positions of varying skill levels, entry level all the way to a more senior level.
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And what you can do is, depending on the location where you're looking for work,
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call those that local tech systems office.
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You can call in and just let someone know that, hey, I'm looking to get into IT,
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they'll direct you to the proper recruiter and then you can kind of go from there,
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getting your resume to that recruiter and just letting them know what your background is,
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what you're looking to do, so that when we do have an entry level position open,
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we can contact you and give you the details in specific.
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Alright, cool. So is this something that you should kind of start?
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I mean, obviously it's not. It's probably not going to just you call and then suddenly you have a job.
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I mean, how long does this normally take? Or does it, does that sometimes happen?
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It does. Sometimes, you know, it can be a really quick process where, you know,
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we have a specific job that's open, someone contacts us and the process moves very quickly,
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even at a standard something that is a very, you know, just kind of all lines up
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where you're looking and we actually have a position open,
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it still takes about two to four weeks to get you through the screening process
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and hiring process, paperwork, and all that involved.
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But I've been working with Section 8 where it's taking me a few months to help them,
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depending on what skill set they have.
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And that's, you know, I've worked with those who may be working,
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but are looking for different opportunities.
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That was, yeah, that's what I was going to ask, yeah.
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And so, you know, I say in touch with people multiple years sometimes
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and just depends on, you know, what they're looking for and what we have coming available.
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Okay, well, that is actually really cool.
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What's the big catch? Like, why does tech systems exist?
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Like, I don't understand, because if you're just helping find people,
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helping people find jobs, you know, like,
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how do you guys stay in business or whatever?
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I mean, yeah.
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You've got, like, just, you know, friends who help me, you know, hook me up.
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You're the healthier, yeah.
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Exactly. We're a career consultant.
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That's a good way to spend it.
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We're here to kind of tell you what's in the market.
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You know, our clients, we know companies all over,
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contact us as well.
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You know, wanting to know what kind of people are out there looking,
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you know, what kind of talent is out there.
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We kind of combine the two.
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We combine the fact that we, you know,
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we have the talent, the technical talent,
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and people out there that we're trying to help.
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And then also we are in on the company side,
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knowing what they're looking for,
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that kind of make a connection between the two.
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Okay, I got it.
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And so it sounds like you are pretty,
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you probably cover a pretty broad spectrum then.
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It's like not just the system admins or whatever,
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but it's like programmers, whatever.
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You do entry level, PC technician positions,
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development, you know, anything, applications,
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very cool.
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That sounds, yeah, it sounds neat.
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So, okay, I guess your website again,
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just so that we have it.
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Yes, it's www.techsystems.com, and that's PEK.
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Cool.
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Thanks for talking to me.
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All right.
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Bye.
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Thank you very much.
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