100% Client retention, 97% Employee retention, 41 Fortune 500 Clients. Numbers that add up to an unparalleled client experience.
If you’ve experienced poor service, inconsistent candidate quality, inflexible business practices or any of the other shortcomings, it’s a clear sign you need a new hiring partner. One who values your business and puts your needs ahead of everything else. One like Crescent. As a full-service IT Solutions Company with an exemplary array of value-propositions, we’re confident if you try Crescent once, you won’t think twice about using us again.
And as with our Mission, Vision and Values, working with us is simple and straight to the point…
Our Mission: Everyone wins!
Our Vision: Build relationships. Keep them for life!
Our Core Value: Lead by example. Measure by results.
Employee Spotlight: Morgan Sabo
What is your role at Crescent Solutions?
Technical Recruiter
How long have you been at Crescent?
1 year
What is your favorite Crescent memory? What is your Best day at Crescent Solutions?
Best day was more like a weekend. It was the 2011 Crescent retreat in Palm Desert CA. This being my first company retreat I did not know what to expect. I heard stories, myths, and legends of “Half Gainers”, “Cigars”, “BBQ”, and Comradery. That weekend has too many stories to paraphrase.
What do you enjoy doing with family?
Family Ski Trips and scuba diving.
What is the greatest thing about working for Crescent Solutions?
The Comradery and the passion behind what we do.
What was your greatest accomplishment of the past year (personal or professional)?
My biggest accomplishment/choice was making the switch to the Crescent LA office.
Who do you admire most?
My Paps
What does extraordinary customer service mean to you?
Doing everything in your power to make the customer happy.
Always leave the customer with a smile and no questions un-answered.
When you leave the customer they should always be willing to recommend you.
Above and beyond is your “reasonable” service.
Always smile and always be polite, even on your worst days.
What is your most rewarding/proudest moment since you joined the company?
Hearing the thank “yous” from those we put to work. Especially those who have not had the opportunity with a company that we can offer them.
What is the strangest request you’ve had from a contractor/client/vendor?
“Can you speak in a higher tone? I can’t hear you when you because you talk so low.”
Employee Spotlight: Adam Stephen
What is your role at Crescent Solutions?
Employee Spotlight: Stephanie Le
1. What is your role at Crescent Solutions? Operations Manager of the LA office
2. How long have you been at Crescent? Since December! I’m totally a newbie still.
3. What do you like most about working for Crescent Solutions? Definitely the people. I’ve worked in sales for a long time and the people here really make a difference in the working environment.
4. Do you have a Nickname? Sle or as Rich calls me, DJ Sle.
5. What are your passions/interests outside of work? Humanities — music, art, culture, literature, etc.
6. What is the greatest thing about working for Crescent Solutions? I think that my favorite thing about Crescent, especially coming from a different tech recruiting background is learning how the people at Crescent really care about one another’s successes and really care about the community. Michael Chiang teaches a junior achievement class, as himself but also on behalf of Crescent Solutions and that to me is a truly inspiring way to embody your career. I think it’s a true representation of the corporate culture at Crescent Solutions.
7. What was your greatest accomplishment of the past year (personal or professional)? I drove across country alone, I slept in my car, I walked around town squares in random cities and hiked the grand canyon…it was the most liberating and best experience of my life.
8. What is the strangest request you’ve had from a contractor/client/vendor? I already had a contractor ask me what an exclamation point looks like.
Employee Spotlight: Derek Barro
1. What is your role at Crescent Solutions? Controller (of everything)
2. How long have you been at Crescent? Over 4 ½ years
3. What is your favorite Crescent memory? What is your Best day at Crescent Solutions? Favorite memory is from one of our retreats years ago. Fristoe and Edmiston were laughing and trying to get under Steve Mitchell’s skin. Eventually it worked and Steve came leaping over the theater seating area to land on both Fristoe and Edmiston. They both quickly tapped out after not being able to breath. I was front row and center for that, they never had a chance. There is no sight more impressive than Steve Mitchell flying over sofas (like a circus monkey) to land square on his prey and ending the struggle in one swift motion.
4. Do you have a Nickname? Bar Stool Barro. Bearded One.
5. Before working here, What was the most interesting job you’ve ever done? Loss Prevention at the UCSB bookstore. Got to sit in a room with tons of cameras looking for people stealing from the bookstore. I apprehended my fair share of thieves and hoodlums. Some were just fined and released while others were taken away by the police, depending on their actions.
6. Are you married? Pets? Kids? What do you enjoy doing with family? Yes. I am married to my lovely wife Amy. We have two dogs named Leia and Stella. No kids yet.
Employee Spotlight: Stephanie Phillips
Mission, Vision, and Values Director
1. How long have you worked for Crescent Solutions? I have been with Crescent Solutions for one year. A friend of mine told me that Crescent Solutions had the perfect job just for me. I interviewed and got the job! What I didn’t know at the time was that I couldn’t have picked a better job for myself, and I couldn’t be more grateful to be working for Crescent Solutions.
2. What do you like most about working for Crescent Solutions? The people! I love that we find great people for great jobs at great companies. It is such an rewarding thing to help people flourish in their career paths and be able to be their cheerleaders thru the good and friend in trials. The people here at Crescent Solutions are like family and that is how we treat people that we work with on a daily basis. Crescent Solutions is made up of amazing individually talented people that bring so much to the team. I look forward to work every day with likeminded personally invested people that take pride in the fact that we work hard and go the extra mile for others. That is what makes us so different!
3. What is the best advice that you can give to others? In college I had a college professor ask us this question. He asked us “What would you do for the rest of your life regardless of whether or not you got paid.” Nothing gives me greater joy then to see people using their gifts and talents to impact our world because then they are truly fulfilled and thriving. At Crescent Solutions we can encourage people to work in those capacities that they can grow and flourish.
4. What is my favorite CS memory? This last year is filled with about one hundred favorite memories that I can start listing off. For sake of talking for hours I will talk about two of them. The first favorite is at our CEO’s birthday party. Our CEO Brian surprised his grandmother, mom, and wife by singing a song that he prepared in advance for them. Brian is a great example of a life filled with open arms to anyone and it translates throughout the company and is part of our culture. My second favorite memory is talking with a contractor who told me that he couldn’t be more grateful to Crescent Solutions for developing his entire career. He told me that his recruiter is not his recruiter but his friend for life.
Employee Spotlight: Eric Strength
Eric Strength – In the Spotlight!
“First, let me say…I’m not a huge fan of the spotlight. It’s a little too hot and bright! ”
1. How long have you been at Crescent? Since Day 1. Back in 2002. 6 guys. 3 extra bedrooms. VERY limited air conditioning. We weren’t much more than a webpage and a couple telephones. No business cards. No fancy marketing material. And the worst part of all – no clients!
2. What do you like most about working for Crescent Solutions? Crescent Solutions is so much more to me than just a job. The company – MY company – has pushed me in so many different areas creating remarkable growth both as a valued business partner as well as an everyday individual. I like the fact that I can come in every day and make a new contact, set up a new meeting, break a new account, all while making a new friend.
3. What is something that people don’t know about you? I’ve lived in three different cities that end in the word Beach. Huntington, Newport, and Redondo.
4. What is the best advice/ quote/ words to live by that you can give to others? “Put your pants on one leg at a time”. I’ve tried to do two legs at once and it doesn’t end pretty.
5. Funny Memory? The very first guy I placed on an Engineering project (back in 1998, way before Crescent) parked in the President’s spot on his first day. Still funny 13 years later!
Employee Spotlight on Brian Batistic
1. What is your role at Crescent Solutions?
CIA/ Central Intelligence Agent
2. How long have you been at Crescent?
Going on 8 years
3. What do you like most about working for Crescent Solutions?
Working with the great people here and contributing to training new hires
4. Do you have a Nickname?
Big Papa
5. What are you most inspired by?
My boys Tyler and Matthew
6. What are your passions/interests outside of work?
Tyler/Matthew (Sons), Music, Movies, Raiders/Lakers/Cardinals
7. Before working here, What was the most interesting job you’ve ever done?
I was a Full Line Cook at a Mexican restaurant during college
8. Are you married? Pets? Kids? What do you enjoy doing with family?
Yes to my understanding wife Laura, have 2 boys, Tyler and Matthew, 1 dog Misty, 2 cats Raider and Lego
9. What is the greatest thing about working for Crescent Solutions?
The people I work with
10. What does extraordinary customer service mean to you?
It means doing whatever needs to be done to get the job completed, even if it’s not on the job description
EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT ON THACHER GRAUER
1. What is your role at Crescent Solutions?
Partner Manager
2. How long have you been at Crescent?
September of 2010
3. What do you like most about working for Crescent Solutions?
This is a very exciting time for all of us at Crescent. As the economy continues its gradual recovery, our business and our relationships will grow in kind. Crescent has wonderful people.
4. What is your background? What is the most significant trend that you’ve seen in your field?
I came from IT hardware distribution. I used to sell and distribute tier 1 data center servers, storage, and network products to VARs nationwide who would in turn distribute to their clients. The biggest trend I see is virtualization and a shifting focus towards managed services. Big data is hurting enterprise firms nationwide, and our solutions can help.
5. Do you have a Nickname?
Thach
6. What is something that most people would NOT know about you?
I’m a nerd. I love learning and love to read. I read with my blackberry next to me so I can research nuanced words as I come across them.
7. What are you most inspired by?
Creativity. Creativity and humility.
8. Who do you admire most?
My mother—just an unbelievable person in every way.
