Thanks to our consultants, we can present an enormous amount of expert knowledge. Every IT professional has a relentless need to expand his or her knowledge. In order to support our training and networking activities, we have surrounded ourselves with the best partners. You can expect us to stay up to date on any new relevant developments, allowing us to establish new creative partnerships. We are always looking for new collaborations with renowned partners. They represent valuable information and inspiration for our own employees and clients, from an independent and expert position. • Java Black Belt: Dating back to the end of 2006, we have been maintaining good contacts with Java Black Belt. This forum was created for and by Java professionals and offers us a detailed Skill Scan for our screening procedure, in a specially tuned USG Innotiv ICT Black Belt portal. We can also count on their technical back up when we visit or host Java events and seminars. • Microsoft: Our Microsoft Certified Partnership is established by our projects and our consultants working with this technology. This reinforces our position at all Microsoft events, seminars and releases. It also defines our presence at Microsoft Tech Days. • IBM: We have regular and direct collaborations with IBM for expert seminars to introduce novelties in the mainframe market to our developers and analysts. • SkillSoft: the most powerful and most flexible way of training for any IT consultant. SkillSoft (http://www.skillsoft.com/) has proven to be a trustworthy partner that provides unlimited access to over 5000 technical training modules. This independent partner offer us a corporate SkillPort platform (http://usginnotiv.skillport.com/) and a 24x7 online book service (www.books24x7.com) which contains over 10.000 available titles. • IKM: The ‘International Knowledge Management’ provides multiple solutions for measuring knowledge and other services like knowledge and skill assessments, certification, personalized testing and advisory reviews. The IKM tools help us to screen our applicants more objectively and to better focus our development plans. • Thomas International: The profile analyses by Thomas International (DISC model) is consulted to chart professional behavioural characteristics. This helps us to establish a tailor-made and personal approach while coaching both employees and new candidates. • Jobsites: Our collaborations with Monster, Stepstone, VDAB, ICTJob, Jobat, etc… span from ad hoc visibility actions and sponsorship of job fairs to far-reaching contracts for CV searches and job postings. The latter represents an important part of our intake of new candidates and an elaborate branding platform. • Social Partners: All social partners organise their own set of training courses with target groups that could be interesting for our sector. We sustain professional contacts with these partners by consulting them on job interview training, providing technical sessions or introducing them into the habits of the project sourcing market.