About Us Overview
Stop for a moment and remember how you saw the world when you started your first professional job. Brimming with passion and confidence, you couldn’t wait to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Nothing was impossible.
Fast forward to today. Some people followed those early dreams and have accomplished success only a lucky few experience. These are the people you will find at Skipping Stone. We have a mission to share our knowledge and experience in a way that fosters your success.
Founded in 1996, Skipping Stone is a professional resources company with over 200 clients worldwide. Our primary focus is the energy and related technologies industry. We serve clients by utilizing our expansive network of industry experienced professionals.
Chairman's Message
I get asked a lot about our Membership Network resourcing model because it is so different than our competitors. We adopted the model because it provides the best results for our clients. How?
When clients reach out to consulting or search firms for help, what they are really seeking is an experienced professional to help them solve a problem, work on a project or because they are short staff. Most consulting firms provide young, smart, but inexperienced people. When I was an energy industry executive it used to really bother me when consultants arrived and new less than I did. To avoid that, we instituted a standard for our network members that applicants must have a minimum of 5 years of actual industry experience.
Traditional consulting firms have employees who are either billing or on the beach. These companies need to keep employees off the beach or eat the cost. This creates an incentive to assign them whatever new work comes, regardless of how their skills fit the requirements. For clients this may mean paying for the learning curve and less than desirable results.
In our Member Network model, consultants are independent. This allows us to send clients the right person with the right skills, because we are not paying for beach time.
Most search firms use tradition methods to fill jobs; however they are not an active participant in our industry and have no ongoing relationship with potential candidates. In our network model, we have an ongoing relationship with potential candidates through our consulting or interim assignments and are active every day in the industry.
When it comes to understanding your business or describing the skill sets required, unlike typical search firms, we understand better because we are all from the industry.
If you believe, as I do, that the key to success is getting the best people on your team, then Skipping Stone would like to be your professional resources supplier.
Regards,
Peter Weigand
Chairman