Trova finds qualified talent while your team stays in control of the work.
Based in Winter Park, we support companies throughout Orlando and Central Florida, as well as organizations nationwide, with individual placements, contract teams, temporary coverage, and contract-to-hire needs.
Add experienced contract professionals to close skill gaps, meet deadlines, and keep important work moving.
Add Capacity
When Your Team Needs It
A missing skill, open position, or sudden increase in work can slow your business down. However, the need may not call for a permanent employee.
Staff augmentation helps you keep work moving while giving you more flexibility than a permanent hire.
It may be the right choice when you need to:
- Support a major project or system rollout
- Cover an employee leave or temporary vacancy
- Add skills your current team does not have
- Manage a short-term increase in workload
- Maintain progress during a permanent search
As a result, your team can stay productive without making a long-term hiring decision too soon.
What Is
Staff Augmentation?
Staff augmentation is a contract staffing model that adds outside professionals to your current team.
Your managers direct each professional’s daily work, priorities, and schedule. Meanwhile, Trova recruits and employs the professional and provides payroll and assignment support.
Unlike outsourced project delivery, staff augmentation keeps the work under your control. The professional works within your tools, processes, and team structure.
Assignments may last a few weeks, several months, or longer, depending on the need. This can give you the ultimate flexibility with your budgets, especially given the flexibility of the resource not being on your payroll.
Scale your team without adding the long-term costs of a permanent employee.
Staff augmentation gives you access to experienced talent when you need it, with the flexibility to use project or capital funding when appropriate and adjust or end the engagement as your business needs change.
This could be part time, fractional, or completely in lieu of permanent resources.
Staff Augmentation and Contract Staffing Solutions
Every staffing need is different. You may need one specialist, several professionals for a major project, temporary coverage, or a path to permanent employment.
Trova can shape a staff augmentation or contract staffing solution around the work, timeline, and level of support your team needs.
Individual Staff Augmentation
Add one professional to fill a skill gap, support a department, or provide temporary coverage.
This option works well when your team has a clear need but does not require a larger outside group.
Contract Project Teams
Build a team of contract professionals for a major project, implementation, transformation, or backlog.
Trova can help you add several people with related skills while your leaders continue to direct the work. Just hiring full time talent to solve a problem is often not as effective as this solution, which will cost you less in the long run.
Temporary Staff Augmentation
Temporary staff augmentation can help maintain progress while an employee is on leave, a role remains open, or your company moves through a period of change.
You can adjust the assignment as your needs change.
Contract-to-Hire Staffing
Start someone as a contract professional with the option to hire that person later. This gives both sides time to evaluate the role, work style, and long-term fit through real work.
This is a great way combat the overwhelming problem with resumes and interviews, they lack the substance of actual work performance in the jobs you need do while you observe it.
How Trova Finds the Right Contract Professionals
Trova treats recruiting as a discovery process, not a résumé transaction.
We follow a focused process to define the need, reach qualified professionals, evaluate each match, and support the assignment after the person starts.
01.
Understand
the Real Need
We start by understanding the work that needs to get done, where your team needs support, and what will make the assignment successful.
What We Define Together
Why You Need Help:
We look at what created the need, whether it is a project deadline, employee leave, open role, or increase in workload.
What Needs to Get Done:
We define the priorities, responsibilities, and results that will make the assignment successful.
Skills Needed From the Start
We identify the systems, tools, technical knowledge, and past experience the person needs to contribute quickly.
How the Person Will Work With Your Team
We learn who will manage the professional, how the team communicates, and how the work gets done.
Timing and Work Arrangement
We confirm the start date, expected assignment length, schedule, and whether the work is onsite, hybrid, or remote.
The Right Staffing Approach
We consider the need as a whole and help determine whether staff augmentation, contract-to-hire, Direct Hire, or another approach makes the most sense.
With the need clearly defined, Trova can recommend the right staffing approach and build the search around the work you need accomplished.
If another hiring solution would better support the outcome, we will tell you.
02.
Search Beyond
Active Candidates
With the need clearly defined, Trova combines targeted recruiting with a professional network built over decades to identify qualified professionals, including those who may not be actively looking for a new opportunity.
Less than 5% of Trova’s candidates come from traditional job postings and job boards. Instead, more than 75% come through a highly cultivated network of professionals and relationships.
That matters because many of the professionals we reach are already known to Trova through direct relationships, past interactions, or shared connections.
We may already understand their experience, work history, strengths, and professional reputation.
03.
Evaluate
the Match
Trova reviews more than a résumé. We look at whether each professional has the ability, availability, and working style to succeed in the assignment.
Factors we consider:
Skills and experience:
Has the person worked with the required tools, systems, or processes?
Relevant past results:
What did the person accomplish in similar roles or projects, and how closely does that work match your need?
Availability and commitment:
Can the person start when needed and support the expected schedule and length of the assignment?
Communication:
Can the person explain ideas clearly, share updates, ask useful questions, and work with different team members?
Working style:
Can the person manage the pace, level of direction, and amount of independence the assignment requires?
Team and environment fit:
Will the person work well with your managers, processes, expectations, and business environment?
04.
Start and Support
the Assignment
Trova presents a focused group of qualified professionals
instead of sending a large stack of résumés.
You interview and select the professional who best fits the need. Trova then coordinates onboarding, payroll, the start date, and other agreed assignment details.
We also streamline the administrative side of the engagement, including timesheets, approvals, and billing, so your team can manage the assignment without unnecessary administrative work.
After the work begins, Trova stays in contact with both sides. We gather feedback, help address concerns, and adjust as the project, timeline, or staffing need changes.
Staff Augmentation vs.
Direct Hire and Professional Services
Trova offers different hiring and talent solutions based on who will manage the work, how long the need may last, and what the company needs to accomplish.
| Staff Augmentation | Direct Hire | Professional Services | |
| Best for | Skill gaps, temporary coverage, changing workloads, and project support | Permanent roles tied to an ongoing business need | Defined projects or work that requires outside expertise |
| Who directs the work? | Your company directs the professional’s daily work | Your company manages the employee | Trova manages delivery under the agreed scope |
| Type of commitment | Flexible and based on the assignment | Permanent employment | Based on the project or statement of work |
| Main goal | Add talent to your existing team | Hire a permanent employee | Complete defined work or deliver agreed results |
| Employment arrangement | Trova employs the contract professional during the assignment | Your company employs the person | Based on the Professional Services agreement |
Use Staff Augmentation when you need contract professionals to join your team and work under your direction.
- Explore Direct Hire Recruiting Services when you are ready to add a permanent employee.
- Explore Professional Services when you want Trova to manage an agreed scope of work or project result.
Not sure which model fits your needs?
Trova can help you compare the options before beginning the search.
Contract Talent Across
Key Business Functions
Trova supports staff augmentation across
several recruiting specialties.
Human Resources
Add support for recruiting, employee relations, benefits, HR operations, and HR systems.
Technology
Support systems, infrastructure, cloud, data, software, implementations, project management, and technical operations.
Operations
Find project managers, program managers, process specialists, and business operations professionals.
Cybersecurity and GRC
Strengthen cybersecurity, governance, risk, compliance, audit, and remediation work.
Sales and Marketing
Support marketing, sales operations, business development, campaigns, and growth efforts.
Accounting and Finance
Manage reporting deadlines, financial analysis, audits, department transitions, and workload increases.
Why Companies
Choose Trova
As a staff augmentation and recruiting company, Trova focuses on finding the right professionals for the work your team needs to complete.
A Search Built Around the Work
Trova starts by defining the business need, the work involved, and the results you expect.
This focus helps us narrow the search, present stronger candidates, and reduce mismatched placements.
A Network Built Over Decades
Trova’s recruiters use long-standing relationships across the country to reach experienced professionals, including people who may not respond to a standard job posting.
Because we often know more than what appears on a résumé, we can better assess each person’s strengths, experience, and working style.
A Partner Focused on Results
Trova measures success by what the placement helps your company achieve.
That may include meeting a deadline, closing a skill gap, improving efficiency, or supporting a major business change. As needs shift, Trova stays engaged and helps adjust the staffing plan.
Case Study
Supporting
a Global Technology Transformation
The Challenge
A multibillion-dollar services company needed to bring greater structure and consistency to its global technology operations.
With more than 200 locations and several divisions operating on different systems and processes, the organization was facing growing complexity across its technology environment.
At the same time, major technology projects were running over budget, creating additional pressure on leadership to improve planning, coordination, and execution.
The company needed experienced technology leaders and project professionals who could bring teams together, strengthen communication across divisions, improve oversight, and help technology initiatives move forward with greater discipline and accountability.
Trova’s Approach
Trova placed two technology leaders under the company’s chief information officer. One focused on building a global project management office. The other led global infrastructure.
Trova also added senior professionals with experience in project management, program delivery, release management, business analysis, and technology operations.
Together, these professionals gave the client additional leadership and expertise across several critical areas of its technology organization.
The Result
The new leaders and project professionals gave the client a central structure for managing global technology work, infrastructure, releases, and project delivery.
The expanded team helped the company strengthen its technology operations and move key initiatives forward.
Frequently Asked Questions
for Staff Augmentation
Look for a staff augmentation company that takes time to understand the work, the skills required, and how the professional will fit with your team.
The right partner should provide access to qualified talent, evaluate candidates carefully, communicate clearly throughout the assignment, and offer the flexibility to adjust as your needs change.
The length depends on your business need.
An assignment may last a few weeks, several months, or longer for a major project, temporary vacancy, or ongoing staffing gap.
Trova can also help extend the assignment when the work continues beyond the original timeline.
Yes, when the agreement includes a contract-to-hire option.
This arrangement gives your company and the professional time to assess the role, working relationship, and long-term fit through real work.
Trova will explain the conversion terms before the assignment begins.
Yes, depending on the role and your company’s needs.
Trova can search for onsite, hybrid, or remote professionals when the work can support those options.
The available talent pool may also vary based on the required location and schedule.
Timing depends on the required skills, location, work arrangement, pay range, and current market conditions.
Trova first defines the role and assignment so the search stays focused.
After that, the team begins targeted outreach and presents qualified professionals as they are identified.
Cost depends on the role, experience level, assignment length, location, and other assignment details.
The rate may also vary based on how specialized the skills are and how quickly the person must start.
Trova can provide clear pricing after reviewing your needs.
Staff augmentation gives your company room to adjust as the work changes.
Based on the agreement, Trova can help extend an assignment, add professionals, reduce the team, or explore another staffing option.
This may include moving from contract staffing to Direct Hire when the need becomes permanent.
Ready to Add
Contract Talent
and Keep Work Moving?
Tell Trova where your team needs more skills, capacity, or support.
We will help define the role, choose the right staffing approach, and begin a focused search for qualified contract professionals.