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Podcast #13: Why we get Employed – the Recruitment Consultancy Perspective

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Andy White talks to Emma Brierley, Director of Xchange Team, about her book, Talent on Tap: Getting the best from Freelancers, Interims and Consultants, and gain some interesting insights into why freelancers get employed from the agency perspective.

Topics covered:

  • What the book Talent on Tap is about
  • Helping companies understand how to hire freelancers, interims and consultants
  • Main business drivers for companies hiring consultants
  • Subtle reasons why companies hire consultants
  • Hiring consultants as a means of lowering risk
  • The role of agencies
  • The relationship between hiring companies and agencies
  • The relationship between agencies and freelancers
  • Freelancer personality types
  • What makes a good Freelancer?
  • Where we see the freelance/contractor market going in the next 3 years
  • Advice to people considering contacting an agency to become a freelancer
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  • Darren Fell

    Many thanks to Emma Brierly for such an informative interview just days before Emma was to give birth! Hope this proves useful to all of the freelancers out there.

  • Darren Fell

    Many thanks to Emma Brierly for such an informative interview just days before Emma was to give birth! Hope this proves useful to all of the freelancers out there.