Podcasts for Freelancers

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

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Freelance Advisor Podcast

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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User Comments
Darren Fell
Apr 8, 2009
at 11:49 am

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.

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