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| Re: Self Employed Consultants |
| Author: | Flash |
| Date: | Tuesday, 10th Jul 2007 11:32 |
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You would need to give them something rather large to entice them to be self employed under your banner / branding. Otherwise, a good consultant would just prefer to start their own business. No? |
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| Re: Self Employed Consultants |
| Author: | Been There.. |
| Date: | Tuesday, 10th Jul 2007 11:49 |
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Don't go there mate - chances are they are the dregs of the earth who can't get a job in an employed role through references, bad practice and are greedy little ******** wanting a bigger cut of the pie.....they'll then stab you in the back, disappear of the face of the earth, taking your business and clients.
Trust me.............you're a MUG if you think this is worth looking at.
Question - why can't you employ then PAYE? No money?
Oh and worst still.....don't let then WORK FROM HOME - that's just business suicide!!!!!!!! |
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| Re: Self Employed Consultants |
| Author: | Dom |
| Date: | Tuesday, 10th Jul 2007 12:27 |
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Gotta agree with Been There DO NOT let them work from home.
Example # 1 Set up an NYC office, the consultant wanted to work from home. We let them. 3 months - no money billed. Did an audit on clients and found $60k has been billed by them under their own name.
Example # 2 Eight consultants working remotely round the country, ended up sacking them all as they spent 90% of their day attending their kids plays and shopping and coffee etc!
If you can afford to bring someone onto a contract, DO IT as harsh as it sounds, you own their time that you pay them for and have tighter control, after all its your house/income/life on the line if it goes wrong. |
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| Re: Self Employed Consultants |
| Author: | tomte |
| Date: | Wednesday, 11th Jul 2007 11:37 |
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I really have to disagree to the previous postings here, as I'm one of those who work remotely from home office (abroad) to a UK recruitment agency and have never (yet) met my employer!!! I'm doing a very specialist market, brought mostly my own clients on board, and have very different focus than anyone else in the company. Everything's gone great the last 8 months I've worked for this employer, and have absolutely no complaints, and believe the employer has no complaints on my work either, as I've brought in a good amount of business from the very first month. I used to sit in London and work for a prestigious player, but had to move for family reasons. Now I live in another country, and I was hired after a series of phone conversations to work for a smaller company. Of course good references from past employers and people that were well known to my employer helped, but I had a choice of employers offering me similar opportunities. So do not be afraid, there is a chance you'll find a loser, but then again it could turn the other way around as well. I for one, have no interest in going solo, as there's so much hassle with legal, payrolls, etc. that I really don't want to deal with. Getting a nice piece of commission sure helps... |
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| Re: Self Employed Consultants |
| Author: | Ando |
| Date: | Wednesday, 11th Jul 2007 11:45 |
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We're a small business and considered a number of options before pursuing part time PAYE over self employed.
We took someone on relatively local with recruitment experience who was prepared to take a reasoanble hourly rate and a good commission to balance their work / life
It keeps our overheads low but avoids the pitfalls mentioned above of self employed sharks.
not saying all self employed recruiters don't have anything to offer, but lets be honest recruitment is a business built on knowledge, contacts and relationships and going down the Self employed route you are open to abuse.
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| Re: Self Employed Consultants |
| Author: | Terry |
| Date: | Wednesday, 11th Jul 2007 16:26 |
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Thank you all for your contributions. It has given me food for thought.
TOMTE, would love to find a "you" but as others have said, I think finding someone with experience, honesty, reliability and able to work from relatively unsupervised is almost unheard of.
Out of interest where did you hear about your current job role - where was it advertised. Can I ask if they pay you a retainer or just purely commission based.
Thanks
Terry |
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