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The preferred vendor platform for companies to engage independent professionals.
The flexibility you want. The liability protection you need.
- THE CHALLENGE:
Eliminate Recruiter Control Over Your Arrangements with Contract Professionals
HOW TO un-bundle contracting from recruitment:
- Staffing agencies are primarily recruiting firms that attach restrictive contract stipulations & fees.
- That divides you from contractors and prevents optimal relationships with contract talent.
- But that's how the agency ensures an ongoing relationship with your company: control not flexibility.
- That control isn't necessary, and you shouldn't be trapped in their bundling of recruiter fees with contractor payments & terms.
- Increasing the risk and inefficiency by becoming the employer for an entire staff isn't worth it, either.
- Until now, those were your practical choices.
- Separating recruiting from contracting eliminates recruiter control over your relationships with (and options for) professional talent.
- Make FAS a preferred vendor for contracting with professionals.
- Leverage internal or independent recruiters (now abundantly available in the Cloud) - hire anyone from any source.
- FAS becomes the employer, so you get more flexibility without affecting liability, which puts you back in the driver's seat of your project and your business.
- THE SECRET:
Separate Recruiter Fees from Contractor Payments
Why You Should
- You can't see what is spent for recruiting on your projects.
- Recruiting keeps driving up the costs over time.
- A gatekeeper is controlling your relationship to the contractor.
- You can't hire-in the contractors without paying out extra fees.
- You're saddled with too many staffing agencies as suppliers.
- You miss out on independent talent w. access to a limited market.
Getting It Done
- Make FAS a preferred vendor to your company
- Hire Anyone from Any Source: internal recruiters, independent recruiters, referrals, job postings, or our recruitment network.
- You and the Professional manage the relationship
- We handle Business Formalities and Back End Costs
- A Simple Flat Markup is added to Regular Pay.
Wipe Out Headaches
- No Employer Burden / Costs
- No Managing Independent Contracts
- Full Benefit Options for All Professionals
No Catch, No Gotcha
- No Agency Fees or Crazy Markups
- No Minimum Term Commitments
- Temp to Hire Welcome
What to Do Next
- Large Corporations
Engage talent. Limit risk.
- Problem: Company needs to hire but risk, commitment, & expense is high.
- Benefit: FAS lets companies be agile & lean by offloading the employer role onto us.
- Solution: Company & professional still control the relationship. We take on the costs & risks for a flat markup.
- Point: When you become/remain the permanent employer of more than half your workforce, you raise the risk & commitment level & reduce your agility for only a modest, temporary savings.
- Small Business
Hire Anyone. Employ No One.
- Problem: Company needs to hire but risk, commitment, & expense is high.
- Benefit: FAS lets companies be agile & lean by offloading the employer role onto us.
- Solution: Company & professional still control the relationship. We take on the costs & risks for a flat markup.
- Point: When you become/remain the permanent employer of more than half your workforce, you raise the risk & commitment level & reduce your agility for only a modest, temporary savings.
- Startups
Hire the Team. Skip the Admin.
- Startups have the advantage: of either or both of the services available to solos & companies.
- Like self-employed entrepreneurs: startups can outsource the entity itself & hire themselves.
- Like established companies: startups can subcontract the employer role & bring on talent.
- Point: Every non-innovative activity a startup stops to build takes away from the momentum, increases the risk, & decreases flexibility.
- Q & A
SMALL BUSINESS: By what percentage can I increase compensation so free agents can cover any costs with FAS?
STARTUPS: Is this really less expensive than being the employer?
RECRUITERS: Can independent recruiters partner with FAS?
HR DEPTS: How can corporate HR departments use the FAS platform?
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TODAY'S ANSWER: Why flat rate is better.
A flat percentage of billable keeps all relationships transparent and predictable, with no gotcha fees for hiring contractors as employees at the end of the project (or any time during). It's also cheaper than being the employer or using a staffing agency.
