You’ve seen those top 10, top 20, top 100 lists, and we all know the numbers are arbitrary. So in this case, we’ll just jot down some key benefits, and let you add more in the forums. For Companies Looking to Hire Hire contractors directly, but with corp to corp contracts. We handle admin, they …
Someone asked in a recent [webinar] how one can promote one’s talents and availability as a free agent. First, of course, there’s no substitute at all for the direct route: you’re hitting the virtual pavement to schedule interviews just like ordinary employment seekers. Use indeed.com to aggregate a single search point for monster, careerbuilder, and …
So let’s say I’m a current or former employee (or perhaps current or former contractor) about ready to pull the trigger on becoming a Free Agent… I’m not worried about health insurance or 401K, because I get that with FAS, since all Free Agents get FAS employee status. I’m not worried about switching benefits all …
If we were a staffing agency, we’d probably do the usual things: hide what we’re billing the client, pay you a fraction of that, deprive you of benefits, and treat you as an interchangeable commodity. Very few people dream of spending the rest of their lives working in that kind of environment. But the culture …
One of the toughest things about being a contractor, as usually envisioned, is that you get all the headaches of running your own business and none of the benefits of employment. If you’re a contractor now, or have been one, you know the litany well (paperwork, bookkeeping, no health coverage…), so there’s no need to …
