Sometimes it can be commercially viable to hire in a freelance professional rather than take on a new permanent
member of staff. It can be cost effective, particularly if you need to get started quickly on a project or need someone
for a couple of months to put together a tender or close a final account.
Mind you, that only works if the freelancer you bring in is good enough to represent your company.
In our opinion, there should be no difference between a permanent member of staff and a freelance professional in
terms of attitude and performance. It’s likely that the candidate will have direct contact with YOUR client from day one.
At Number 8, we continue to build an excellent database of quality construction candidates as per below.
Foremen/Finishing Foremen (m/f)
Site Managers
Project/Contracts Managers
Quantity Surveyors
Estimators
Planners
Site Engineers
We take our time to match the exact requirements with our database. Quite often we prefer to meet
the client and go through the spec in some detail prior to sending over candidate details.
Our database of candidates has developed over the last few years with quite a few coming from
networking and recommendation. We vet every candidate very carefully to understand strengths,
skill-sets etc.
So when you next need to bring someone in, whether it be for a week’s holiday cover or 6 months on
a particular scheme, it may be worth a no obligation conversation with us.