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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up So exactly how do freelance hairdressers operate? Question: What do Britain's hairdressers and IT technicians have in common? Answer: A shared love of getting a bit on the side. No, not that kind of 'bit on the side'. [06 Nov 2009]
Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment They are more plentiful among self-employed professionals, portfolio workers, freelance entrepreneurs, forward-thinking start-ups, self-organising online communities and skilled people overseas with valuable new... [13 Oct 2009]
Hiring the Best Web Design & Website Development Company: 20 Interview Questions You Must Ask
White Paper The world of web design includes a whole spectrum of freelance web designers, freelance web developers, student-run web companies, mid-level niche digital agencies or the high-end web design studios. The... [04 Jul 2009]
Freelance Brand Consultant Helps Businesses Make It Big With SmartDraw Graphics
White Paper Adrian is a freelance brand consultant specializing in internal change and business strategy. Adrian works with a variety of clients to help them see the opportunity that change represents. Adrian was looking for a quick... [15 Apr 2009]
From IT sales to stand-up comedy
Comment Comedy's paypacket is no laughing matter either - and Montgomerie-Anderson takes on typing, market research and data entry work via freelance website PeoplePerHour to square the pay circle. Or the one about the techie... [14 Apr 2009]
Inbox: Worried about pink slips? Here's some advice
Comment Go freelance. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. Worried about job cuts? An article on silicon.com this week highlighted some... [03 Nov 2008]
Expand Optimizes MPLS Network and Provides Foundation for Server Based Computing Project at Hill McGlynn
White Paper Hill McGlynn is one of the UK's leading construction recruitment specialists supply permanent and freelance construction personnel throughout the UK and overseas. Operating in an MPLS environment for WAN connectivity... [04 Aug 2008]
Credit crunch turns techies to second jobs
News Freelance services website PeoplePerHour.com says it currently has 3,500 people offering work in at least one IT-related category, with more than a third (35 per cent) also in full time employment - with this figure... [22 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty
Comment Employees have assumed the mentality of the freelance workforce. There's been a shift in attitudes among IT workers, argues the Naked CIO. Gone are the days when loyalty to your employer counted for something. [31 Mar 2008]
Contractors choose lifestyle over money
News Lifestyle and flexible working benefits are the most important factors influencing IT staff to go freelance as contractors. More than a third (37 per cent) of 2,000 IT contractors quizzed by accounting services provider... [20 Nov 2007]
Web 2.0 techies sacrifice pay for shares
News This goes against the trend in other parts of the IT industry where an increasing proportion of people are now looking to go freelance. The majority of people looking to work for web 2.0 start-up companies are prepared... [13 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... petty cash, Vista sales, swelling SMEs...
Comment Not true of freelance businesses: Some freelance businesses may want to grow but most want to remain as agile one or two person businesses. Most of these freelance businesses simply want... [01 Nov 2007]
Skills Survey 2007: CIOs getting less cash?
News Thirteen per cent of those in the £110k+ club are IT consultants and a further 13 per cent are IT contractors, so going freelance can clearly be lucrative too. IT chiefs are rolling in slightly less filthy lucre than... [14 Aug 2007]
Alex Robinson
CIO Profile A short and ultimately unsuccessful spell as a freelance writer led Robinson to try out a computer programming training scheme, which he says was the turning point in his career. What they say about him: "Demonstrates... [06 Jun 2007]
Pay bonanza for freelance tech execs
News Nearly half of interim managers expect to earn more than £100,000 this year, as pay rates for these freelance senior execs rise again. Pay rates for interim managers hit an average of £685 per day last year, according to... [28 Mar 2007]
