Ask HN: How do you find contracting/freelance roles without recruiters nowadays?
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What's the point of going through the recruiter markup?
Liability. A company would rather sign a contract with a known company that they already have a business relationship with.
There is also the issue of “Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors Under the Fair Labor Standards Act”
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa/misclassification
Under this arrangement, the company is protected.
There is also the issue of “Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors Under the Fair Labor Standards Act”
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa/misclassification
Under this arrangement, the company is protected.
your network
through me
One of those times was my former CTO who had moved on to another company and his company didn’t want to pay me directly. But they had no problem hiring me through a recruiting company I knew who I reached out to and they signed a contract with them with the markup.
While I have worked in consulting for six years, I refuse to do staff aug. It’s the fifth level of hell.