On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 11:23 +0100, david blanchard wrote: > I guess what we could do until this part improves is look at > subcontracting companies rather than individuals (with the constraint > of having no more than one person of each company who would work with > us). Until now, I've only asked my contacts in India to look for > individuals, so what I could try now is ask them to advice me with > subcontracting companies that they trust, and see how it goes. > What do you think ? Any other idea ? Any subcontracting company you > know of that is worth contacting ?
A few ideas, in no particular order: - Make the job offer look more like a "traditional" recruitment, for a full time job. The contract would still be a freelancer one, but it can still be modeled to give guarantees such as notice delay or guaranteed work (as long as the iterations are performed on a timely manner). It could state something like "Employment type: Full time contract (with clauses specific to telecommuting)" and then explain it to the applicants once they have started discussing with us. - Be more proactive - go meet people in the countries where we place ads (recruitment conventions, hacker gatherings, asking for referals and meet people face to face to improve our network, etc.) - Extending our candidate search to countries with a higher cost of living - we are not rich, but it could still be worth a try. Xavier. _______________________________________________ Farsides mailing list - [email protected] Wiki: http://farsides.com/ List: http://farsides.com/ml/ Forum: http://farsides.com/forum/ Ideas: http://farsides.com/ideas/ Chat: http://farsides.com/chat/
