Advantages: working with foreign freelancers
December 19, 2022
Generality
Companies often need experts in specific areas, to do this, they entrust their tasks to providers who are able to intervene on their problems by proposing appropriate solutions. These providers can be either a single person or a group of people who form a service company.
Generally speaking, freelancers work alone and offer their key skills to employers. However, a freelancer can work in a team with others to advance a project.
Recruiting
Hiring a freelancer is a fairly flexible process. It does not require going through the classic steps that we find in the incorporation of an employee. A freelancer really has this freedom to work at home, or in a coworking space or at the client’s place. Depending on the conditions of his engagement, the freelancer may be hired to work on the employer’s premises, the term sourcing is more generally used here. Freelancing platforms like iworks.sn are well representative of this opportunity offered to the freelancer. More generally, freelancing platforms mediate between project owners and freelancers.
Time saving
The freelancer is autonomous, he chooses the projects he is able to work on. In terms of deadlines, a company finds its account to work with a freelance because contrary to the employee who can potentially receive several tasks and find himself in the incapacity to finish in time, the freelance chooses his own or limits himself to a scope of project well defined by the project owner.
Finance
More and more companies are now turning to the freelancing business model because it represents a real cost savings. Indeed, when a company hires a self-employed worker, it does not have to pay the traditional compensations of the employee, in particular the social charges. Freelancers are in perpetual competition with each other, which allows companies to recruit a freelancer by playing the parameters of cost and quality.
Flexibility
One of the strong points of the freelancer is his flexibility because he chose to be a freelancer who adapts to the customer context. The projects defined by the companies are critical for them insofar as they do not envisage failure even if the zero risk does not exist. Thus the freelancer must make himself available to the maximum, concentrate on the success of the client’s project. Its recruitment compared to another freelancer is mostly based on details like:
- Being on time
- Being passionate
- Have a good work ethic
- Make an effort
- Being energetic
- Being passionate
- Having a positive attitude
- Communicate positively
- Want to learn
- Doing more than requested
Conclusion
The use of providers is as old as time. However, COVID 19 has helped skeptics understand the importance of telecommuting. Companies today are increasingly trusting their employees to use this mode of operation, whether they are employees, external service providers or freelancers. Flexibility and autonomy are two philosophies in which the freelancer and the employer find themselves, creating in time a win-win situation in a flourishing market.
