Add a second income stream - Interviewing Employees

[oaksoft]

Following recent trials, OakSoft Consultancy is delighted to launch its Employment Solutions Provision service.
Details of this service are described at our new website www.oaksoft-consultancy.com

To help with this service we are looking to build on our small, flexible pool of Freelance staff to enable us to interview suitable employment candidates for our clients across the country and in almost every discipline imaginable.
This is a unique opportunity for Freelancers to register their interest in adding their particular skills to our pool.

Interested Freelancers should visit our website at www.oaksoft-consultancy.com for further details and registration.

A specific need has arisen this afternoon for a Freelancer to help interview an employee with the following skillset:-

Programming Platforms
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Microsoft VS.NET (C# or VB.NET)
Microsoft Access (2000 and above) – Visual Basic/VBA
Perl (within an Apache environment on both Linux & Windows)
XML

Database Platforms
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Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL Server (Running on Linux)

Web development:

· Perl with MySQL on a Linux platform (Redhat/Apache)

· Perl with SQL Server on a Windows platform (Apache)

· .NET with SQL Server & XML



Application development using:

· .NET with SQL Server & XML

· Access 2000 (Visual Basic) with SQL Server

[Mark Snowdon]

Nice one !

How are you getting the business ? Have you done a deal with Satan ? (an agent)

I suppose you dont want someone to ask lots of Oracle questions and castigate their failure to implement 'real' systems ?

[McBainCo]

Nice business idea.

Good luck with its marketing!

[oaksoft]

Re: Nice one !

How are you getting the business ? Have you done a deal with Satan ? (an agent)
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I managed to interest a large agency with this idea and our negotiations reached an advanced stage but I simply decided that I didn't need them as I worked out a really simple, very cheap and extremely effective way of finding clients and candidates.



I suppose you dont want someone to ask lots of Oracle questions and castigate their failure to implement 'real' systems ?
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Not sure what you mean by this. The interviewing is done in several stages. We want to know that they understand the theory and then we need evidence that they can apply that theory. I can't do it all myself and thought I'd use Freelance staff on an ad-hoc hourly basis. The Freelance "pool" will be very small and paid pretty much whatever rate they want - providing they are not grossly out-bidded. Bear in mind that cost is not the issue. I am as likely to take someone on charging £90 ph as someone charging £20 ph for the same skills. There's enough money in this to pay decent rates for this type of thing so I'm not going to be screwing anyone. I would talk to all Freelancers who were asking for reasonable amounts and then make a judgement purely based on who I thought could do the best job for my company. It's not worth my while doing it any other way because a crap candidate getting to the client is going to kill my business.