🎯 How Freelancers Help Businesses Scale Faster | The Independent Workforce | Kate Steiner-Dicks

“The ability to bring in specialized talent quickly is what allows startups and innovative companies to scale faster than their competitors.”

In this episode, we discussed how companies can scale faster and smarter by working with freelancers, and what both sides must do to make those partnerships successful, in particular:

👉 What is pushing more professionals into independent work.

👉 The biggest fears companies have when hiring independent experts.

👉 What the ideal system for hiring freelancers should look like.

Join Yurii Lazaruk, an Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships at freelancermap, and Katherine Steiner-Dicks, the founder of BuzzVestor Media, business journalist, freelancer advocate, and editorial consultant for The Freelance Informer, who's been covering private equity and venture capital for over 20 years while building her own freelance career in parallel and helping businesses hire right independent talent.

Together, we explore the now and the future of work through the lens of temporary employment, and how companies can get the most out of such collaboration!

Connect with Kate and Yurii on Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-s-1988017/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yurii-lazaruk-community-consultant/

Whether you’re looking to hire top freelance talent fast or are a freelancer ready to find your next big project, freelancermap connects the right people with the right work 💪

Visit https://www.freelancermap.com/ and start building your next success story today!🚀

Timestamps:

(00:00) Meet Kate Steiner-Dicks

(03:59) AI and Rising Expectations

(07:31) Company Concerns Hiring Freelancers

(10:21) From Vendor to Partner

(12:08) Expectation Gaps and Communication

(14:32) Data Security and NDAs

(17:39) Internal vs External Talent

(22:27) Why Flexible Talent Scales

(25:29) Hiring Fast and Letting Go

(26:40) Freelancers Want Projects

(28:02) Recruiter Trust Issues

(32:27) Relationship First Recruiting

(38:48) Pay Terms And Respect

(40:32) Fixing IR35 Barriers

(44:51) Advice For Companies And Newbies

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