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Contacted a few brokers and had a 6 month assignment within a week. They took 10% of all my invoicing

• satvikpendem 2y ago
  Where and how did you find these brokers?
  • jalapenos 2y ago
    In other countries they'd just be called recruiting agencies (they can do either permanent or contract jobs). He's referring to contracting, where you work for one client at a time, almost identical to like an employee would but for the duration limit (and likely a company in between you and them to solidly the facade). In contrast to what most people would call freelance, where you work for multiple clients at the same time, i.e. a dev agency of one.
    • brtkdotse 2y ago
      Yeah, sorry. I got contractor and freelancer mixed up. It doesn't help that in Sweden freelancer/contractor/consultant are used interchangably for someone who invoices for their time instead of getting a salary. The contracting agencies don't do any permanent position, they only do medium-to-long term contracts (3-24 months). The biggest is Northern Europe is probably https://www.verama.com/ https://www.verama.com/ (ex E-Work)
      • jalapenos 2y ago
        Goes other way too, contractor is a super vague term. Even gets used for fixed term employees.
      • zerr 2y ago
        But you can make friends with the client and later work directly for them.
• b20000 2y ago
  never heard of such a small markup computer futures in europe years ago wanted to double my rate
  • vertis 2y ago
    I did that a number of years ago ~2009 in Australia. If I recall the markup was ~8-10%. It was pretty much a big recruitment company (Hays) that also helped clients find short term contracts. Worked until I found something better.