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Where and how did you find these brokers?

• jalapenos 3y 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 3y 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 3y ago
      Goes other way too, contractor is a super vague term. Even gets used for fixed term employees.
    • zerr 3y ago
      But you can make friends with the client and later work directly for them.