Calling business owners and managers...
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... id like to pick your brains for my business class research assignment. Id like to include real world opinions on the subject as opposed to just what i can find on the net.
Firstly please specify what your position in your company is and in what industry you work in.
When will you employ someone as a permanent member of staff?
When will you employ someone under a contract for a period of months?
When will you employ someone on a daily or weekly basis?What qualities would you look for in the people who applied, and what would you expect to pay for their services?
Please bare in mind that i might quote what you have to say so if you reply ill assume you have no problem with that. Thanx
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
you.suck = (you.passion != Programming)I can not answer your question personally. But these guys are always in the business news. Their forte is recruiting and finding jobs for CEO's. You might contact them for more info, and talk to one of their recruiters. Challenger Gray and Christmas[^]
MrPlankton
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I can not answer your question personally. But these guys are always in the business news. Their forte is recruiting and finding jobs for CEO's. You might contact them for more info, and talk to one of their recruiters. Challenger Gray and Christmas[^]
MrPlankton
Thanks for the suggestion MrPlankton :) [sing] F is for fire that burns down the whole town U is for Uranium.... BOMB! N is for no survivors :rolleyes: [/sing]
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
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... id like to pick your brains for my business class research assignment. Id like to include real world opinions on the subject as opposed to just what i can find on the net.
Firstly please specify what your position in your company is and in what industry you work in.
When will you employ someone as a permanent member of staff?
When will you employ someone under a contract for a period of months?
When will you employ someone on a daily or weekly basis?What qualities would you look for in the people who applied, and what would you expect to pay for their services?
Please bare in mind that i might quote what you have to say so if you reply ill assume you have no problem with that. Thanx
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
you.suck = (you.passion != Programming)> Firstly please specify what your position in your company is and in what industry you work in. I'm the operations manager for a small software company that develops code analysis tools. Right now we mainly service the aerospace and automotive industries, and we've done some work for financial/insurance companies in the past. Currently we have one commercial, shrink-wrapped product which is selling worldwide, but the majority of our work still comes from contracts. > When will you employ someone as a permanent member of staff? Yes, we currently have several full-time staff, as well as some of long-term contract workers for software engineering and translation services. > When will you employ someone under a contract for a period of months? We often employ 1 or 2 interns during the fall and spring semesters, as well as during the summer break. We also have one person who we originally hired under contract for a period of a few months, and we've made his contract more or less permanent since he has continued to be extremely reliable now for several years. > When will you employ someone on a daily or weekly basis? Occasionally if we need someone to do some technical writing and all of our developers are busy on contract work, we'll farm out some of the writing for someone else to do a first draft, then we proof it to make sure the writer had a grasp of the technical terms and concepts. We contract out translation work (usually on a per-word basis) when we need error messages, GUI elements, documentation, or tech support requests translated to/from Japanese or another language. We also have hired interpreters to sit in at meetings when customers visit us, or to accompany one of us when visiting customers in Japan. Sometimes we happen to know an expert in the field of a particular contract that we've taken on. In those cases, we usually subcontract the person at either their normal rate or our normal engineering rate. > What qualities would you look for in the people who applied, and what would you expect to pay for their services? We look for bright, self-motivated graduate or undergrad students from the local university. Everyone who has been hired full-time at the company has been an intern at some point, and we are always looking for interns who we could consider hiring full-time when the opportunity arises. Ever since we gave a simple project to an intern who completely failed to produce anything even remotely like the spec we provided him, we've used that
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... id like to pick your brains for my business class research assignment. Id like to include real world opinions on the subject as opposed to just what i can find on the net.
Firstly please specify what your position in your company is and in what industry you work in.
When will you employ someone as a permanent member of staff?
When will you employ someone under a contract for a period of months?
When will you employ someone on a daily or weekly basis?What qualities would you look for in the people who applied, and what would you expect to pay for their services?
Please bare in mind that i might quote what you have to say so if you reply ill assume you have no problem with that. Thanx
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
you.suck = (you.passion != Programming)If you are still collecting these, here's mine...
Harvey Saayman wrote:
Firstly please specify what your position in your company is and in what industry you work in.
I am the owner (and Technical Director) of a small software development company. Our clients are approximately 80% government, 19% small/medium business, 1% individuals.
Harvey Saayman wrote:
When will you employ someone as a permanent member of staff?
Probably never. I prefer to contract workers as needed.
Harvey Saayman wrote:
When will you employ someone under a contract for a period of months?
When I have a project that requires a resource for that period of time.
Harvey Saayman wrote:
When will you employ someone on a daily or weekly basis?
When I have a small project that requires a resource for a shorter period of time, or if I am giving a trial run to a potential candidate for a longer project.
Harvey Saayman wrote:
What qualities would you look for in the people who applied, and what would you expect to pay for their services?
Communication skills are top of the list, followed by technical skills. Workers need to be keen and motivated, with the ability to think for themselves, but know when to seek clarification. We tend to pay commensurate with the contractor's experience, however usually pay slightly higher than the contractor would receive going through a larger "body shop". Hope this helps!! Please let me know how your assignment turns out.
-------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!!
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If you are still collecting these, here's mine...
Harvey Saayman wrote:
Firstly please specify what your position in your company is and in what industry you work in.
I am the owner (and Technical Director) of a small software development company. Our clients are approximately 80% government, 19% small/medium business, 1% individuals.
Harvey Saayman wrote:
When will you employ someone as a permanent member of staff?
Probably never. I prefer to contract workers as needed.
Harvey Saayman wrote:
When will you employ someone under a contract for a period of months?
When I have a project that requires a resource for that period of time.
Harvey Saayman wrote:
When will you employ someone on a daily or weekly basis?
When I have a small project that requires a resource for a shorter period of time, or if I am giving a trial run to a potential candidate for a longer project.
Harvey Saayman wrote:
What qualities would you look for in the people who applied, and what would you expect to pay for their services?
Communication skills are top of the list, followed by technical skills. Workers need to be keen and motivated, with the ability to think for themselves, but know when to seek clarification. We tend to pay commensurate with the contractor's experience, however usually pay slightly higher than the contractor would receive going through a larger "body shop". Hope this helps!! Please let me know how your assignment turns out.
-------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!!
Thank you Damian Ill let you know how it goes
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
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> Firstly please specify what your position in your company is and in what industry you work in. I'm the operations manager for a small software company that develops code analysis tools. Right now we mainly service the aerospace and automotive industries, and we've done some work for financial/insurance companies in the past. Currently we have one commercial, shrink-wrapped product which is selling worldwide, but the majority of our work still comes from contracts. > When will you employ someone as a permanent member of staff? Yes, we currently have several full-time staff, as well as some of long-term contract workers for software engineering and translation services. > When will you employ someone under a contract for a period of months? We often employ 1 or 2 interns during the fall and spring semesters, as well as during the summer break. We also have one person who we originally hired under contract for a period of a few months, and we've made his contract more or less permanent since he has continued to be extremely reliable now for several years. > When will you employ someone on a daily or weekly basis? Occasionally if we need someone to do some technical writing and all of our developers are busy on contract work, we'll farm out some of the writing for someone else to do a first draft, then we proof it to make sure the writer had a grasp of the technical terms and concepts. We contract out translation work (usually on a per-word basis) when we need error messages, GUI elements, documentation, or tech support requests translated to/from Japanese or another language. We also have hired interpreters to sit in at meetings when customers visit us, or to accompany one of us when visiting customers in Japan. Sometimes we happen to know an expert in the field of a particular contract that we've taken on. In those cases, we usually subcontract the person at either their normal rate or our normal engineering rate. > What qualities would you look for in the people who applied, and what would you expect to pay for their services? We look for bright, self-motivated graduate or undergrad students from the local university. Everyone who has been hired full-time at the company has been an intern at some point, and we are always looking for interns who we could consider hiring full-time when the opportunity arises. Ever since we gave a simple project to an intern who completely failed to produce anything even remotely like the spec we provided him, we've used that
Thank you for replying i appreciate it
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
you.suck = (you.passion != Programming)