Thinking about a part time and / or short term contract employee
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Our company is currently at a point that we are severely short handed for the next few months. Beyond that we have no current guarantee of workload. Obviously we hope it grows or maintains at the worst, but nothing is stable enough that we would commit to a new permanent employee.
Our most dire need is basically for someone to handle all of my grunt work. I need someone to be helpdesk / advanced helpdesk / basic (very) system admin.
We are open to a brining on a person with say a six month contract, but I am still unsure if I can fill a full 40 hours every week or not.
We likely can easily bring on a someone for 20+ hours a week for the next six months.
How would some of you handle this situation?
Currently I am handling it by working a lot and having things fall behind. This is not a desired course of action. -
See if any MSP's or consulting firms will cut you a good rate for a part time employee on a contract. It should be significantly less than their standard hourly rate because you are guaranteeing a minimum weekly amount with the prospect of spike as needed during the contract.
Sure it will be more than if you hire directly (most likely) but it has a ton of flexibility because the person doesn't work for you, they work for the other firm and are contracted to you long term.
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@Dashrender said:
See if any MSP's or consulting firms will cut you a good rate for a part time employee on a contract. It should be significantly less than their standard hourly rate because you are guaranteeing a minimum weekly amount with the prospect of spike as needed during the contract.
Sure it will be more than if you hire directly (most likely) but it has a ton of flexibility because the person doesn't work for you, they work for the other firm and are contracted to you long term.
Yeah, this is how i'd go. Or if there is a college near, you could snag an "intern"
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I am open to that choice, but I am leaning against it for the moment simply because I am optimistic that we will be able to convert this to full time. We really just need to lighten my workload for now and get one more solid quality client to make this a permanent position.
I am really on the fence at this point.
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MSPs can do full time or near full time options too. Like if you needed 30 hours every week and could commit to that and then use more sometimes, you could get a good deal that way.
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@JaredBusch said:
I am open to that choice, but I am leaning against it for the moment simply because** I am optimistic that we will be able to convert this to full time.** We really just need to lighten my workload for now and get one more solid quality client to make this a permanent position.
I am really on the fence at this point.
I got ya. put out an add for a temp position with possibility of full time. people gobble that up round here.
