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Contractors and Interim Managers

Contracting and interim roles are now firmly part of the management recruiting space. Drawing upon our extensive experience in a highly-specific field, Prosper offers advice and information to help you decide if contracting is right for your lifestyle and career aspirations.

Temp, contract and interim careers have increased in popularity. With well over a million people in the UK adopting temporary work as their career and lifestyle choice, what was once seen simply as a 'between-jobs' situation has taken its place among more traditionally-accepted employment options.

After all, temporary assignments and contracts can offer an appealing work/life balance, with people working when they want and enjoying the associated benefits, such as extended holidays, when they're not.

In keeping with this new-found respectability, however, there's a clearly great deal to consider.

What is contracting and interim management?

Contractors and interim managers offer consultancy and other services to client companies for a pre-determined period. Instead of the long-term expense of hiring permanent staff, a company might prefer to hire contractors to complete one-off projects, or address short-term fluctuations in business activity or managerial change.

As a contractor, you'll agree with a client company to work to a predetermined brief, mediated and co-ordinated by Prosper as your recruitment consultant. While they're usually for a finite period, contracts today are often extended beyond the working period initially agreed.

Working as a Contractor through Prosper

A dedicated consultant will be on hand to help and advise you throughout the period of your contract through Prosper. Provided you submit your timesheets and any other necessary paperwork by the dates requested, we'll ensure you get paid efficiently and on time.

Advantages of contracting:

• Higher pay rates than permanent roles due to the work's short-term nature
• High levels of working flexibility

• Broader scope of experience gained across different industries, businesses and projects

Possible disadvantages:

• You could lose certain company benefits such as private healthcare, pension, training and, in some cases, fully-paid sick leave and paid holidays
• Running a business incurs costs
• Periods of unemployment between contracts