I'm here with Bejan from Artisan Talent.
We're talking about the scarcity of great talent.
Sure.
But you run an agency that's been finding and retaining these people for decades.
What are some of the benefits?
What is it that you do differently that allows you to keep this amazing people?
Sure.
One is that we've been in the business for over 25 years.
And we have connections with some very large, major corporations to high end design firms,
marketing companies.
And so, we can offer positions to talent that they wouldn't necessarily get on their own.
So it's a good foot to the door of these companies.
Makes total sense, opportunities that I couldn't find on my own is Number One.
What's Number Two?
Number two is depending on the amount of hours that they work through us, they can actually
have access to benefits.
And those benefits can include a 401(k) Plan, Health Insurance that we pay for.
I'm sorry, I'm just checking.
So you're saying freelance people can get the benefits of a fulltime role?
Yes, they can.
And beyond those?
Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt.
That's okay.
Because that's little unheard of in the industry but it's something that we feel very strongly
about being advocate to a talent that we represent.
If they accumulating and putting in those hours, we feel that we should give back.
And that means that we give back in Holiday Pay and also vacation.
401(k) and vision as well.
I've got to say that does sound kind of unprecedented from my experiences of freelance overtime.
(Sure).
One of the other things that you spoke to me about is got to be a reason for people
to stay with you for long periods of time, beyond just the gorgeous smiling faces, is
you have some unique payment terms.
As a freelancer I'm used to having to go on 30 or 60 or 90 days.
You got a unique approach there.
What do you do in that space?
Try to make it very simple for the freelancer.
They do register with us.
They go on the job, they hand in the hours on a Monday, they get paid on the Friday.
And direct deposit.
So what you're saying is, potentially before you've been paid by the client, you pay the
talent.
So that they get that kind of hot big income.
Absolutely.
And then fourth group of things, I'm imagining, a few agencies do this, but you make all the
pain go away in terms of contracts, invoicing, all of that.
Can you just tell me about the left-brain stuff I don't want to know about?
So, as a freelancer you do have to go find your own work, if you're doing it on your
own it can be very difficult and you don't really want to deal with it.
So we take care of all the marketing, all the billing, all of the taxes, all the paperwork,
all you really need to do is hand in you timesheet, your hours it's all done online and you get
paid immediately.
That sounds totally sensible to me.
Alright, well cool.
Thank you for this advice on the process of finding and retaining great talent (Absolutely).
I'm imagining if I'm a potential client for you, I'm a big company or small, sounds like
a good plan to me to make all of that process go away and just short-circuit the whole thing.
What's my best first step in connecting to you guys to see if I'm a god fit for you?
Certainly can go to our website artisantalent.com you can register there.
And also you can go through social media channels be it through Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn
and there's the good old telephone and that works very well and you will get human on
the other end.
Sound pretty good.
Thank for your advice on this.
Appreciate it.
Sure, no problem.
Thank you.