5 good reasons to bring a freelancer on board in your Life Sciences company

Here are 5 key reasons:

1. Flexibility

Many things can happen in your department that catch you off guard and where it won’t make sense to employ a new staff member – even though there is so much work to do. For example:

• Your company has a headcount freeze
  • Freelancers are paid by the budget of your department and not on the payroll of you company – so you can buy yourself flexibility for important tasks!

• One of your employees is on parenteral or sick leave
  • Freelancer will be ready to support you within very short time, a few days to a few weeks only and you don’t have to grapple with a lot of tasks that might otherwise go by the board
  • The freelancer is like a backup of the know-how when a key employee is absent

2. Expertise

• You only become an entrepreneur after a long time as a permanent employee- So freelancers have seen many companies and successfully mastered various challenges
  • Freelancers join your project with excellent skills and knowledge
  • Freelancers can transfer the knowledge to your situation and quickly provide solutions

• Fast Onboarding – Freelancers are often brought on board because you need support especially quickly, so fast productivity is what you want
  • Freelancers know exactly this kind of challenge from all of their projects so they know the most efficient methods to deliver results fast
  • Short training for SOPs, fast integration into the project team, fast recognition of responsibilities, effective prioritization of the tasks à conclusion: high accuracy for the tasks you gave to the freelancer

3. Solely functional role

• External specialists have no interest in a career in your company. They want to present a solution, take work off your hands and then they look forward to their next project
  • Perfomance interviews not necessary
  • No sensitivities you have to worry about
  • The kind of work is not important: Strategic operational, the freelancer helps where needed

4. Calculability

• You know your budget and you know the hourly or daily rate of the freelancer. And you only pay the freelancer when he/she really works for you
  • No costs during vacation
  • No costs during on sick days

5. Independence

• Freelancers are used to work without needing constant instruction, as you might have to give it to permanent employees
  • No supervising effort!

What we recommend: it is important that you instruct the freelancer in detail and comprehensively in the beginning, so that he / she can really work on their tasks right away and independently

If you are now convinced of the advantage to have a freelancer for your current lack of manpower or expertise in your department. Talk to Oliver Kremer: