Flexitimers.com provides a cost effective solution to companies facing headcount cuts yet who still have human resource requirements. Flexitimers.com was established to address the needs of employers who wish to recruit staff with experience and skills but not on a permanent basis and professional people who want to work flexibly. In these recessionary times this style of recruitment makes strong economic sense for employers.
Flexible work takes all forms; part-time, contract or freelance, maternity cover or project work. Flexible professionals cost less than full-time staff and often come in and get the job done with very little minding. Flexitimers.com is aimed at all professionals across all industries.
Joy Redmond and Dervla Cunningham, co-founders, Flexitimers.com
There are many advantages of going direct for the employer - no recruitment company involvement, no time wasting, no mismatches and no high fees.
Furthermore, Flexitimers.com provides a solution to companies facing headcount cuts but who still have projects to complete. Hiring skilled and experienced professionals on an interim, freelance, part-time and contract basis will allow companies to remain competitive whilst keeping HR costs down.
Flexitimers.com is underpinned by functionality that matches employer’s needs to professionals who have the experience they require and emails are sent direct to the employer’s and professional’s Inbox. This means employers can screen, shortlist and contact candidates immediately.
The site is really simple to use – it takes only two minutes to upload a position or project and two minutes for professionals to upload a career profile. As the site is ‘direct hire’ site there is a very low cost to use it allowing employers to seriously maximise their recruitment budget.
Flexitimers.com which is headquartered in NovaUCD, with a regional office in Gorey Co. Wexford, was established in 2007 by two female entrepreneurs, Dervla Cunningham and Joy Redmond, who saw a niche in the market which they needed themselves. Flexitimers.com was a recent award winner at the NovaUCD 2008 Start-Up Awards.
Dervla Cunningham is a founder of two previous start-up companies, Zartis.com and Arekibo Communications. She co-founded Zartis, an ebusiness services company in 1998 which was subsequently sold in 2000 for $18 million to Boston-based Breakaway Solutions. In 2000 she co-founded Arekibo Communications, a web design and internet consultancy company where she managed and sold a large number of web projects in both the public and private sector. She left Arekibo in 2006 to co-found Flexitimers.com.
Joy Redmond was until recently a full-time lecturer in ebusiness, research and marketing in the Dublin Institute of Technology and was Course Director of the Masters Degree in Business and Entrepreneurship. She has been a market researcher for many blue chip companies including Bank of Ireland, Eircom and NTL. She was Marketing Director of newmedia.ie, and online marketing manager of ingredientsnet.com.
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14 January 2009
Editor’s NotesFlexitimers.com specialises in connecting and matching time-flexible positions posted by employers with professional staff seeking flexible work. Flexitimers.com was established in 2007 by Dervla Cunningham and Joy Redmond. Flexitimers has received funding and support from Wexford County Enterprise Board, NovaUCD, Dublin City Enterprise Board and Enterprise Ireland.
NovaUCD is University College Dublin’s €11 million Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre. NovaUCD has been funded through a unique public-private partnership that includes AIB Bank, Arthur Cox, Deloitte, Enterprise Ireland, Ericsson, Goodbody Stockbrokers, UCD and Xilinx. www.ucd.ie/nova.
