Hiring Event Photographers: Tips and Best Practices It's event season and the perfect time to capture some incredible moments. Whether you're hiring an event photographer to produce images that will adorn your mantlepiece or you require marketing content to promote your brand, service or product, hiring an event photographer is a necessary step in the journey. 

If the pandemic has taught business managers and founders anything, it's that we must learn to trust our teams. COVID has expedited what we in the freelance sector have been predicting for a while. A full reevaluation and restructuring of our workforce to integrate remote working, a better work-life balance and less emphasis on the factory model. Now, as companies settle into a new way of working, have we done enough to incorporate an ethical freelance hiring process into our blended model?

2020’s been a rollercoaster year for many startups.

It’s that time of year again.  Department heads, line managers, and founders are coming together to pick the bones out of the year that was. The annual audit and, my word, it won’t be standard fare this time around!

Growing a talented team is at the heart of every successful business. Recruiting, hiring, sourcing... they all mean the same thing right?  While all of these terms refer to a common process which many of us attend to quite regularly, how often does one sit back and consider the way in which this process is actually designed? Does the current structure make sense in today's flexible working world? And who does it favour? 

As 2020 draws to a close, half of the UK workforce is working from home (ONS). Thanks to remote work, companies suddenly have access to a wide-ranging talent pool. Having multiple opinions, ideas and cultures represented within a company not only improves productivity and boosts innovation but also creates ways to attract a broader audience.

As we continue to navigate our way through this lingering pandemic and an impending second lockdown, startups are trying to figure out the most effective way to run their businesses.

Trying to find a freelancer? Having trouble finding a suitable candidate? Hiring a freelancer for a bite-sized task with a very clear brief is a relatively straightforward process. A data-entry job or a simple coding fix has a clear start and end point that is easy to explain, manage and measure.  Finding freelancers who provide creative work, feel passionate about the client’s mission, communicate well throughout the process and provide much more than just the service they were hired for, can be a bit more challenging.