28 January 2022
Planet Interim is one of the country's better known online platforms for hiring interim managers and freelancers. With the launch of a new talent proposition for consultancy firms, the platform now also helps agencies and secondment firms to build a long-term relationship with temporary experts. Reason for Consultancy.nl to talk to Niels van Berkel, owner of Planet Interim. Planet Interim mainly focused on interim managers and freelance professionals. Why this move to consultancy?
"This is an addition. The platform had always focused on all types of interim work for higher educated people, say everything that is 'not permanent', so also consultancy assignments."
"We noticed in recent years that consultancy firms and secondment companies were not only looking for new professionals for their projects through our platform, but also wanted to be able to represent their own people on the interim and consultancy market."
"Because the best professionals are scarce and in demand, it is important for consultancy firms to work on their good name as employers and clients. It then makes sense to remain 'top-of-mind' with professionals, even if they are looking for a new assignment after the end of a project or are already working elsewhere. If you can then stay visible as an organisation by using a hybrid account that also increases the visibility and job mobility of professionals, you kill two birds with one stone."
How does that work?
"The consulting organisation or secondment provider gets its own hybrid company account on our platform with which they can publish their own projects and assignments to which interim managers, consultants and freelance specialists can respond. The organisation can also easily approach interesting people proactively." "If a relevant professional updates his or her profile or signs up with us, you automatically receive a signal. This makes it easy to build talent pools."
Then you have the hat of a client who is looking for people, what is new?
"That's right, the nice thing is that with the hybrid company account you can now put on two different hats; it's new that you can now find new professionals for your own assignments as well as find new assignments for your own professionals. Via the agency's hybrid account, your own professionals can be connected, each of whom receives a subscription with a personal dashboard at Planet Interim, provided with the company logo and such."
"Then, through our platform, connected professionals are automatically matched daily with over 1,000 current interim assignments and consultancy projects from connected clients, over 300 intermediaries, brokers, MSPs as well as assignments on social media."
"When one of the affiliated professionals becomes available, both potential clients and our widely followed social media channels are automatically notified. The professionals can be made recognisable to potential clients in search results by the company logo on their profile. This makes your own professionals stand out even more to potential clients."
That seems laborious, to manage professionals individually. Can it be done centrally?
"You decide for each professional whether they can also manage their own professional account and receive all service e-mails with assignments from us. But you can also centralise it on your own, as we will automatically place the offer of assignments and projects across your entire portfolio of professionals. When there is a match with just one or more professionals from your pool, your organisation receives an alert from us."
"This allows you to manage centrally, while taking action on an individual level."
How then does the consultancy organisation profile itself as a good employer or client?
"The consultancy agency profiles itself as a good (former) employer because professionals can keep their account at Planet Interim even after the cooperation has ended. In this way you give temporary employees a tool with which they can present themselves on the market and are also automatically matched with 1,000 assignments per day."
"This way you invest in their labour mobility while the professional continues to see the agency logo on the dashboard and on all our communications. This automatically keeps you 'top-of-mind' with professionals you have worked with before."
Bron: verschenen op 25 januari 2022 Consultancy.nl 4 min. leestijd