Bel Grant is a longstanding published writer and commentator on flexible working through recruitment consultancies. Her feature articles are found in national and local newspapers, various business trade magazines and websites.
Bel first started flexible working in the early 1980s as a recruiter registered temporary worker for many corporate hirers, giving her plenty of free time to travel the globe and attend university. After successfully completing first and masters degrees at the London School of Economics and Political Science, she started up in business, specialising in project and programme communication through high volume, low margin recruiters, which typically service the IT sector. Later she specialised in strategic consultancy and interim management, sometimes work seeking through low volume, high margin interim management recruiters when she wasn’t offered work from her own clients.
Bel’s publications on recruitment-related topics is self-explanatory, but her passion for IR35, and the controversy it’s generated, is unstoppable. One contract reviewer told Bel that he considered her to be amongst the top 1% of lay-advisers and writers on this complex topic. Webboard owners and contractor service suppliers actively invite Bel to regularly contribute feature articles on these topics.
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Bel was invited to speak on a panel at the PCG’s very first National Freelance Day in November 2009. An organisation that she is vehemently opposed to on many issues – but mainly their third way perspective of categorising flexible workers into a collaborative body that she starkly refuses to countenance – the freelancing/contracting sector or community. So it was a bit like inviting a vegan to speak at a butchers convention.
Bel is solely responsible for recognising and formulating an intellectually credible body of non-third way writing that recognises that recruiter placed flexible workers should never be understood as a coherent, unified and like-minded body.
In her guidebook, Great Expectations, Bel is the only published writer that abstractly describes the main differences between a ‘deliverable’ and a ‘role.’ This enables PSC owning purchasers to see what components make up each of these two categories enabling them to readily recognise the kind of engagement they are undertaking so that they can tell whether they are likely to be inside or outside IR35 long before that nasty buff envelope arrives.
Bel’s non-third way articles are now uploaded onto the Flexible Working Expert blog. All contributing articles for other news and information sites are still listed on: www.twitter.com/BelGrant
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