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This newsletter is distributed to anyone selling in a Slivers-Of-Time
marketplace. Also, to those waiting for a market to start in their area who have registered at http://www.sliversoftime.com/
It will keep you posted on developments in this exciting new way of working. |
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IN THIS ISSUE |
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SELLER IN THE SPOLIGHT: SOFT SELL
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SLIVERS FUTURES: AND THE WINNER IS......
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TIP: THINK PROJECTS
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CASE STUDY: WORK IN THE DOWNTURN
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SELLER IN THE SPOLIGHT: |
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Soft sell
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Robert: sales dynamo
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Robert has a varied career in sales behind him. Cars, Recruitment, Mortgages; he’s sold them all. However Robert is disabled and in the last few years he has found work much harder to come by. It’s been a frustrating time – he enjoys working and has been looking for ways to productively use his skills and experience.
Robert’s skills are in demand. Several small companies have come to Slivers-of-Time looking for cost-effective outreach work to help them build their businesses. They want candidates with business and sales experience who could possibly work from home, working on the telephone to generate sales leads. Robert has got what the companies were looking for, and Slivers quickly signed him up.
Robert [Bookings: 4 , Hours Sold: 16, Buyers: 2] has just completed his first assignments through Slivers in Cambridgeshire. He’s been following up a marketing campaign to companies on his local Science Park and doing outreach for Charity Funding Solutions. It’s all going well. “I like to be busy and I want to build up my work, use my skills and come off benefits” he says.
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Driver Hire Slivers: Triumphant team.
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It was a merry night in Leeds recently. The region’s recruitment industry assembled for “Yorkshire’s Finest Recruitment Awards”. One of the nominees was Leeds based Driver Hire Ltd, who provide Slivers to Leeds Council. Their submission to the judging panel emphasised the team’s work in rolling out Slivers in the city.
“It was the last award of the night” recalls Vicki Grayson of DH’s Leeds branch. “Everyone else thought we couldn’t possibly win, but I just had this feeling we might”. And they did, beating some of the biggest agencies in the country. The people who made Slivers work in Leeds were announced as “Best Team, 2008”.
Their journey to Slivers started 3 years ago when the Council appointed DH as one of 14 agency suppliers of temps. Then the Council asked the 14 to bid to provide Slivers. “I think we won because we were so proactive about it” says Vicki, “A lot of the other agencies weren’t gung-ho enough”.
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Think Projects |
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Cartoon by Shamima Aktar Koli, Slivers-of-Time seller
[Bookings: 102, Hours Sold: 373, Buyers: 4]
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Set up to buy Slivers workers? Start thinking about what projects they could do for you around the organisation. Refurbishing rundown public areas? Archiving old documents? Clearing a backlog of filing?
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Work in the downturn |
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| THCT: Slivers driven events |
It started with the need to staff events, now it’s moving on to tackling a national problem. Tower Hamlets Community Housing is typical of Housing Associations around the country who have been using Slivers. It started as an ad hoc tool for staffing, now it’s being looked at for tackling the fundamental problem of worklessness.
THCT in East London used Slivers workers firstly for their residents’ events. If you’re laying on Pensioners’ parties, European Neighbours Days or Hop Festivals (it’s a Kent tradition), you need extra hands to do the setting up, catering and clean ups. “We’ve been very impressed with the level of service from Slivers-of-Time Workers” says Irene Paul, Resident Participation manager.
But THCH has bigger issues. Like many Housing Assocations, they are having to deal with the problem of residents who can’t find work. That’s set to be a growing problem as the financial squeeze tightens. Some estimates put worklessness among Social Housing residents as high as 50%. THCH is looking at setting up a worklessness strategy with other Housing Assocations, and Slivers could be key to it.
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November 2008
Published on the last Friday of the month |
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Slivers-of-Time Working: the basics
Marketplaces for Slivers-of-Time are for:
- Anyone who wants to work around other things in their life, such as:
-childcare
-studying
-part-time work
-caring for adult
-medical commitments
- Organisations who need top-up workers at short notice, for short periods:
-councils
-caterers
-retailers
-logistics supplier
Benefits:
- Sellers: do whatever odd hours of work they want and quickly build skills, experience and a track record they can print at any time.
- Buyers: access a self-selecting pool of local people who choose to work in a way that demands flexibility and rewards reliability.
Signing up:
Anyone who wants to know when a market-place is starting in their area should enter their details at:
www.sliversoftime.com
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