How do staffing agencies get access to jobs / MSP's?
As a freelancer in broadly speaking IT/engineering/PM, I'm often contacted by recruiters from many different staffing agencies for the same jobs. Both big established ones and tiny new ones, both Belgian and international.
So I wonder, where do they source their jobs?
I know multiple big companies that work with an MSP (e.g. Randstad sourceright or Manpower TAPFIN) instead of managing their own external workforce. But how/where are these jobs then publicized? How to get direct access to these?
I prefer to work with end customers or MSP directly, or at least get in the door before involving a 3rd party (if required), to avoid big middleman cuts or even worse getting burned for the job.
This has worked a couple times before, but these jobs have come to me directly or indirectly from the end customer hiring team, through my network.
There's probably a lot more where I don't know people on the inside, and I'm curious how to find them.
Mostly/initially for myself, but since I have a big network of professionals in my industry I might consider playing middleman myself with fair and transparent fees (e.g. fixed fee, time limited and/or low % options).
Anyone here who knows?
Freelancers fixing their own jobs, transparent or ex-staffers?