The creation of people4business

We came up with the idea of people4business Limited through a combination of four factors:

1 Personal experience

The company directors have worked within the contracting and consulting market — both as Buyers and as Sellers of services.

We knew there was a much more efficient way of managing contracts than anything currently in the marketplace.

2 All-industry job sites

The permanent employment job market has made a very successful transition to the internet and already has ‘all industry’ models that work very successfully.

We wanted to create an all-industry model for the contract job market.

3 Internet searching

Ever-increasing numbers of us are online and using the internet for searching for what we want.

We believed that familiarity with internet search engines would mean an easy transition to searching for skills and industries.

4 Online marketplaces

There are a number of successful and responsive online marketplaces for buyers and sellers of goods.

We knew there was a gap in the market for buyers and sellers of services.

Making it happen

Once we’d come up with the idea, we took it out to investors to secure the funding we needed to launch the website. We now have a group of skilled and committed investors from a range of industry and professional backgrounds.

The first website – people4business – launched in July 2006. Since then, we’ve attracted contractors, consultants and freelancers from all over the UK to register as Sellers on the people4 sites. Growing numbers of business Buyers are accessing highly skilled professionals for their assignments at industry-beating rates.

For more information on what has happened since we launched, please check out our news page.

Sector champions

Along with our management team, we also have a number of industry specialists who are championing people4business in different industry sectors.

We continue to launch new sites, including «www.people4charity.com», to meet the needs of the charitable and not-for-profit sector, and «www.people4web2.com», targeting buyers and sellers of skills in web 2.0.

Our engineering site «www.people4engineering.com» – in partnership with Adecco and Roevin – has seen thousands of specialist engineering professionals register with us.

Continual improvement

We continually improve all the people4 sites to make them easier for Buyers and Sellers to use.

We’ve improved our search process, introduced the free job board and are adding new functionality all the time.

Last updated 14.11.08