Our Platform

How It Works

Rapidly turn bench time into billable hours

Generate revenue from your team’s in-demand skills by hiring out consultants when they are between projects.

Get consultants off the bench and monetise your spare capacity.

Quickly locate the skills you need on your team

Fill gaps in your team’s skill set by finding available consultants with the know-how you need to deliver your projects.

Increase your ability to win project bids through increased access to skilled resource.

Directly negotiate and trade skills with other consultancies

Manage resource and project delivery more efficiently and mitigate risks by exchanging NDAs and agreeing commercial terms.

Build relationships for partnerships and business development.

Save time and cut costs by avoiding agency recruiters

Find the right resource first time, every time. Avoid delays and wasting money on hiring through recruitment agencies.

Why explain to recruiters when you can talk directly to those that speak your language?

Better project management and support for growth

Improves project management by making it easier to access skilled resource that you need.

Increases the potential for your business to take on more project work, supporting growth.

Features

Built by IT consultants for IT consultancies

Designed by industry insiders who understand the needs of consultancies to make the most of expensive fixed-cost resource.

Accurately pinpoint skills

IT consultant profiles concisely identify and score areas of technical and sector expertise and experience.

Provide the right data so those looking for skills easily identify consultants matching their requirements.

Define your skills gaps

Define projects and the requirements for consultants with skills that you need.

Post information quickly and easily to enable other IT consultancies to see where they may have qualified resource available to meet your project needs.

Fresh high quality data

Projects from consultancies with skills requirements auto-delete after 21 days to ensure all project information is fresh and prevent time wasting.

How It Works

Hire out or locate IT skills

Sub-contract out the skills on your bench. Find and hire the know-how you do need. Always be sure information about skills offered or required is up to date.

Hire out your benched resources

Post consultant profiles

Simplified process lets you rapidly create concise consultant profiles. Define the specialised skill sets and industry expertise of IT consultants that you wish to hire out.

Search for opportunities

Identify projects where your consultants may be a good fit with skills requirements for the IT projects of other businesses.

Open a direct dialogue

Directly communicate with employers to exchange NDAs, get further information, establish confidentiality and agree commercial terms.

Search for IT skills you need

Post project requirements

Provide project information that defines the requirements for consultants with the skills you need to deliver existing projects, or projects in the pipeline.

Search for skills you need

See the right information to let you quickly identify consultants of interest and obtain the contact details of their employers.

Open a direct dialogue

Directly communicate with employers to exchange NDAs, get further information, establish confidentiality and agree commercial terms.

Blog

IT industry news and views for the BenchBee community

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Why BenchBee?

BenchBee. Where the IT industry makes the most of precious resource.

Unlike conventional, ‘marketplace’ style approaches for trading skills, BenchBee doesn’t take a slice of each transaction.

Subscribers simply pay a flat fee for posting both consultant profiles with skills for hire, and for projects where they require additional skills. Consultancies directly connect with each other to conduct business without any involvement of BenchBee.

There’s no need to brief recruiters. No wasting time on candidates who are put forward ‘hopefully’. And no waste of money paying disproportionate fees or commissions to those who add little value.

That’s the efficiency and value of BenchBee.