6Prog description

6prog was started by friends from Brighton, UK and Los Angeles, USA. We had all experienced recruiting, being recruited and working as a recruitment partner and felt that these tasks would benefit from a single solution. We discussed various propositions with a large number of people in our own networks and summarised the following characteristics with this multi billion dollar industry.

• Recruiters spend too much time doing paperwork when they should be networking. • Freelancers spend time chasing updates which can just be messaged directly. • Clients want multiple levels of recruitment expertise but would rather not have multiple suppliers. • Project Managers don’t have the time to read through multiple online profiles (the reverse job board service? “no thanks”). • Everyone wants clearer communication. • Everyone wants fair payment and fair charges. So we designed a workflow that allows members to deliver their function most effectively. Recruiters can be anyone with a book of contacts (it’s more valuable to a PM if you can recruit from people via experience or word of mouth). Project Managers and Freelancers can talk to one another. It’s fine - it really is! Network Recruiters are paid a fixed fee agreed per opportunity. Also margins should not exist (too many reasons to list!) and therefo