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About OfficeCavalry.com
OfficeCavalry.com aims to unite Project Owners with Freelance operators to help get skilled individuals into work, be they dedicated Freelancers, Graduates, Students or Home Workers supplementing their existing income by utilising their skills remotely.
OfficeCavalry.com's aim is to be recognised by its users as the leading customer centric online market place within clearly defined skill markets, ensuring that the needs of Project Owners are met and that Freelancers can maximise their careers and earning potential.
We are confident that the new business model on offer differentiates itself from existing on-line market places by championing the abilities and reliability of its users.
OfficeCavalry.com operates with no hidden fees. All our operating tariffs are defined on our Membership page.
OfficeCavalry.com does not endorse the purchase of additional credits to enable Freelancers to initiate required actions that ultimately equates to unforeseen costs and a further reduction of the received project values after the project has been completed.
OfficeCavalry.com has developed a charging mechanism that is simple and easy to follow, enabling all parties to budget at the forefront of assignments when using the service.
OfficeCavalry.com allows Project Owners to 'view and select' Freelancers and/or post a project to categorised individuals to maintain the highest quality of candidate selection and to avoid a 'Dutch Auction' on price that ultimately drives down the standard of work.
OfficeCavalry.com has implemented bespoke search engine functionality with advanced algorithms to assist Project Owners, through filtering processes, to select the best available candidates for assignments, ensuring that they remain in control of procedures, and by using the tools available to them can choose the best individual for their project without the distraction of having to view candidates based on bid submissions.
OfficeCavalry.com is a service based on integrity, quality and value and as such believes that if certain commercial and defined operational parameters are met or exceeded, then Freelancers will be paid in full for the delivery of defined projects.
There are a number of key check points that should be observed at all times:
- Both parties agree to a clear set of commercial parameters, not limited to but inclusive of the scope of the project, the timelines, fees and what the deliverables are. This is defined as the commercial 'handshake'.
- Freelancers do not commence a project unless OfficeCavalry.com has instructed them accordingly.
- Freelancers should deliver to the defined parameters of the commercial 'handshake' and only deviate from this if there is communication and agreement between both parties via their respective dashboards to do so.
- OfficeCavalry.com raises all relevant invoices for completed assignments based on the information extrapolated from the users' dashboards.
- Disputes are to be avoided where ever possible, and only flagged as a last alternative.
- Both parties have met the commercial obligation as defined in OfficeCavalry.com's Terms and Conditions.
If these simple rules are followed, the Freelancer will be guaranteed to be paid in full for the work completed.
A project can only commence after a number of security and validation checks have been undertaken to verify any card, PayPal or inter-bank transfer is legitimate and valid.
Small value projects that have been paid via a credit/debit card or via a PayPal Account will take no more than 36 hours from commercial 'handshake' for the project to commence and the same time for fees to be released after the Freelancer has completed the project to the Project Owner's satisfaction.
If users' banks are 'Fast Payment Service Enabled', sterling payments through inter-bank transfers using Transpact will be settled within hours. Non UK payments will be settled within one to three business days, but are subject to inter-bank cross-border agreements that may impact payment timelines.
OfficeCavalry.com will not hold users' monies any longer than required by batching payments to Freelancers at the end of each month. We believe that if a Freelancer has completed a project successfully, every effort should be made to have cleared funds paid within five working days of project completion.
Both the Project Owner and the Freelancer have the capability to rate the abilities of the other, enabling their respective communities to review their performance against specific criteria, maintaining the quality of the users.
OfficeCavalry.com rewards individuals not only for delivering quality, but also for their ongoing commitment, recommendations and professionalism.
Freelancers' combined Loyalty Points will convert to real money in the form of a Pro Membership term or an extension to an existing Pro Membership term.
Project Owners' accumulated Loyalty Points will convert to 'real money' that we pay out via bank transfer when points tallies reach stated thresholds.
OfficeCavalry.com is a new dynamic online market place designed specifically for Freelancers to profile themselves and to engage with Project Owners to deliver short to medium term deadline assignments. This service provides a new channel to get skilled individuals into work, be they dedicated Freelancers, Graduates, Students or Home Workers supplementing their existing income by utilising their skills remotely.
Thousands of businesses worldwide are now tapping into this vast resource pool, made available via the internet, to not only make huge cost savings but also allowing their organisations to remain flexible and to scale their business needs to meet new demands, quickly, without the cost and bureaucracy of traditional employment legislation.
Our vision is to enable every business to embrace this new way of working and to be recognised by Project Owners and Freelancers as the leading customer focused online market place within clearly defined skill markets.
OfficeCavalry.com has striven to deliver beyond expectations to implement new ideas that are marketing and customer centric, whilst ensuring that the needs of Project Owners are met and that Freelancers maximise their careers and earning potential.
We are confident that the service on offer differentiates itself from existing on-line market places by championing the abilities and reliability of all of its users.
Andy co-founded OfficeCavalry.com in February 2010 and has been fundamental in the concept, strategy, build, marketing and delivery of the new online marketplace to its targeted customer base.
Andy has in excess of 20 years experience in Telecoms, Mobile Technology, Internet Services and Consultancy and has had a number of senior roles across several global organisations. Andy's last major role before embarking on this new venture was at T-Mobile where he spent four years in several senior management roles, including UK Country Manager, responsible for the roll-out of its UK mobile portal and Head of UK Product Management, responsible for new portal developments.
Previously in his career, Andy has spent over ten years working at BT, gaining significant Telecoms experience within a range of sales, service, and business management roles including several general management posts with responsibility for sales, channel management and marketing with revenue responsibility, in excess of £100 million per annum. Andy has gained global knowledge and experience by working across Europe and in Australia and holds qualifications in Mechanical and Production Engineering, Business Studies in Industrial Management and has attended Henley Management College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, USA.
Andy possesses a wide range of commercial and business acumen and provides the leadership, management and vision necessary to ensure OfficeCavalry.com grows effectively and has the financial strength and operating efficiency to deliver a new business model into the ever expanding digital online marketplace.
Ian co-founded OfficeCavalry.com in February 2010 and is responsible for driving all Finance, Corporate Development, Human Resources, and Legal Affairs for the operation after spending much of his career working within businesses utilising permanent, full-time and part-time, agency and freelance personnel across a wide range of skills and specialist applications. Instigating and managing turnkey supply solutions for strategic national, regional-multiple and independent retail outlets has been a particular success during Ian's working life to date, taking responsibility for businesses with multi-million pound turnovers with very large permanent and temporary staff pools.
Ian's skills and experiences cover a wide range of general management that have been fundamental in negotiating and implementing several business mergers and take-overs, ensuring successful change management and logistical integration thereafter.
Qualifying as a mechanical design engineer, Ian moved on to engineering sales, and then into retail sales and marketing, rising to main board director level of highly rated privately owned companies operating in the wholesale, convenience and symbol group sectors of the food distribution marketplace.
Ian brings commercial competence and business expertise to OfficeCavalry.com and is very much aware of the needs and requirements of both Project Owners and Freelancers in today's changing working environment.
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