Being a consultant at Academic Work means that we pay your salary, insurance and make sure that you have a dedicated Consultant Manager throughout your employment. As a consultant you will be ambulant and, in that way, get the opportunity to both broaden and specialize your career within one or more areas. It also gives you the possibility to try on different roles and create a network that will be of great value for the rest of your career. Whether you are studying, just starting out on your first job or been working for a few years, we are convinced that you have ended up at the right place, with us at Academic Work.

We want to be your career partner

As career partner, it is our job to ensure that you feel safe, welcome and well-informed during your employment. We are here throughout your journey - from contract signing and follow-up while working on your assignment, to acting as a reference when and if you choose to proceed to a new assignment.

As a consultant at Academic Work, you own your own development. You control set your own ambitions, while we are here to support you through follow-up, coaching and feedback during your assignment. We also support you through our large network of interesting companies and services; large and small, international as national, public as private.

To be an ambulant consultant

As an ambulant consultant, you are employed at Academic Work and work on behalf of our client companies. To give you with a full-time employment an extra employment safety we guarantee a part of your salary in return of you being available for work, whether you are on assignment or not. This is further explained in the section called “Salary and conditions”. The guarantee salary also mean that you have a duty to work on the assignments we give you within your area of collective agreement and your geographical area.

If your assignment was to be terminated for any reason, but you still have an active employment with us at Academic Work, you will be available for new assignments. In that case our ambition is that we together with you will find a new, exciting and relevant assignment as fast as possible. During the time you are without an assignment you will receive guarantee salary. Therefore, we expect you to actively help us find an assignment through ongoing contact with your Consultant Manager. Please note that guarantee salary is only for our full-time consultants. If you are a part-time consultant, you are only entitled to guarantee salary in special cases. Contact your Consultant Manager for more information.

Webinar: Navigating the world of AI and Machine Learning

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You'll also find valuable extra material which our speaker Niklas has collected for you!

Webinar: Self-development

Self-development, in all of its forms, is pivotal for both personal enrichment and career progression. On a personal level, it fosters resilience, adaptability, and emotional intelligence. Professionally, it ensures relevance in fast-evolving industries, enhancing one's value and leadership potential. In this webinar, you’ll gain a better understanding of what self-development is and learn how it can impact your career. You’ll discover strategies for how you can get started on your journey, create your personal path to success, and how to tackle potential challenges along the way. Ready to supercharge your growth and take control of your own development? Dive in with us!

Webinar: Psychological safety

To ensure that the best idea wins out, everyone needs to be open to discussion and unpretentious about their own ideas. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Often the loudest voice is the one that prevails. This is why psychological safety is pivotal. In this webinar you will learn about psychological safety, how to dodge stupid ideas, and what you can do to foster innovation within your company or working group.

Who is your manager?

Your Consultant Manager at Academic Work is your closest manager. If you have any questions regarding your employment, please talk to your Consultant Manager. On your specific assignment you will also get a supervisor. It is a person whom our client designates and which you primarily have contact with regarding questions about the everyday work at your assignment. Together, your Consultant Manager and your supervisor are responsible for ensuring that you work in a safe and sustainable work environment.

Cooperation with your manager

You will now start a cooperation with your Consultant Manager, a cooperation we want to become both successful and long-term. Before the cooperation begins it is important that you know what kind of expectations we and the client company have on you as a consultant. It is equally important that we get to know what kind of expectations you have on us as an employer, so that you and your Consultant Manager can set up guidelines for your unique cooperation.

During your employment we want to make sure that you feel safe, welcome and well-informed. We therefore recommend that you and your Consultant Manager keep a close and open dialogue and follow up on your assignment.

Tip: Do you have questions about your employment? Check out our FAQ for the most common questions and answers.

Expectations

In order for you and your Consultant Manager to be able to build a successful and long-term relationship it is important that you clear what expectations you have on each other. Use the expectations that are listed below as a starting point and adapt them if needed to fit your unique collaboration.

As a consultant we expect you to ...

Perform the tasks assigned you are assigned
Follow instructions and routines for time-reporting
Be eager to perform and provide information according to deadlines
Ask questions if something is unclear
Take part of and make sure you understand policies at the client company
Take responsibility and contact your Consultant Manager immediately in case of problems or dissatisfaction
Inform your Consultant Manager if you feel over- or under loaded at your assignment
Contribute with positive energy and act for the best for both the client company and Academic Work

As a consultant you can expect from your Consultant Manager …

That he/she work for you to feel safe, welcome and well-informed during your employment
Is your closest contact at Academic Work during your assignment/employment
Make sure that all rules and laws regarding your employment are followed
Follow up on your work on an ongoing basis (by agreement)
Creates an understanding for your ambitions in your career
Support you in networking with other consultants
Act as a reference for future jobs

Questions that are good to discuss with your Consultant Manager during the contract signing or during on-going assignment

How do we reach each other – telephone, text message or email?
How often are we going to have follow-ups?
How to we leave feedback to each other regarding the cooperation?
What happens if the client wishes to recruit, in other words hire me?
Will more people at Academic Work be involved in our cooperation?

Before your first working day

Being new at work can be nervous, and we fully understand that. Before your first working day, it is important that you together with your Consultant Manager make sure that you know when you are expected to arrive at the workplace and who will be receiving you. Make sure that you also know how to report your worked time. Your Consultant Manager will perform a risk-analysis beforehand together with the client company to ensure that you come to a safe work environment.

Please read through our checklist before your first working day. You and your Consultant Manager will go through the checklist together. Also make sure to read our alcohol and drug policy, and how we work with our social and organizational working environment.

Time reporting

Your are personally responsible for reporting all your worked hours. This is done through your profile at academicwork.se. When you have worked your first day on the assignment, and log onto your profile, you will get access to the time-reporting function. Read more in our instructions for time-reporting on how to proceed. For us to be able to pay your salary, you must report your hours before the end of the month – an advice is to create a reminder for this.

Instructions for time reporting

You are our representative

As a consultant at Academic Work, you represent us and our brand. Our client, the company you work at, will evaluate us primarily based on the work you perform. Therefore, your work effort, attitude and mind-set as a consultant is crucial to us. While you represent and build Academic Work's brand, you also build your own brand – which is the basis for a future reference. Of course, we have full confidence in you and look forward to a successful cooperation.

If you want to know more on how you become a strong representative of Academic Work or how you build your own brand, talk to your Consultant Manager.

We offer skills development within sustainability

The labor market experiences a growing demand for competency within sustainability. Therefore, we offer skills development within the area through “Hållbarhetsacceleratorn.” The course gives you insights and tools for working with environmental and social sustainability – something that will benefit both you and your employer. The course is digital, takes around 1,5 hours to complete, and you can start it at any time. You find the course on the consultant web, under "Mina kurser" in the left side menu.

We want your feedback

In the same way our clients evaluate Academic Work, you have the possibility to evaluate us as an employer. It is important that you are satisfied and safe in your employment with us and we always want to ensure that. Therefore, we will send you a web survey every three month where we ask you to assess your experience of collaborating with us. It is of course okay to leave your feedback anonymously, but it will make it easier for your Consultant Manager to act on constructive critic or thank you for positive feedback if you leave your name.

Blow the whistle on serious misconduct – completely anonymous

Academic Work is committed to the highest standard of transparency, accountability, and integrity within our business, and we are dedicated to ensuring that our company and business is characterized by these key values. Our employees and consultants are encouraged to report any conduct which they believe to be in violation with laws, ethic principles or our internal policies to their consultant manager or, if needed, a manager of higher rank.

However, there may be situations where it is not possible or appropriate to report misconduct in accordance with the above procedures. Academic Work has therefore implemented a procedure for reporting unethical or illegal misconduct through a web-based form which ensures confidentiality, excludes conflict of interests as far as possible, and guarantees full anonymity if desired. Reports are received and evaluated by a third party who handles any additional communication with the reporting individual and forwards the errand to an appropriate receiver within Academic Work for further investigation and actions.

The primary purpose of the whistleblowing procedure is to uphold AW Groups Code of Conduct by encouraging staff to report suspected serious wrongdoings. Examples of serious misconduct which can be reported includes bribery, fraud, theft, corruption, harassment, and discrimination.

Please note that this procedure aims at misconduct of serious character within Academic Works business and organization. General dissatisfaction and minor issues shall be reported through other means, such as directly to your Consultant Manager. Misconduct within the company where your assignment takes place should be reported directly to that company.

Should the reporting individual choose to be anonymous, the identity of the individual will be kept secret from both Academic Work and the receiving third party. Should the reporting individual prefer to report misconduct via telephone or physical meeting instead, this is also possible. The reporting individual will not be subject to any negative consequences when filing the report, or any time thereafter. To learn more, please read our Whistleblowing Policy, available here.

The report form is available here.

Prohibition against discrimination in the workplace

We want you to feel welcomed by us and perceive us as an attractive employer. It is important that you as a co-worker get the chance to grow and challenge yourself, and that all co-workers are treated the same - no matter their role or background. If you, for any reason, feel or have felt discriminated during your employment, we encourage you to reach out to us. We are here to help you!

Recommend new opportunities!

As a consultant you are our eyes and ears at the client company. If you discover that there are opportunities for us to make further contributions at the company you are working for, in terms of recruitment and staffing – do not hesitate to contact your Consultant Manager. It can for example be about a manager that has a lot to do and need help during a shorter period of time, a project that is close to deadline or a colleague that will quit and need replacement. If your tip leads to a new assignment, we will show our appreciation by giving you 2000 SEK (exclusive social fees) the month after the assignment has been appointed.

Rules for when tip-bonus is issued:

It must be a new order that Academic Work did not know about
The assignment needs to be appointed by Academic Work