{ "item_title" : "Buildingwithout Permission", "item_author" : [" Randy Dosanjh "], "item_description" : "What happens when experience is no longer enough to open the door?A book for every Contractor, Gig-Worker, Recruiter, Manager, Owner and todays students and people who want to be in a Service Business and not just for I.T. Contractors. You all make up more than half the economy, even if you have a 'regular job'. Building Without Permission is the author's first-person examination of life inside the modern IT contracting economy - and what happens when recruitment agencies, hidden relationships, vendor systems, and professional gatekeepers begin to influence who receives access to opportunity.Drawing on more than two decades of experience across technology, data, analytics, cloud computing, e-commerce, manufacturing, supply chain, government, and enterprise consulting, The author explores the complicated labour market occupied by independent IT professionals. Contractors are often essential to the companies that hire them, yet they may remain outside traditional employment structures, dependent on recruiters, staffing firms, procurement departments, preferred-vendor lists, and decisions made behind closed doors.Part personal story and part industry analysis, this book examines: How IT contractors move between clients, agencies, and major organizationsHow recruitment firms, markups, rate negotiations, and vendor-management systems operateThe difference between legitimate candidate screening and professional gatekeepingHow broad experience can become difficult for conventional hiring systems to categorizeThe financial and personal consequences of unstable access to workCanadian and American labour-force statistics related to self-employment, contract work, temporary staffing, technology services, and workforce participationThe growing importance of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, data engineering, and independent consultingPractical ways professionals can build visible evidence, stronger networks, and careers that do not depend on one gatekeeperThe book does not argue that every recruiter is unfair or that every rejection is evidence of wrongdoing. Instead, he asks a more difficult question: what happens when informal narratives and private relationships become more influential than transparent evaluation?This is ultimately a book about recovery, accountability, entrepreneurship, and the decision to keep building.For professionals who have felt overlooked, misunderstood, difficult to categorize, or trapped inside somebody else's version of their career, Building Without Permission offers both recognition and a path forward.This book moves between three levels.The first is personal: how a nonlinear career was built, how access became uncertain, and how that uncertainty affected confidence, relationships, and business decisions.The second is structural: How staffing agencies, vendor systems, rate cards, procurement rules, algorithms, and informal reputation operate in the IT contract market.The third is practical: How independent professionals can build evidence, diversify access routes, price their work, protect their reputation, use AI responsibly, and recover without organizing the rest of their lives aroundproving that a gatekeeper was wrong. The argument is not that the market should have no intermediaries.The argument is that intermediaries should remain intermediaries. When a sourcing channel becomes the owner of a professional identity, the balance hasshifted too far. You may not control every gate.But you can still build a road around it and a road to every next destination.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/934/9798189349652_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.99", "online_price" : "19.99", "our_price" : "19.99", "club_price" : "19.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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