By Joyce Teo

SINGAPORE firms keen to keep costs down in these grim economic times are increasingly willing to sign up key finance professionals on temporary contracts instead of hiring pricey full-time staff.

Such hired guns can be taken on for specific periods to boost the existing talent pool, aimed at specialised tasks and then let go when the job is done.

That means more bang for the corporate buck and fewer high-priced executives sitting around twiddling their thumbs in a slow economy.

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