We're a training company, and so we meet a lot of technical people in the course of our work ... getting quite an insite into the recruitment and career development fields. We don't act as a recruitment agency in any way, as that would be against the interest of the companies who are paying us to train their current staff - but we are sometimes able to put you in touch with independent contractors who have come on our courses and paid for their own places, and it's then up to you and them to sort out whether you're right for each other.

See also the Horse's Mouth, Well House Manor and the Opentalk forum