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If you can do it its great, I haven't used an agent to get a job since 2011, not that I will rule them out but going direct you have so much more negotiation on rates and other stuffOriginally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy View PostOk, just boomed a new contract
This is my second one in a row that didn't involve an agent. I used Linkedin to network and got a hit and a contract the next day. I'm feeling happy with my strategy to not link with agents, just actual contacts. There are a few agents that I link with but these are people who I have done business with in the past and were ethical and had more than one brain cell. This is my business model now. -
That's what I do, only those agents I've worked with become a connection."I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
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