Originally posted by Mehmeh
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Originally posted by SneakySimon View Postagencies are scum
You need us as much as we need you, don't forget that.Comment
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Originally posted by P1mpAndPr0ud View Post...so don't use them. Find your own work.
You need us as much as we need you, don't forget that.Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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Originally posted by P1mpAndPr0ud View Post...so don't use them. Find your own work.
You need us as much as we need you, don't forget that.
The average contractor certainly does not like it up em and will refuse to do there own cold calling, lazy feckwits!I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying...Comment
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Originally posted by P1mpAndPr0ud View Post...
You need us as much as we need you, don't forget that.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostNot entirely accurate. A contractor can find work without an agent. An agent can't place a contractor without a contractor.
It is as accurate as you are going to get from a recruitment agentLet us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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Originally posted by P1mpAndPr0ud View Post...so don't use them. Find your own work.
You need us as much as we need you, don't forget that.Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostWell saidOriginally posted by Another Dodgy Agent View PostYes, well said.
The average contractor certainly does not like it up em and will refuse to do there own cold calling, lazy flipwits!"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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Originally posted by Moscow Mule View PostThere's no need to cold-call when I've only got to place one person (me) and everybody relevant in my industry knows what I'm doing. It's called maintaining a network. If more contractors did it you'd be out of a job so button it you bolshy lot...Comment
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Originally posted by expat View PostNo, they wouldn't. Their friends in HR, whether ex-agents themselves or just on the christmas list, would rule that you have to go through an agent even if you have already got the contract."See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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