Agencies changing CVs?

[IT contract agent]

my margins - are between 14.8 and 27%.

I chose only to work above 20% and have turned away business that’s less than that...... and in the same sentence.....but sometimes am forced to do business lower (given resources)

will happily tell my contractors the margins I work on if they ask - although it has nothing to do with them!

[DodgyAgent]

my margins - are between 14.8 and 27%.

I chose only to work above 20% and have turned away business that’s less than that...... and in the same sentence.....but sometimes am forced to do business lower (given resources)

will happily tell my contractors the margins I work on if they ask - although it has nothing to do with them!

You were doing alright until you started the "turned away business" bulltulip. Why is it that every agent pumps themselves up in this way when we all know that we are all desperate and grateful (we avoid showing it though) for anything we get.

You guys are not NL, no one is impressed by this "I only do 20%" bollocks (even if it is true). Small wonder that contractors think we are a bunch of spivs

[expat]

Not denigrating your sterling efforts in any way, but that is the heart of the whole contractor/recruitment problem.

If the agencies were to stop selling "people with x years experience in .NET, C#, PHP, Java and SQLserver" and started selling "people who know how to build a website", the whole industry would be a lot better off.

We are not warm bodies, nor are we bums on seats, we are professionals with a set of skills that can solve problems. If the end clients could be educated into buying solutions rather than pseudo temps, 90% of the issues would go away. So there's today's challenge - devise a way to undo 10 years of FUD in contractor placements.

I think Malvolio has an excellent point. A good agent needs to know the difference between the job and the toolkit.

So I suppose does a good contractor. Ever see a plumber advertise that he does Stillson Wrench, Pipe Cutter, and Solder?

[realityhack]

A wonderful thing happened to me on the way to the office...

Agency called - sent CV, interview lined up, went well, offered job and accepted.

Only 3 weeks into the role and I find out the agency put JSP on my cv - when the client asked me to look into some script.

Erk - a bit taken aback, but sussed out the code and still with the client. Can't say it did any favours for my trust in agencies.

Anyone had anything like this happen to them?