Newbie wannabe contractor posts

[cojak]

And let's not forget the influx of ex-Public Sector contractors who will be looking for work in the Private Sector...

[eek]

And let's not forget the influx of ex-Public Sector contractors who will be looking for work in the Private Sector...

Why do you think I'm out of clientco in December come what may....

[SussexSeagull]

Potentially a shift to a new way of operating? There may be a need to become a specialist MSC if the market accepts that cheap contractors can exist straight out of uni.

It is just another way go business passing on risk to employees and suppliers. I don't see it getting any better post-Brexit.

[LondonManc]

It is just another way go business passing on risk to employees and suppliers. I don't see it getting any better post-Brexit.

I don't think Brexit will have anything to do with it. The realisation that outsourcing doesn't deliver the value that it is intended to is an exercise that each organisation must endure.

[SussexSeagull]

I don't think Brexit will have anything to do with it. The realisation that outsourcing doesn't deliver the value that it is intended to is an exercise that each organisation must endure.

I was more making a general point about zero hour contracts, large companies squeezing smaller suppliers and the above mention getting contractors in straight from University.

[LondonManc]

I was more making a general point about zero hour contracts, large companies squeezing smaller suppliers and the above mention getting contractors in straight from University.

Ah right. Contractors straight in from uni for me is a big threat to the contractor badge; hence my suggestion that there needs to be a specialist market and a cattletractor market.

[eek]

Ah right. Contractors straight in from uni for me is a big threat to the contractor badge; hence my suggestion that there needs to be a specialist market and a cattletractor market.

And finally others note a problem I've known about for years which the IPSE still haven't picked up on.

There are an awful lot of people who contract / freelance because that's the only work available to them not because they want to.

[LondonManc]

And finally others note a problem I've known about for years which the IPSE still haven't picked up on.

There are an awful lot of people who contract / freelance because that's the only work available to them not because they want to.

Fair enough; it's more a question of how they're getting selected that's an issue then. Can't imagine the conversation that leads to bringing in a graduate contractor.

[eek]

Fair enough; it's more a question of how they're getting selected that's an issue then. Can't imagine the conversation that leads to bringing in a graduate contractor.

Here's the budget but you currently can't add anyone to payroll.

The latter bit is incredibly common in the public sector at the moment.

[LondonManc]

Here's the budget but you currently can't add anyone to payroll.

The latter bit is incredibly common in the public sector at the moment.

Oh dear. Then these clowns get some sort of delusions of adequacy and end up in the grey world of unemployed but employed at the same time. Cue the unemployment surge next May.