Contractor Survey

[rkdmobile]

Hi, just doing a quick poll of the contractor community - would really appreciate your thoughts (2 quick questions).

1. How do you currently track potential new contracts?

• Spreadsheet
• Notes/email
• Another app
• Mostly in my head

2. If there was a simple tool to help you keep track of your next contract opportunities, would you use it?

• Definitely
• Maybe
• Not needed

If yes/maybe, what roughly would you expect something like this to cost (monthly or annual subscription)?

Feel free to reply to this thread, or PM me.

Regards.

[courtg9000]

Im not a strict contractor any more and retired but for a few things I need to keep track of like contracts I use an open source CRM.
I'm a big fan of open source web based stuff.

[Lotok]

Sounds like you are looking to reinvent the CRM. As a software dev contractor, I just kept my eye on opportunities coming up. Contracting days are over though. HMRC's aggressive attack on my accountant and branding me an MSC seen to that.

[Croesus]

Since, in the current market, my cv is highly tweaked for each role I've applied for, I simply create a folder in My Documents and name it after the jobserve(or whatever) reference and dump my tweaked cv in there.

That's it.

[northernladuk]

Wish there were enough gigs out there to track. You are asking a bunch of (mostly) IT professionals if they will pay for an app to track something that are difficult to come by? Good luck with that.

[ladymuck]

I have never tracked potential contracts. I either get a call asking if I'm available or I apply for a few things on the usual websites and see if anything materialises.

Gone are the days where you'd get a call back for every application and you'd have to quickly work out which role you'd applied for.

[eek]

Wish there were enough gigs out there to track. You are asking a bunch of (mostly) IT professionals if they will pay for an app to track something that are difficult to come by? Good luck with that.

It’s worse than that he’s asking people many of whom can code or even vibe code a similar system in no time at all.

the fact I’ve found Gmail has done the job for 20 years doesn’t help either. Apply for contract , phone rings find out name and quick search gives me the details

[sadkingbilly]

Have you asked your accountant??
asking for a friend

[milanbenes]

that is a good question

Milan.

[northernladuk]

It’s worse than that he’s asking people many of whom can code or even vibe code a similar system in no time at all.

That was kind of my point regarding the IT professionals but I didn't make it very clearly. Irrelevant solution to the wrong audience who didn't need it anyway. Great bit of entrepreneurial thinking.