PM Gigs

[speling bee]

"Prices may be indicated exclusive of VAT at an outlet or through
advertisements from which all of your business is with business customers.
If you also conduct business at that outlet or through these advertisements
with consumers, however, VAT inclusive prices for all goods offered by traders
to consumers are required by the Price Marking Order"

But you don't indicate the 7% as exclusive of VAT. You don't indicate whether it is inclusive or exclusive of VAT.

[BlasterBates]

We had a meeting today where the PM pointed out that almost 50% of the developers are contractors.... happy days?

All of them based in Romania.....

[Hireonomy]

But you don't indicate the 7% as exclusive of VAT. You don't indicate whether it is inclusive or exclusive of VAT.

This is taking the thread off topic, but to answer you: we are exclusively B2B therefore we do not need to state the fee as being inclusive/exclusive of VAT as it is commonplace for all B2B sites to be EXCLUSIVE of VAT.

[redgiant]

Any other IT PM's finding the market tough at the moment around London upwards? Been looking for a while now with leads coming in but no interviews which is unusual for me. I'm being very proactive, have revamped the CV, calling agents I've worked with in the past, dogging previous contacts (not literally) for leads, updating Linked in, chasing roles applied for on the job boards. I'm also studying to increase my qualifications (PMP, APM). Not sure I can do anything else..

Anyone else having the same problem?

Nope ... managed to get a gig almost straight after leaving my last one in central London a couple of months ago.

Have you got any specialist products you have managed projects on e.g. SAP, Business Objects etc. as I have tailored CVs to highlight certain large projects that I have managed in the past as well as a more general technical PM CV for the job boards. Also worth having a industry specific CV where you have had several clients in the same sector e.g. such as financial services or online gaming.

Good luck!

[speling bee]

This is taking the thread off topic, but to answer you: we are exclusively B2B therefore we do not need to state the fee as being inclusive/exclusive of VAT as it is commonplace for all B2B sites to be EXCLUSIVE of VAT.

You just quoted some legislation saying that you should indicate a price as exclusive of VAT, but you're not going to.

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[TheFaQQer]

"Prices may be indicated exclusive of VAT at an outlet or through advertisements from which all of your business is with business customers. If you also conduct business at that outlet or through these advertisements with consumers, however, VAT inclusive prices for all goods offered by traders to consumers are required by the Price Marking Order."

If you are only going to reference a four year old document from BIS rather than the legislation, you might want to look a little lower in the Pricing Practices Guide from which you quote:

(iii) Professional fees
2.2.11 Where you indicate a price (including an estimate) for a professional fee, you should make clear what it covers. The price should generally include VAT. In cases where the fee is based on an as-yet-unknown sum of money (for example, the sale price of a house), you should either:

(a) quote a fee which includes VAT; or
(b) if this is difficult to calculate, make it clear that in addition to your fee the consumer would have to pay VAT at the current rate (for example "fee of 1.5% of purchase price, plus VAT at 17.5%).

[TheFaQQer]

You just quoted some legislation saying that you should indicate a price as exclusive of VAT, but you're not going to.

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<pedant>They didn't quote any legislation at all - it's this document from BIS</pedant>

[speling bee]

<pedant>They didn't quote any legislation at all - it's this document from BIS</pedant>

Thank you for the clarification.

[mudskipper]

I'm confused

Humour me.

If a contractor is hired for £400 pd + VAT it's £480

Whether hieronomy charge 7% * 400 + VAT
or 7% * 480 inc VAT

the figure works out the same

7% of £480 = £33.60 (inc vat)
7% of £400 = £28 + VAT = £33.60

It would only be if they charged
7% of £480, + vat = £40.32 that it wouldn't be clear.

[CoolCat]

Have a guess how many IT PM's have come in from India on intra company transfer visas for the outsourcers recently? and been subcontracted onto other organisations for less than you can afford to work for...