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Recent content by phillrow
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Agencies to avoid....
Yeah....just had a less than professional interaction with them......:mad:- phillrow
- Post #34
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Anybody ever used currencies.co.uk to transfer their dosh from euros?
I've used xe.com myself.- phillrow
- Post #15
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Worrying trend of Indian agents
Yes I have seen the old Knutsford gig's are coming up again.....got a little stuffed around with them last time. Was told that the role was/could be based in London. Seems that there are also some Barclays adds with the job being based in London, but as soon as you ring the agent they start...- phillrow
- Post #23
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Worrying trend of Indian agents
Have had my hands on both Power7 p780 & p795, they are out there. The p795 is a nice bit of kit, just still got a few of the new and shiny bugs in it though.- phillrow
- Post #18
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Worrying trend of Indian agents
yeah just got a call from one of the Indian agencies......offering £180 a day for AIX in Manchester.....considering that there is someone offering £500 a day in Bournemouth for AIX.....and most are offering between £350-450 they are quite below the market.- phillrow
- Post #15
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Registering with an umbrella company from Australia
There is a limit on how long your considered a foreigner for the contractor tax things. You can tax deduct your rent for the first 2 years and flights to/from your home country for the first 5....or something like that. CXC or the like will sort you out with up to date info on that. The guy...- phillrow
- Post #9
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Contracting in Oz?
yes, as is pretty much anything of a decent size- phillrow
- Post #27
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Registering with an umbrella company from Australia
Oh and I also had no issues with agents and choice of Umbrella. I don't think that they really care as long as they are being invoiced and then making payments to a legitimately setup business with the relevant paper work and VAT or whatever number it is that you need in the UK that is roughly...- phillrow
- Post #7
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Registering with an umbrella company from Australia
I have used CXC in both Aust and the UK (www.cxcglobal.com). Talk to them about it. I did basically what you did with flights etc. Another multinational umbrella to look at it ITG/myOE (myoe.com) which a friend of mine has used in both Oz and the UK. As a foreign non-resident contractor you...- phillrow
- Post #6
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Contracting in Oz?
Unix systems, AIX & Solaris mainly, a bit of HP-UX and Linux thrown in for good measure. In the *nix space in Melb one of the bigger issues is probably that IBM are such a large shop and they are sending everything that they can to India and letting a lot of guys go, so the *nix part of the...- phillrow
- Post #25
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Returning to perm is almost impossible
yeah...it's hard going back perm...especially the lack of flexibility about the level of holidays that you can take.- phillrow
- Post #11
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Contracting in Oz?
hummmm hummmm I've been back in Oz (Melbourne) since August and I would have been much better off staying in London....Damn those visa changes...anyway....for my line of skills the market here is crap, not to mention the general expectation to pull miracles out of, well...crap gear. A...- phillrow
- Post #23
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Good permie salary for Australia?
Yeah both Melbourne and Sydney as just as or more expensive to live in than London and our wages/contract rates are much less. I took a 60% cut coming back here (damn those UK visa changes), it's not much fun really....and that was based on the getting low to what they had been London rates and...- phillrow
- Post #16
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Good permie salary for Australia?
Hummm.....$400 a day....goes to show how weak the Oz market is atm. Melbourne is expensive enough, Sydney is even worse but at least as a foreigner you'll be able to claim your rent etc as pre-tax, unfortunately for us Oz citizens that's not really an option.- phillrow
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
