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Indian recruitment consultancies operating in the UK
Thanks for the warnings, I accidentally submitted a CV to Avance this week. They called back and the conversation took twice as long as it should have as I had to ask for each sentence to be repeated, the rate was about £75-£100pd lower than it should've been for the role and the agent asked me...- Pyrrhula
- Post #87
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Accepting another contract due to delay
I don't see this as an issue. I waited for clearance for a contract once, turned up on day one to be told I couldn't come on site because of some admin issue. Agent told me that client still wanted me but didn't know how long it would be, even advised me to look for other contracts -they took...- Pyrrhula
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Fool roundup?
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passed the interview, got the contract, 5 weeks later still waiting for a start date
That's exactly what happened to me once. Did all the checks and passed, waited for start date, waited, waited, got new gig, same afternoon the original client asked me to start. I've since been told that the client is well known for securing finance after offering to contractors so I don't...- Pyrrhula
- Post #35
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Making the move
I have a similar skillset to OP in Finance in London. I would advise: Build that warchest ASAP and be honest about it, don't look at it and think I have six months if I cut back. You wont cut back because you will always hope that you will be in a new contract next week. If you need to wait...- Pyrrhula
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Contracting working hours: the norm
I had one contract pay hourly, it was brilliant for quiet days as you could bill your exact hours then go home. Also good when I worked long days but I was asked to keep those to a minimum as they had budgeted on day rate!- Pyrrhula
- Post #32
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Keep itching to get into Contracting
As people have already said, when talking about package £450 a day vs £70k then you would probably stay with the £70k. So it then depends on what you really want most from contracting, if it is liquid cash you want then you will have more each month on £450p.d but without any guarantees that it...- Pyrrhula
- Post #41
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Whats a sick day?
After 3 years of lurking this post finally made me register and comment! While working as a permie I had a contractor on my team who dragged himself in for a day with the flu (real thing, not man flu), one by one the rest of the team including me took ill and missed at least 5 days of work. I...
