Best advice for securing new contract

[ckms]

Thanks all. When I say 'employment' you know what I mean. I am self employed but in an ideal world I want to work 10 or 11 months of the year

[tractor]

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Linked In is great for managing real contacts and keeping in touch with them. It's also great as a showpiece if you can get decent recommendations, once you get some interest, point the client to your profile, also have a link to the profile in your email sigs etc. As a marketing tool it's next to useless.

Search the job boards, I find JS still works best for me. Research the skills and market exposure that people are hiring. Tailor your applications where possible to highlight where your experience matches.

As for continuous 'employment' as a contractor, forget it. You may be lucky, you may not. A quick trawl around these fora will tell you what the chances of that are.

[northernladuk]

Hi. I am a freelance marketing contractor. I'm signed up to lots of recruitment sites & ive optimised my linkedin page accordingly. When I was perm I was getting masses of calls from agents who'd seen my cv on line but in my new guise these are few & far between. What's the best ways to get noticed as a contractor to maximise the chance of continuous employment? Thanks

Really??!? Employment?

[TheFaQQer]

Sorry but I always found LI to be wank. Just lots of agents wanting to link to get in yer knickers and see your contacts at places you'd worked.

You got to play the percentages. Lots of applications and lots of calls to agents. Just like any other business has to do.

LinkedIn got me my current contract - two years into it now. But that was via a genuine contact (albeit one I'd not spoken to in ten years) rather than an agent getting in touch.

[malvolio]

Sorry but I always found LI to be wank. Just lots of agents wanting to link to get in yer knickers and see your contacts at places you'd worked.

You got to play the percentages. Lots of applications and lots of calls to agents. Just like any other business has to do.

Hmmm...

[wattaj]

Sorry but I always found LI to be wank. Just lots of agents wanting to link to get in yer knickers and see your contacts at places you'd worked.

You got to play the percentages. Lots of applications and lots of calls to agents. Just like any other business has to do.

+1 with the proviso that, vis-a-vis LinkedIn, that every little helps.

[BolshieBastard]

Hi. I am a freelance marketing contractor. I'm signed up to lots of recruitment sites & ive optimised my linkedin page accordingly. When I was perm I was getting masses of calls from agents who'd seen my cv on line but in my new guise these are few & far between. What's the best ways to get noticed as a contractor to maximise the chance of continuous employment? Thanks

Sorry but I always found LI to be wank. Just lots of agents wanting to link to get in yer knickers and see your contacts at places you'd worked.

You got to play the percentages. Lots of applications and lots of calls to agents. Just like any other business has to do.

[flipFlop]

...What's the best ways to get noticed as a contractor to maximise the chance of continuous employment?...

Noticed by whom, exactly? You should specify this if you want a response.

[malvolio]

I find it slightly amusing that a freelance marketer is asking about marketing....

Anyway, that apart, it's probably because as a permie you were getting the halo effect of your employer and now you are a one man band with no history. As a freelance, as opposed to a permie, what we sell is experience, not expertise which is taken for granted. Getting the first one is hard, the second harder, after that you're either cooking or out of the game.

[ckms]

Hi. I am a freelance marketing contractor. I'm signed up to lots of recruitment sites & ive optimised my linkedin page accordingly. When I was perm I was getting masses of calls from agents who'd seen my cv on line but in my new guise these are few & far between. What's the best ways to get noticed as a contractor to maximise the chance of continuous employment? Thanks