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Originally posted by flipFlop View PostI would frame the question differently, based on her plenitude of posts: how does northernladuk manage her own contract "career"?
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Originally posted by MyUserName View PostTell them it depends on the exact location and specifics of the contract (technologies, conditions etc.) and bounce it back to them by asking what range they are offering.
I try my up most not to even mention rate till post interview.
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Originally posted by vwdan View PostYeah, but surely it's patently obvious whether you were operating in a senior capacity from the type of work you're doing. In other words, if you have a string of "consult, design and build" roles and then wind up in a support role, that's going to give the wrong message.
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Originally posted by PerfectStorm View PostSurely you have to tell them at some point?
It's what they do to me reference their rate so it's only right and proper to do the same back to them.
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Originally posted by vwdan View PostYeah, but surely it's patently obvious whether you were operating in a senior capacity from the type of work you're doing. In other words, if you have a string of "consult, design and build" roles and then wind up in a support role, that's going to give the wrong message.
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostTitles are meaningless so make all of them more generic - one company's "senior" is another company's bog standard level. I actually got asked once, when I was permie, why I was senior in one company but not in another when I was doing nearly the same thing. So after talking to a few people on both sides of recruitment I made more of my job titles generic. This also got rid of some of the weird job titles I had been given.
However the thing you can't lie about is technologies. I've been at client's seen candidates getting busted at interviews due to stating a company used a load of technologies. Someone who had worked a the same place at the same time stated in no way, shape or form had they.
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Originally posted by BolshieBastard View PostLondon rates are generally already a lot higher than for similar roles elsewhere in the country.
In any event £200 a week is only £40 a day. You'd be better upping your rate by that 40 quid a day for all applications but that's just how Id look at it.
If the local market would pay that additional £100 a day, then that's where I would pitch the rate. However, it doesn't.
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I dunno, some people seem to be able to get away with some truly amazing things if only for a short while... a certain company I have worked with hired someone for a Linux role who had zero knowledge of Linux. How that got missed on the interviews I'll never know!
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Originally posted by vwdan View PostI know it's good fun to pretend that everyone on this board is rubbish at everything, but it'd take some seriously creative writing to positively explain moving from a senior consultant position to a mediocre support position....
However the thing you can't lie about is technologies. I've been at client's seen candidates getting busted at interviews due to stating a company used a load of technologies. Someone who had worked a the same place at the same time stated in no way, shape or form had they.
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