Reply to: Do you write your salary/rate on your CV?

[Sergeant Apone]

I follow the old workman's adage: cash is tax free.

[ratewhore]

(unless there is cash involved and the only loser is the taxman).

Fuck him!!!!!!!!!

[DimPrawn]

I've yet to meet a lawyer or doctor or dentist or even plumber who's negotiable on rate.

If the jobs £2K it's £2K

(unless there is cash involved and the only loser is the taxman).

[Sergeant Apone]

It's quite simple. Tell them what you want and mean it, i.e. if they can't deliver the rate you require then you're not interested.

[ratewhore]

The real conversation:


Pimp - Whats your rate?

Contractor - £600/day

Pimp - You have to be kidding? The client might go to £400..

Contractor - £600/day.

Pimp - Next!

Job gone, to someone else...

When your backs up against the wall you do what you have to do. But for initial rate conversation with said pimp there is really no point in telling them your rate but you would accept 15% less. Thats 15% more margin in his pocket straight away...

[DimPrawn]

Good.

If the client is tight on money they can feck orf.

I'd rather lose 50% of the contracts and charge twice as much and have 6 months of leisure time.

Next.

[mcquiggd]

fucking hell, I can't believe this thread exists!!!

Pimp - Whats your rate?

Contractor - £600/day

Pimp - What's your minimum rate?

Contractor - £600/day.

Job done...

The real conversation:


Pimp - Whats your rate?

Contractor - £600/day

Pimp - You have to be kidding? The client might go to £400..

Contractor - £600/day.

Pimp - Next!

Job gone, to someone else...

[Zippy]

Pimp - What's your rate?

Contractor - £600/day

Pimp - What's your lowest rate?

Contractor - Do I look like a ******* arab at a souk?

C'mon Prawnie you've got to haggle - '£500/day - are you trying to ruin me?'

[Sockpuppet]

I would suggest that you send a covering page which shows your rate and expectations probably something like

Name : FRANCKO

Expectations : SHOW ME THE MONEY, SHOWWWWWW MEEEEEEE THE MONEYYYYYY. I LOVVVVVVEEEEEE BLAAAAAACKKKKKKK PEOOOOPPPPLLEEE

Present Salary : £600 p/d

Anyone else find that deeply disturbing that in your head we all shouted that like Jerrry?

[Sockpuppet]

Had a discussion with a pimp today (current one) who said I was selling myself short and I should ask for more money.

I'm still in shock.

[DimPrawn]

Pimp - What's your rate?

Contractor - £600/day

Pimp - What's your lowest rate?

Contractor - Do I look like a ******* arab at a souk?

[ratewhore]

fucking hell, I can't believe this thread exists!!!

Pimp - Whats your rate?

Contractor - £600/day

Pimp - What's your minimum rate?

Contractor - £600/day.

Job done...

[wendigo100]

Do you reckon it is a good idea to write your current salary/rate on your CV or it's just useless/negative?

Not a good idea - it's a stick to beat you with.

However, I disagree with milan here - whenever I talk to an agent about a job one of the first things I want to know is how much (ball-park will do) the pay is. I don't want to waste everyone's time discussing much else (and especially doing an interview) if that is a show-stopper.

Agent: "Great job, are you interested?"

Me: "How much does it pay?"

Agent: "12 pounds an hour."

Me: "That's crap, even milan earns more than that!"

Agent: "No he doesn't!"

Me: "OK but it's still crap. Not interested."

[milanbenes]

Frankco you little entrepeneur you, when you take new jobs you ask for an extra 5 to 7%

you'll be joining Britain's Rich List before you know it !!!

putting your salary or your rate on your cv is unprofessional

break out Frankco you can do it

Milan.

[tim123]

A pity that newbies don't know how to make a search and only find something that is completely unrelated..

Some of the 'old timers' don't either.

I tried ity once for a thread that I knew was there and it didn't find it.

Haven't used it since.

tim