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The reason agents don’t want to pay contractors market rate
Reasons why your agent would rather lower your rate than increase it.
�erpay you in the future. That’s the nature of the contracting business. Contractors should be aware that maximi� �will almost always use recruitment agents to find contracts. There are many advantages to using recruitment a� �no interest in trying to obtain the best possible contract rate for you at all. Furthermore, they have no in�

Category: Articles: Contracting | Wed, 23 Aug 2006


Keeping your skills updated
To get the top contract rates you need to have the latest skills in demand. This article explains how to stay on top.
�have crossed to the other side. Some are put off contracting because they believe that once they do, their ski� �ars: If you don’t have the skill you cannot get a contract, but if you can’t get a contract then you cannot�

Category: Articles: Contracting | Mon, 09 Apr 2007


Are contractors being exploited by agents
Some contractors think that agents continually exploit them whilst knowing nothing about the industry. We explain why this is not the case.
�y way to ensure success. We see this occur in the contract market time and time again when the best person f�

Category: Articles: Contracting | Wed, 18 Apr 2007


Contracting – taking holidays and time off
Aspects to consider regarding holidays and time off when contracting.
�Introduction When you are contracting you will want to take holidays. This article disc� �ractual issues The timing of holidays around your contracts Can Contractors Take Holidays? As a contractor, y� �you will be required to work every day during the contract period, unless the contract length is less than o�

Category: Articles: Contracting | Fri, 01 Jun 2007


The contracting seasons
Like the best farmers, the best contractors know when to sow and when to reap, and when to stay indoors.
�f the seasons and rhythms of the contract market. Contracting Seasons Spring – after winter, the market starts� �mber. Oct/Nov – another summer brings better paid contracts. Another very good time to be on the market. Dec� �w and when to reap, and when to stay indoors. The contract market has its own rhythms. A farmer knows when t�

Category: Articles: Contracting | Fri, 20 Jun 2008


Contractors choose contracting for more than just the tax breaks
After 20 years of intense tax legislation maybe it is time to give contractors a break. Most are not in it for the tax benefits.
�The UK’s contracting sector has now faced 20 years of being in the spo�

Category: News | Thu, 04 Sept 2008


When an agent can be a contractor’s guardian angel
Ashley Cooper of agency Parc Ellis tells ContractorCalculator how they’ve been guardian angel to a contractor who faced being unpaid and out of work.
�The contracting sector is sharing the pain being suffered by the� �of good contractors ready to take up all the new contracts.” Playing the long game “Most contracts we are wo� �scenes. Easing contractor cash flow “We’ve had a contract running with a client since the new year, and pay�

Category: News | Wed, 01 Jul 2009


Contractors see public sector contracts vanish as first government cuts are announced
The Treasury’s announcement of projects to be suspended and cancelled has removed many valuable contract opportunities.
�or the North East (£450m), meaning that lucrative contracts for contractors across most sectors will now not� �anny Alexander, have put swift end to many future contract opportunities. IT, construction and engineering c�

Category: News | Thu, 17 Jun 2010


Contracting issues are a global challenge, shows PCG Round Table Event
International speakers at a PCG Round Table Event reveal that challenges facing UK contractors are shared worldwide, reports ContractorCalculator.
�eek and attended by key speakers, politicians and contracting sector stakeholders, including ContractorCalculat�

Category: News | Wed, 14 Jul 2010


Keeping your contracting skills updated
Contractors can keep their contracting skills updated by applying new techniques on existing contracts & increasing their value to potential clients.
�Contractors can keep their contracting skills updated by investing in training and apply� �pplying the new techniques they learn on existing contracts. This will increase a contractor’s ‘marketability� �d research, is to gain a new skill on an existing contract, usually by convincing an existing client to tria�

Category: Articles: Contracting | Mon, 30 May 2011


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