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Financial services contracts: what’s involved in pre-employment screening?

Screening firm, Powerchex, on the information checks you and your company will be required to undergo - and how to prepare.

Hourly or daily rate? IT contractor guide to pay

Explained - the staple payment terms of freelancing, attached to your next IT contract, by Outsource UK

The 'Three Rs' of IT Contracting: Resisting Rate Reduction

Does the economic climate mean that contractors have no option but to take reduced rates on the chin, or are there measures that can be taken in self-defence?

Switching Codes: How to move from a permanent to a contract role

Why the way you handle jumping from permie to contractor defines your whole experience of contracting.

Switching Codes: How to move from a permanent to a contract role, part two

The technical and administrative decisions you'll need to make, and why you need more than shiny shoes on your first day.

How IT contractors go from public to private

Not having truly transferable skills isn't stopping contractors trying to switch sector.

IT contractor guide to 'going direct'

Veterans aren't the only IT contractors who should be ready to go direct.

Getting an IT contract in a recession

The IT Coach sharpens your CV and offers guidance on agent-relationship building.

Winning business: Contract hunting, no stone unturned – A contractor's view

How to get your CV to the top of the agency's pile and other top tips.

Winning business: Know your strengths – A contractor's view

By understanding how to fit your skills to your client's advertised needs, you CV can present you as the perfect solution.

A motivational look at contracting - Part 1

In this two-part article, the IT Coach explores the drives that apparently get us out of bed in the morning.

A motivational look at contracting - Part 2

The IT Coach looks at how to make contracting more enjoyable.

How to punch above your rate

You will not maximise contract rates by smiling meekly and taking whatever the agent offers, but by negotiating for the best deal available.

Intra-Company Transfers & Work Permit updates

MPs’ concern over lax controls on IT migrants

Intra company transfers, and their impact on the IT sector, to stay until at least 2013.

Intra-company transfer pay rules ‘already being abused’

Employers are already taking steps to deny UK IT contractors a level playing field.

Contractor group backs wage cap on ICT work permits

‘Huge step forward’ for UK contractors on the back foot from intra-company transfer staff.

ICT visas may need another look - immigration chief

State advisor signals immigration rules may need tightening again to protect British IT contractors.

IT is lead user of migrant work permits

Employers import non-EU IT workers at twice the rate of any other industry.

Work permit rule to protect IT contractors

Government closes a loophole to stop UK IT contractors being displaced.

Visa rules being abused to bring in offshore IT staff, investigation claims

A BBC Radio 4 investigation claims IT companies are bending visa rules to undercut UK contractors.

Jobs News

SAP to recruit techies with autism

Software giant will spend years hiring those who ‘think differently’ about IT.

May 24, 2013
Tax centres hit by 'large scale disruption'

Walkout at HMRC offices applauded for coinciding with RTI’s introduction.

Apr 9, 2013
IT departments' job cuts 'coming to a close'

Number of IT directors planning to shed staff falls to its lowest level in five years.

Mar 12, 2013
EU takes on the growing number of unfilled IT jobs

Digital agenda boss readies a €4.5m shot in the arm for the skills-starved IT industry.

Mar 7, 2013
Techies face a longer haul to secure IT jobs

Eight weeks of searching & eight hours’ talking (plus a possible test) required of IT candidates.

Feb 28, 2013
Whiting accepts Revenue role

Tax institute's loss seen as HMRC's gain.

Jan 18, 2013
'Muted' IT pay growth across the pond in 2013

UK IT contractors not alone in being warned of only scant increases in pay and prospects.

Jan 8, 2013
A year of IT contractor pay: 2012 in review

The current market for IT talent; where the money will be and where it's dried up.

Dec 21, 2012
IT consultant reveals his life as an Iraqi hostage

Peter Moore says ask me anything, as he recalls his 946 days held at gunpoint.

Oct 30, 2012
'Jobs go to people, not their skills or experience'

Personality is often the key to unlocking your next contract – IT staffing boss.

Oct 15, 2012

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Further Reading

Contractors’ Questions: How to break into the private sector?

Recruiter helps an ex-public sector worker looking for his first commercial contract.

Contractors’ Questions: Can my signed contract rate be reduced?

Solicitor helps an IT contractor told to reduce his rate five weeks in owing to agent error.

Contractors' Questions: Am I entitled to a rate rise?

Legal aid for a contractor whose negotiated rate doesn't reflect the seniority of her work.

Contractors' Questions: Is a permie job a shoo-in?

IT freelancers may receive a cautious response for changing tack.

Contractors' Questions: Which are the steadiest IT contracts?

Sign of the times, as one contractor seeks consistency before pay.

Contractors' Questions: When do I ask for a rate rise?

Agent asked whether there's a right time to renegotiate.

Contractors' Questions: Verbal extension retracted - do I have any rights?

Roger Sinclair offers advice to an IT contractor denied an extension to their contract at the last minute.

Seeking legal remedy for bad references?

Can the law help when previous clients write terrible things about you?

Win contracts by asking questions

Discover who makes the decision to take on a contractor, and do better at interview.

Only attractive contractors go direct

Practicality and law mean end clients prefer agents.

Contractors' Questions: Agency ripped me off, where do I stand?

Legal expert, John Antell, replies to a contractor 'ripped off' by an agent, who convinced him to accept a lower rate, and then took over 50%.

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Contractors' Questions: How to switch sectors for project management?

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