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Skills not important, says MD of PM3

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    Skills not important, says MD of PM3

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    “Contractors have to accept that rate is our primary weapon in the bad times,” said Mr Pragnell, who is the managing director of PM3, an IT project manager supplier.

    “Domain experience is extremely important, qualifications add a little weight but ultimately the first criterion clients are judging CVs by right now, is rate.
    Ability obviously comes a poor fourth.
    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
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    Ability obviously comes a poor fourth.
    Nah. Ability comes with practice: six months AFTER you get the gig!
    My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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      #3
      So changes to the terms and conditions can be forced through in the bad times, but it is these guys who cry foul when contractors move to better paying roles in the good times. What goes around comes around I guess.
      Rule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.

      I preferred version 1!

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