Hi all - my first post, so be gentle!
For the past 8 months I've been contracting for £475/day. Always a 2-month contract period, but extended 3 times.
Now I'm looking for the next thing, and an agent has just called with a 6-month "fixed-term" contract for a large ISP offering £42k pro-rata. When I said that this seemed to be considerably less than I was earning, the agent said "This is a fixed term contract and thus cannot be compared to a regular contract payable on a daily rate".
Which sounds like rubbish to me. Now you lot probably hold the same opinion of recruitment agents that I do, but that aside, are there any circumstances under which he could be right? I've read the arguments about 'contract hourly rate = permie salary in thousands', but even if that's true (hmmm...), I don't see that I'd accrue any useful benefits within 6 months!
What do you think? Has anyone been in this position?
Cheers,
tamper
For the past 8 months I've been contracting for £475/day. Always a 2-month contract period, but extended 3 times.
Now I'm looking for the next thing, and an agent has just called with a 6-month "fixed-term" contract for a large ISP offering £42k pro-rata. When I said that this seemed to be considerably less than I was earning, the agent said "This is a fixed term contract and thus cannot be compared to a regular contract payable on a daily rate".
Which sounds like rubbish to me. Now you lot probably hold the same opinion of recruitment agents that I do, but that aside, are there any circumstances under which he could be right? I've read the arguments about 'contract hourly rate = permie salary in thousands', but even if that's true (hmmm...), I don't see that I'd accrue any useful benefits within 6 months!
What do you think? Has anyone been in this position?
Cheers,
tamper
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