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    #11
    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    NLUK, you put that better than I did - yes, experience counts for little in terms of the rate, but your experience of past contracts tells you how much you have got in the past.
    The OP is a permie. Therefore I'd say that experience will be a significant factor in what rate he might get. Contracting experience = 0 years often means lower rate.

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      #12
      Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
      The OP is a permie. Therefore I'd say that experience will be a significant factor in what rate he might get. Contracting experience = 0 years often means agent shafts you on your first gig.
      FTFY
      The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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        #13
        I do think contractor rates for PM is being driven down purely by the number of candidates out there....it's particularly bad for infrastructure....

        many permies are more then happy to take £300 a day and it's definitely dragging the rate down....

        now if you're a PM in niche areas such as financial regulatory projects, ERPs that has to be that particular favor and nothing else, etc....rates are much better....

        I wish I had gone into ERP years ago...they run for years and years and rates are pretty good....

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          #14
          Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
          FTFY
          Lol. Very true. Good FTFY that.
          'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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            #15
            Take the 400 look for a 500 role that's the beauty of being a contractor

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              #16
              My last contract - Deffo!

              I recently was looking for PM roles for nigh-on 6 months. Previously I was on £650 but I got increasingly price-elastic (or desparate, which ever way you look at it).

              I applied for roles going down to under £365. I went all the way to Lloyds in Glasgow (£364.50) after a successful telephone interview only to be mysteriously dumped when they saw me F2F.

              Curiously I subsequently reeled in a very pleasant £500 role in the City, up against 7 other people. That was however some 130 leads and 9 interviews.

              I truly don't know what is going on, but I would persuade you that a lot of what appears on eg Jobserve is dross. LBG are not going to get anyone by phone calls.They have to go out looking for the down-and-outs like me.

              If you keep plugging away you will get something matching your skills. It's however very tough at the moment.
              "Don't part with your illusions; when they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live" Mark Twain

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                #17
                Originally posted by Cirrus View Post
                mysteriously dumped when they saw me F2F.
                Is that because they won't take on people daft enough to travel to Glasgow for a rate like that?

                Or possibly.....



                That said looking like that you could have passed as a local.
                'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by Cirrus View Post

                  Curiously I subsequently reeled in a very pleasant £500 role in the City, up against 7 other people. That was however some 130 leads and 9 interviews.
                  You got 9 interviews on 130 leads with clientco or talks with agencies? If with clientco...wow wish had such a hit ratio.

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                    #19
                    As my FTFY alluded to, take the 400; consider it a "First Gig Agency Shaft Tax" and then don't discuss previous/current rates with your next gig's agent. Simply aim for 500.
                    The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
                      As my FTFY alluded to, take the 400; consider it a "First Gig Agency Shaft Tax" and then don't discuss previous/current rates with your next gig's agent. Simply aim for 500.
                      Yup.

                      Also, I don't get this idea that 0 years experience as a contractor is a negative, you either have x years experience in your chosen field\role or you don't.

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