[BNM] finding work and london Based IT consultants.

[Chris Billett]

Please do listen to the negativity. This list is about sharing  
experience, not hiding facts... and it was also Computer People that I  
was with. Sorry, I wasn't going to mention that, but... I'm sure  
they've changed recently. At that time, they wouldn't declare their  
margins because they didn't want to negotiate them (2005/6) - but a  
letter with my rates was mistakenly delivered to me instead of my boss  
after a year and a half. Fortunately my client paid the release fee  
for me to freelance directly when I said I wouldn't go through them,  
and I've not looked back since.

It wasn't you of course, so don't take this as a personal attack. In  
fact, my agent has left the company and set up his own. So I recommend  
not going with his! But seriously... I don't know a whole lot of  
people who talk positively about their agents/agencies, and I know a  
whole lot of freelancers who don't use them and are very happy about it.

On 16 Jan 2009, at 16:00, Standen, Mark wrote:

> Don't listen to the negativity - everyone needs to earn a living - we
> have master vendor agreements with the biggest names in the UK and
> typically work to a fixed and open margin per deal with our clients -
> Agreements with our clients are agreed and the contract with you
> is/would be adventagous to all.....
>
>
>
>
> Mark Standen
> Principal Consultant
> Computer People
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> services
> and speciality staffing.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Chris  
> Billett
> Sent: 16 January 2009 15:54
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] finding work and london Based IT consultants.
>
> I've never met a recruitment consultant in London that was decent. I'm
> seriously not joking. The 'friendly' ones that I first went with were
> taking more than 40% of my salary and didn't return my calls unless I
> was within a week of ending a contract... and they're one of the
> recruitment companies with better reputations.
>
> For the last three years I've spent the money I would have lost with
> them networking instead. It's paid off far more. Make some business
> cards!
>
> CB
>
> On 16 Jan 2009, at 15:49, andrew holway wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have been consulting in the HPC cluster world for nearly 2 years  
>> and
>
>> have learnt a lot about moving, storing and computing stupid volumes
>> of data. I'm looking to expand my client base but as I'm  
>> contractually
>
>> obliged to stay away from supercomputing so I want to find commercial
>> clients.
>>
>> Any ideas? Anyone know any decent recruitment consultants? I'm
>> basically a hardware and linux architect.
>>
>> I live in london (3 weeks and still surviving)
>>
>> Ta
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
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