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| Author: | JohnSheridan [ Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | IT Work - going alone |
After another stressful day I'm seriously thinking of working for myself doing IT. Does anyone here have their own IT company? If so how did you find your customer base? |
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| Author: | AlunD [ Thu Apr 26, 2012 6:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IT Work - going alone |
Yes I do. In the early days it was local advertising and I built up a small customer base, but to be honest I then moved into contracting so my company exists but doesn't really count. |
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| Author: | oceanicitl [ Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IT Work - going alone |
I had a few customers through word of mouth from people I worked with but then I also moved to contracting. After I while it wasn't worth keeping my company open so I started using an umbrella company. |
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| Author: | bobbdobbs [ Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:51 am ] | |||||||||
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Must be raking in the profits with the current weather 
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| Author: | oceanicitl [ Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:57 am ] | |||||||||
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"An umbrella company is a company that acts as an employer to agency contractors who work under a fixed term contract assignment" |
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| Author: | bobbdobbs [ Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:15 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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I know 
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| Author: | JohnSheridan [ Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IT Work - going alone |
AlanD & oceanicitl - thanks for your replies  How did you get into contracting? Where do you find out who wants a contractor? |
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| Author: | oceanicitl [ Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:04 pm ] | |||||||||
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I'm quite well known in the mac world now because I got my CV out to as many IT agencies as possible. When I was looking for work I'd go through jobs on www.jobserve.com every evening and email my CV to as many agencies as possible (even if the role wasn't specifically what I was looking for). I'd save a standard email promoting my skills & availability and just copy it to new email and attach the CV. If anyone was interested they would usually call me back in the morning. I got permanent and contract jobs that way and I'm still approached by agencies now and I've been working at my current place for 5 years. I would say make sure your technical skill set is listed at the top of your CV. Keep job descriptions to the point and don't go over 2 pages. Linkedin.com is also used a lot now and I've seen agencies and people promoting jobs. I've even got people from agencies as my contacts as you never know when they might come in useful. |
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| Author: | AlunD [ Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IT Work - going alone |
What Caroline said basically. If you pm me an email address I'll send you a spreadsheet of ( mostly active ) agency email addresses. Also upload your CV to jobserve and let agencies grab it. |
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| Author: | JohnSheridan [ Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IT Work - going alone |
Thanks having a look at Jobserve website now Another stressful day - this time with Blackberries - they ALL seem to have stopped sending / receiving emails today around lunchtime. Usual finger pointing by blackberry and network provider (O2) but still no working email 
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| Author: | saspro [ Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:01 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: IT Work - going alone | |||||||||
Let me know if you want me to debug this for you |
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| Author: | JohnSheridan [ Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IT Work - going alone |
Not quite so stressful today - just loads of cables everywhere in the server room - we are having 24 new network points put in on Saturday so there's my weekend gone  Saspro came up trumps though for fixing our Blackberry problem  - now all I have to do is persuade my bosses to ditch them and get something else - preferably Samsung Galaxy WPS> Saspro - I'll look for some chocolate samples tomorrow for you. 
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| Author: | oceanicitl [ Tue May 01, 2012 10:27 am ] | |||||||||
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iPhone FTW! |
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| Author: | JohnSheridan [ Tue May 01, 2012 8:00 pm ] | |||||||||
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Looked at them but rejected them due to battery life 
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