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Contract Employee's Newsletter
Helping Contract Professionals
Manage Their Careers
Vol. 4, No. 04
December 15, 2004
Edited by James R. Ziegler
A Companion to:
The Contract
Employee's Handbook
www.cehandbook.com
Sponsored by:
P.A.C.E. - Professional
Association for Contract Employment
www.pacepros.com
About The Contract Employee's Newsletter
The Contract Employee's Newsletter is a free online publication
for technical and professional contractors containing news, commentary,
tips, links to useful resources, nuggets of wisdom submitted by
readers, and anything else that seems appropriate at the time. The
CENewsletter is published intermittently, whenever circumstances
warrant and time allows. Back issues are archived online, and content
is eventually rolled into the Contract Employee's Handbook. The
subscriber list is confidential and will not be disclosed outside
this organization.
In This Issue
Read recent
issues of The Contract Employee's Newsletter.
Kudos and Testimonials
What People Are Saying About The Contract Employee's
Project
[Editor's Note: The following is extracted from an e-mail
sent to us by a former "P.A.C.E. Cadet" who has recently
returned to P.A.C.E. after an "emergency" stint as a regular
employee during the economic downturn.]
P.A.C.E. is wonderful.
Like Uncle Sam should be. Never bothers you, but are there
when you need even years later. :)
Besides that, could not be friendlier or more helpful.
-- Frank G.
Welcome back to the fold, Frank. It's great to be working with
you again!
-- JRZ
And another nice word:
Just finished reading the article on reputation. [Vol.
4, No. 3]
The quote by Abbot really brought the article into focus.
The glossary was also very helpful.
Good job!
I was very pleased and will be passing along the newsletter
to some of my colleagues.
Please keep up the good work.
-- Markus J.
Thank you, Markus. First for the kind words, and also for helping
us spread the word about P.A.C.E. to Contract Professionals and
the companies that use their consulting services.
-- JRZ
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From The Trenches
Keeping Ahead of the Curve with SEO
Andreas Ramos (See bio in Ask Dungaree Dan,
below) suggests that contractors with appropriate transferable skills
should look into search engine optimization / pay-per-click (SEO/PPC)
work. Namely, managing Google Adwords accounts for clients. Google
Adwords is growing extremely fast into a major service, and there
are companies that currently spend $2-3 million per month alone
on Adwords.
Andreas founded www.Adwords-User-Group.com
a few weeks ago. Members of the user group represent over $750,000
in Google's revenues. They will use the user group, among other
things, to get better tools from Google. Visit the user group; there
are job postings, and other good information. Join the Adwords User
Group and rub shoulders with those who are already working in the
trenches on Search Engine Optimization .
Management of e-commerce Web sites could be a natural extension
for out of work content developers (technical writers, marketing
communications (A.K.A. marcom) writers, etc.) and project managers.
In this issue of the Contract Employee's Newsletter I review the
new book on Search Engine Optimization by Andreas Ramos and Stephanie
Cota: Insider's Guide To SEO: How to Get
Your Website to the Top of the Search Engines.
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Business Basics
How All-encompassing and Human-Asset-Team-enabling
Are Your Enterprise-leveraged Corpspeak Competencies Going Forward?
Of course, no respectable Contract Professional would
be caught dead uttering a single syllable of corpspeak. Nevertheless,
it is vital to your consulting success that you understand the many
corporate directives, memoranda of understanding, mission statements,
statements of objectives, scopes and requirements, and other mission
critical communications issued by the corporate executives and their
minions in prairie-dog land who speak and write exclusively in corpspeak.
Here are some resources to build your fluency in corpspeak.
I used a list of "fashionable buzzwords"
that I found on the Web at http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/writsamp0.htm
to "craft" this example of Corpspeak.
Going forward, the enterprise will empower its human assets with
specific competencies designed to maximize team ownership of the
interactive validation process in order to leverage new paradigms
of internal customer satisfaction, while continually focusing
on those variable system parameters that promote the multifaceted
assessment of critical interpersonal values in an environment
that supports clearly enunciated and concise strategic directives.
Sounds so very familiar, doesn't it? Makes you
wonder what it means. Visit the Web page for more examples.
Here are some more fun sites:
LavaRnd Corpspeak Memo Generator
And, while we're having fun, here's a link to the fun LavaRnd Corpspeak
Memo Generator:
http://www.lavarnd.org/cgi-bin/corpspeak.cgi.
Attach a corpspeak memo to your weekly status reports.
Impress your project manager with your erudition.
The Official SGI Corporate Press
Release Generator
Those of you charged with issuing press releases will appreciate
The Official SGI Corporate Press Release Generator at:
http://www.lurkertech.com/chris/corpspeak.html.
Just hit the refresh button repeatedly to create any
number of unique press releases, each written in impecable corpspeak.
Send them to your clients, and just wait for your phone to ring
off its belt holster..., and wait, and wait...
How to Talk Like a Big Shot
Fun two-minute audio at:
http://blogs.bnet.com/index.php?p=52.
Web Economy Bullshit (Corpspeak)
Generator
http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html.
This one generates snippets of corpspeak suitable for inclusion
in almost any corporate document. Or, create your own using the
convenient lists of verbs, adjectives and nouns.
Corpspeak Lexicon
http://www.jaked.org/corpspeak.html.
The author of this comprehensive dictionary of business jargon has
culled industry- and job-related words and phrases from the mouths
and email messages of his coworkers. [Note: There will be a pop
quiz on the words beginning with A - D.]
On a More Serious Note...
Andreas Ramos (see Ask Dungaree Dan, below, and From the
Trenches, above) brought this New
York Times article to my attention in his Google Groups SVWeb
e-mail discussion group, SV-Web@googlegroups.com.
Those of you with above average literacy might want to consider
a career as a contract writing coach.
For many supposedly well-educated adults in corporate
America, corpspeak is obviously a ruse to mask their appalling functional
illiteracy and lack of substance.
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Ask Dungaree Dan
How to Beat a Recruiter's Lowball Offer
[Note from Dungaree Dan: The following
Q & A exchange is from Andreas Ramos' SV-Web online discussion
group.]
Q: Dear
Andreas -- I got an email from a recruiter for a staff job
in (...) for a major company doing (...). Maybe I'll talk to him
Monday. He set a limit on salary early on. Good trick: like, they
won't even talk to you unless your salary is "under" XXX..
-- Signed: Twisted Knickers in Knoxville
A: Dear
Twisted -- A number of recruiters are total scoundrels with
this trick. They get the client to agree to, say, $100/hr, and then
the recruiter finds the CHEAPEST worker (not the best, but the cheapest)
to fill the position. Thus, the recruiter gets max profits.
Who gets screwed? Both the client and the worker. The client didn't
get the best; the worker got a low rate. That's why this is deeply
unethical: both the client and the worker are harmed.
How to deal with this? Just agree to the recruiter's ridiculously
low rate. "I'd LOVE to work for $2.21/hr!" Go to the interview.
Be sure to get the manager's business card. When the manager offers
you the job, you go back to the recruiter and say "You didn't
tell me it involved Gizmo++, so my rate is now $XX higher."
The recruiter will scream bloody murder, but he must pay you, because
the client has selected you.
If the recruiters refuse to hire you, call the manager and tell
him what happened.
yrs,
Andreas
-- Standing in for: Dungaree Dan
Bio of Andreas Ramos: Andreas has worked
for more than twenty-five Silicon Valley companies, including SUN
Microsystems, SGI, Brio, and Dialpad.com, and is an advisor to Silicon
Valley universities. He wrote one of the first books on web design
and has managed e-commerce sites for years. He was the webmaster
for a company that grew at over one million users per month for
more than a year. Andreas is an active member of the National Writers
Union, www.nwu.org,
a technical writer, and Silicon Valley guru on blogs, e-commerce,
and search engine optimization (SEO). Andreas, along with his business
partner Stephanie Cota, has recently published the very useful and
informative book, Insider's Guide to SEO: How to get your website
to the top of the search engines, www.creativeconsultantsgroup.com. Andreas has
a masters degree from the University of Heidelberg in Germany and
speaks four languages fluently. He's also pretty fluent in Geek.
Andreas lives in Palo Alto with his cat. Visit him at www.andreas.com.
Questions for Dungaree Dan
Send your questions about contract employment to Ask
Dungaree Dan. We will try to answer all of your questions, and
we will publish the most interesting ones in The Contract Employee's
Newsletter.
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Resources
A Nifty Little Book On Search Engine Optimization
Title: Insider's Guide To
SEO: How to Get Your Website to the Top of the Search Engines
Authors: Andreas Ramos, Stephanie Cota
Pub. Date: 2004
Format: Paperback, 100 pp., index
Publisher: Jain Publishing
ISBN: 0-87573-051-5
At this point, I suppose I should thank Andreas Ramos for helping
me write this issue of the Contract Employee's Newsletter; he seems
to pop up just about everywhere.
Andreas is a good person to know; not only because he is such a
valuable resource, but because he is so very hard working and generous
with his skills and knowledge, and completely "down-to-earth,"
approachable, and practical.
This
little book is typical of Andreas' approach. At 100 pages and
change, the book is no bigger than it needs to be, yet it covers
probably 80% or more of the practical knowledge and terminology
that the owner of a Web site must understand before attempting to
optimize their Web pages for the search engines. In this case, the
target search engine is Google, although the basic principles of
SEO are universal.
Search engine optimization is the art (and science) of coding Web
pages so they appear higher in the rankings delivered by search
engines. Search engines constantly change the criteria they use
to evaluate Web pages, so employing the latest “tricks of the
trade” can be like shooting at a moving target. The authors
discuss "technical SEO" and "pay-per-click SEO"
in detail, and explain that such approaches, while effective, are
at best short-term tactical methods requiring constant monitoring
and management.
The authors remind us that when someone asks the pros at Google
"How should I SEO my website?" The reply is invariably
"Write good content." Good content, the authors advise,
is the ultimate strategic approach to getting your Web site
listed in the search engines. Ironically, the chapter on content-based
SEO, at four pages, is the shortest in the book. And that's as long
as it needs to be.
Contract Professionals and owners of small businesses who are serious
about attracting customers and clients MUST have a professional
Web site; one that differentiates their offerings from the competition;
one that establishes them as leaders in their field. The best way
to do this is to become a destination site for people seeking information.
As the authors point out, 85% of searches are for information.
Write or add articles to your site that are related to your skill
sets and professional offerings. Salt your content with relevant
keywords. Include case histories, success stories, and practical
advice. Get other sites to link to your site, and link your site
to other valuable resources. If your site contains useful information,
other sites will link to it, and the search engines will place your
site in a relevant information cluster (very good ju ju!), which
will give your keywords more weight in keyword searches.
A technique that I highly recommend, though not mentioned specifically
in the book, it to make a search using keywords that describe your
skill set. Now, study the sites that appear high in the list of
returns. What do they do that you can do as well or better in order
to place your site high in the rankings? This book, Insiders
Guide To SEO, will tell you what to look for.
Purchase the Book:
Buy Insider's Guide to SEO at Barnes and Noble, www.bn.com.
Enter the title in the search window.
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Contract Employee's
Glossary
Terminology For Contract Professionals
More terms from Appendix
B: Glossary of Terms for Contract Professionals of The
Contract Employee's Handbook. These terms are from the greatly
expanded new glossary that is currently in development (not yet
available online).
Given the general thrust of this issue of the Contract Employee's
Newsletter, I have chosen to include a few definitions related to
search engine optimization and corpspeak.
Boolean search
Context: Tools and Infrastructure
An advanced search method that lets a user refine his or her search
by specifying the relationships between keywords and phrases in
an electronic search by using logical expressions (called Boolean
operators), such as: and, or, not, +, -, “ ”. This is
a common advanced search feature of Internet search engines because
it has the ability to specify desired results very precisely. The
Boolean search method is named after George Boole, a 19th century
mathematician who developed theories for working with sets of information.
Most of the major search engines allow Boolean searches, and many
provide online tutorials on the subject.
Candidate management system
Context: Staffing
Candidate management system is synonymous with applicant
tracking system, commonly referred to as an ATS. An ATS is any system,
whether manual or automated, that manages an organization’s
job postings and candidate information (i.e., resumes and applications)
in order to efficiently match prospective candidates with open positions.
Most automated applicant tracking systems are able to post job openings
on the organization’s online career pages, and distribute job
orders to online job boards and third-party recruiting firms external
to the organization. They can also manage the receipt of resumes,
scan resumes as they arrive, extract keywords and applicant contact
information, load the data into the system’s database, screen
and rank applicants, and generate e-mail interview requests to the
highest ranking applicants. Other features may include the tracking
of individual applicants and job orders, the creation of customized
input forms and pre-screening questions, track responses, and handle
multiple languages. Approximately one-half of all mid-sized organizations
and almost all large organizations use some type of automated ATS.
Corpspeak
Context: Business Practices
A euphemism for corporate bullshit. Cheesy, self-important, platitudinous,
bloated, impressive-sounding, often meaningless, spoken and written
language, which perversely infuses company meetings, corporate directives,
mission statements, annual reports, memos, e-mails, sales literature,
press releases, memoranda of understanding, statements of work,
objectives, scopes, requirements, and other mission critical communications
issued by corporate executives and their minions in prairie-dog
land who speak and write exclusively in corpspeak.
Corpspeak functions primarily to mask the perpetrator's appalling
functional illiteracy and lack of substance. Listening to a conversation
in corpspeak is like overhearing two bystanders at a parade describing
the emperor’s new clothes.
Emoticon
Context: Tools and Infrastructure
Short for emotion icon. Emoticons are little “sideways”
faces made out of keyboard characters, used in e-mail messages and
online discussion groups to communicate non-verbal cues that are
not apparent in the text. Examples are: smile :-) wink ;-) and surprise
:-0 . Enter the keywords “emoticon list” to uncover Web
sites listing literally hundreds of clever emoticons. Recently,
especially with the rise of instant messaging, graphical and animated
emoticons have come into use. Search the Web for “animated
emoticons” to identify Web sites where you can download cute,
animated emoticons.
It is recommended that Contract Professionals avoid the use of
emoticons in formal business communications.
Keyword
Context: Tools and Infrastructure
- An important or memorable word or phrase in the title, abstract,
subject heading, or text of a document (e.g., an html page, resume,
report, etc.) which characterizes the content of the document.
- An entry in an electronic database, document management system,
online directory, or search engine, which can be used as a search
term during a keyword search to retrieve records that contain
one or more of the entered keywords.
- A word or phrase used to target advertising. Online advertisers
can purchase keywords on certain search engines to guarantee that
their website information is displayed prominently, and/or to
display an associated creative piece such as a logo or banner.
- Any term in a resume or skills profile that a resume management
system may search for in matching a job description to a list
of candidates.
Keyword search
Context: Tools and Infrastructure
A popular search method, in which search terms (keywords) are entered
into the text box (search window) of a database, document management
system, or search engine to retrieve records that contain one or
more of the entered keywords. For example, a keyword search in Google,
www.google.com,
using the keywords, contract employees, returns a
list of several million results, of which the Web sites for
The Contract Employee’s Handbook, www.cehandbook.com,
and The Professional Association for Contract Employment, www.pacepros.com,
are at, or very near, the top of the list. Try it in your browser.
It's fun.
Search engine
Context: Tools and Infrastructure
A program that searches documents for specified keywords, and returns
a list of documents or Web pages that contain one or more of the
entered keywords. Document management systems use search engines
to locate archived documents, and individual Web sites may employ
a search engine so that users can readily locate content within
the site’s local Web pages. Internet-based search engines consist
of a server or collection of servers (e.g., a server farm) that
sends out special queries, variously called robots, bots, or spiders,
to index the content of Web pages. When a user enters a string of
keywords, the servers compare the keywords with stored, indexed
results, and return a list of hyperlinks and brief descriptions
of the Web pages that match the particular query.
In the United States the most frequently used search engines (as
of 2004) are at www.Google.com
(65%), www.MSN.com
(15%), and www.Yahoo.com
(15%). The remaining 5% of search engine activity is conducted on
dozens of smaller, specialized sites. Most of the larger search
engines allow Web sites to purchase keyword-sensitive boxed ads,
or bid for priority positioning in the list of results. A common
basis for payment is cost per click-through.
Innovations in search engine technology allow users to search for
images, discussion groups, news items, online stores, catalogs,
school Web sites, conduct local searches, and customize their search
results according to personal preferences.
Note that Yahoo! has both a hierarchical Web directory maintained
by humans, and also a proprietary search engine. Web directories,
such as the one at Yahoo! are often erroneously called search engines.
Search engine optimization is the art (and science) of coding Web
pages so they appear higher in the rankings delivered by search
engines. Just for fun, go to either www.Google.com,
www.MSN.com, or
www.Yahoo.com,
and enter the keywords “contract employees” in the search
window. Your query will return literally millions of Web pages.
Check out the rankings of the Web sites for The Contract Employee’s
Handbook (www.cehandbook.com)
and the CEHandbook’s own employer of record service, P.A.C.E.
(www.pacepros.com).
Pretty neat, huh? (By the way, we didn’t buy our rankings.
We earned them by delivering quality content!) You can learn more
about how search engines work at Search Engine Watch, www.searchenginewatch.com.
Search engine optimization
Context: Tools and Infrastructure
The art (and science) of coding Web pages so they appear higher
in the rankings delivered by search engines. Whereas optimizing
one’s Web site is a strategic decision, the process of search
engine optimization is decidedly a short-term, tactical operation.
Search engines constantly change the criteria they use to evaluate
Web pages, so employing the latest “tricks of the trade”
can be like shooting at a moving target. And, paying for ads and/or
premium placement in search engine results is barely credible. The
best strategy for appearing high in the search engine rankings is
to develop quality content. Quality content is the one criteria
that will always insure that your professional Web site will appear
high in the rankings and stay there.
You can pay big bucks to have someone else optimize your Web pages,
but this approach is not practical for most Contract Professionals.
Your best approach is to purchase a book on the subject, for example,
Insider’s Guide to SEO: How to Get Your Website to the Top
of the Search Engines by Andreas Ramos and Stephanie Cota. Often,
the search sites, themselves, give tips on search engine optimization.
Stemming
Context: Tools and Infrastructure
A term used in Internet search technology. Stemming occurs when
a search application creates a list of possible word forms derived
from a given “stem” word, usually a verb. For example,
stemming the word “recruit” produces a list of word forms
including recruits, recruited, recruiting, recruiter, recruiters,
and recruitment. Thus, the search results will contain the keyword
that was entered in the search window, as well as words related
to the keyword.
Strategic
Context: General Usage
- Highly important to, or an integral part of, a strategy or long-term
plan of action, especially in war. Examples of usage include,
strategic decision; strategic chess move; strategic withdrawal;
strategic bombing mission; strategic campaign; strategic thinking;
strategic importance; strategic consideration.
- A way of thinking in which a comprehensive plan of action is
made, which is intended to accomplish a specific goal or long-term
objective. For example: “Nancy has great vision. She’s
a far-sighted strategic thinker, but her management style produces
only tactical disasters.”
Context: Business Practices
- Relating to a long-term vision for the future of a business
entity, in which the focus is on improving and sustaining the
performance of the organization.
- Describing what corporate leadership sees for the distant future.
For example: “The CEO and the Board of Directors introduced
a strategic business initiative designed to restructure the failing
systems manufacturing company into a major producer of outsourced
electronic components.”
- Other examples of usage include:
- Strategic alliance: A long-term business partnership or
joint venture, which may or may not entail joint ownership,
by which the alliance partners seek to enhance their mutual
benefit. For example, a strategic relationship between a manufacturing
firm and a major channel partner.
- Strategic buyout: The purchase of all or part of another
business with the goal of enhancing the organization’s
long-term profits.
- Strategic planning: The process by which an organization
arrives at a strategy.
Strategy
Context: General Usage
- A branch of military studies dealing with the science and art
of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct
of large-scale military operations. For example: “It is generally
acknowledged by all but the staunchest supporters of the administration
that the strategy of winning the hearts and minds of the people
was defeated by a woeful lack of tactical support.”
- By extension of the above, the science and art of using all
the forces of a nation, or allied group of nations, to execute
approved military plans as effectively as possible during peace
or war.
- By further extension, any long-range plan of action intended
to accomplish a specific goal or objective.
- A long-range plan whose merit cannot be evaluated until sometime
after those who created it, and who will ultimately benefit financially
from it, have left public office. (grin) For example: “It
is widely accepted that a life in politics is a strategy for personal
enrichment at the expense of the citizenry.”
Context: Business Practices
- A long-term plan; a vision for the future of a business entity.
A business strategy is a fundamental framework through which an
organization can assert its continuity, while at the same time
adapting to a changing business environment. The ultimate objective
of a business strategy is to ensure the business continues to
create profits for the principle stakeholders (e.g., owners, stockholders).
- Other examples of business strategies include:
- Exit strategy: Long-range plan leading to the profitable selling
the business, or otherwise cashing in on the business’
equity.
- Investment strategy: Long-range plan for allocating a business’
disposable assets for an optimum balance of profit and risk.
- Growth strategy: Long-range plan for managing the processes
associated with growing a business.
Tactic
Context: General Usage
- A tactic is an action taken to solve a specific, immediate problem
or accomplish a specific, short-term goal. For example: “Mary
employed a number of ingenious tactics in order to insure that
her pipeline of billable projects was always full.“
- Tactics are concerned with the details of getting something
done, whereas strategies are concerned with the long term vision.
For example: “Each individual activity in the project timeline
represents a critical individual tactic contributing to our larger
strategic mission of world domination.”
Tactical
Context: General Usage
- The lowest level of military operations; the view from the trenches
and the foxholes. Tactical decisions are those made by the commanders
on the spot, on the front lines. For example, how to win the battle,
as opposed to how to win the war.
- Relating to concerns about how to achieve an immediate, short-term
objective (as developed in the strategy, for example), and providing
a framework for the operational delivery.
- Of or pertaining to tactic or tactics. For example: “Jane
acknowledged that referring to her manager’s large earrings
as beautiful zircons was an unfortunate tactical error in her
rise up the corporate ladder,” or “Your problem, Jack,
is that you seem to get bogged down in the tactical view; not
paying enough attention to the organization’s long-range
strategic objectives.”
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P.A.C.E. News
P.A.C.E. Employer of Record Service Is Not Just
For Self-reliant Contractors and Consultants
- Agency Contractors.
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- Don't be excluded from higher compensation and superior
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- You can't afford not to use P.A.C.E. as your employer
of record.
- Contact P.A.C.E. today:
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or
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The Contract Employee's
Project
The Contract Employee's Project is the larger context under which
the following interrelated vehicles operate to promote and defend
the interests of Contract Professionals:
- The Contract Employee's Handbook
- The Contract Employee's Newsletter
- The Contract Employee's Workshop
- Professional Association for Contract Employment (P.A.C.E.)
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Copyright (c) 2004, James R. Ziegler. All rights reserved.
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duplication, including republication in part or in full for commercial
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Published by:
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USA
http://www.pacepros.com/
Editor:
James R. Ziegler, Ph.D.
Executive Director
P.A.C.E. -- Professional Association for Contract Employment
(925) 680-0200
CENewsletters@pacepros.com
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interesting, informative, and provocative. I encourage you to share
the CENewsletter with your friends, colleagues, coworkers, clients,
and agency recruiters.
Why clients? Because you need every ally you can get. Why agency
recruiters? Because they need to know the jig is up.
Wishing you success in your contracting career,
James R. Ziegler, Ph.D.
Executive Director
P.A.C.E. -- Professional Association for Contract Employment
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