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Publications for Contract Professionals
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- You may have to download a free copy of the most current version
of Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view these files.
- A Very Useful Web Site Sponsored by P.A.C.E.
- Contract
Employee's Handbook
This useful Web site has lots of useful content for independent,
freedom-loving, contract professionals such as Free Agents,
Freelancers, and Contract Employees.
- Useful Articles
- P.A.C.E.
Flyer
Include this P.A.C.E. flyer in your consulting proposals, and
refer to this link in your electronic communications with client
companies. Distribute copies to colleagues, client employees
and fellow Contract Professionals. The P.A.C.E. Flyer promotes
your association with the nation's foremost provider of services
for the contingent workforce.
- An
Overview of Technical and Professional Contracting
This mini e-book provides an excellent overview of the staffing
industry from the Contract Professional's perspective. This
overview will give you the knowledge you need to get the most
out of the articles listed below.
- The
Road to Independence
This article looks at employment and contracting from a common
perspective focusing on the back-office products and services
that employers typically provide for their employees, which
independent professionals must provide for themselves.
- Build
Your Billing Rate Worksheet
This worksheet is an extremely valuable tool.
- If you are self-employed or if you are an employee of
the P.A.C.E. Portable W-2 employer-of-record service, this
worksheet will tell you the MINIMUM hourly billing rate
that you MUST bill your client in order to earn your
desired annual gross profit. The worksheet also works for
fixed-price billing of deliverables and milestones.
- If you are employed by a staffing vendor (contract house,
temp agency, etc.) this worksheet will tell you the MINIMUM
hourly pay rate (gross wage) that your staffing vendor
MUST pay you in order that you may earn your desired
annual gross profit after payment of all business-related
expenses.
- The
Highest-paying Job You Will Ever Have
Marketing your expertise directly to potential clients and landing
a contract assignment without the assistance of a staffing vendor
may be the highest-paying job you will ever have.
- The
Two Agendas of a Contract Professional
Completing your assignments cheerfully, competently, on time,
and under budget is what earns the big bucks: That's your explicit
agenda as a contract professional. You also have an implicit
agenda. The items on your implicit agenda are not billable activities,
but they are just as crucial -- maybe more so -- to your success
as a contract professional.
- Dungaree
Dan Becomes a Contractor
A story based on true events that describes how one temp was
able to upgrade his skills and increase his pay rate 400% while
on assignment at the same client.
- Resumes
for Contract Workers
This section of The Contract Employee's Handbook introduces
the P.A.C.E. Functional Resume. Use the enclosed template to
build a powerful marketing tool that will attract clients and
discourage predatory recruiting firms.
- Avoiding
Contractor Recruiting Firms
This document explains how you can register your availability
online, yet avoid getting lots of calls from predatory recruiting
firms.
- Inefficiency
and Greed
This document explains how to calculate the inefficiency and
greed in agency margins. It also explains how to calculate a
fair corp-to-corp (or 1099) billing rate based on your agency's
initial offer of a W-2 pay rate.
- Setting
Your Rates
This document discusses how to set your hourly rate at the same
high level charged by the recruiting firms.
- Someone
Else's Employee
Print this white paper and give a copy to your potential clients.
- Someone Else's Employee" explains how independent
contractors are systematically stripped of their independence
by a recruiting system that disenfranchises contract professionals
from the benefits of self-employment, limits them to mediocre
health and retirement benefits, and seriously eats into
their potential earnings.
- The concluding paragraphs of this white paper show how
contract professionals can avoid the oppressive influence
of predatory recruiting firms, and regain control over their
consulting careers, even in those situations where the client
company wants them to be someone else’s employee.
- The white paper also explains why billing your contract
services through an umbrella service like P.A.C.E. is an
excellent alternative to traditional staffing agencies,
given their high margins and mediocre benefit packages.
- An Important White Paper from P.A.C.E.
for Client Companies
- Talking
Yourself into Trouble
Because everyday speech, thoughts, attitudes and activities
in the workplace contribute to co-employment risk, it is imperative
that companies foster a corporate culture that rigorously
and consistently reinforces the differences in worker status
by promoting written and oral communications that unambiguously
convey worker status.
This white paper should be required reading for HR managers,
Procurement managers, executives and employees at every level
of the organization.
Download, print, and give a copy of this white paper
to every project manager and client employee you work with!
- 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.
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- The Contract
Employee's Newsletter
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