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    Improve Your Computer Career: 10 Step Employment Guide
    Improve Your Computer Career: 10 Step Employment Guide
    Improve Your Computer Career: 10 Step Employment Guide
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    Improve Your Computer Career: 10 Step Employment Guide

    By Eric Kay

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    About Author:

    Eric Kay has been working in New York City for over 15 years as a computer consultant. His clients included major Wall Street firms, Big 4 consulting company as well as Fortune 100 telecommunications and pharmaceutical companies.

    Using techniques described in this guide Eric Kay was able to greatly improve his computer career, find jobs and projects faster and negotiate higher salaries and consulting rates.

    About the book:

    Join hundreds of IT professionals who used this employment guide to learn how to improve their computer career and:
    -How to efficiently and effectively use Dice.com and Monster.com to save hours everyday and have more time to spend on things you really enjoy doing
    -How to avoid very costly mistakes and prevent recruiters and employment agencies from taking advantage of you
    -How to write “recession proof” resume that will get you more interviews and will advance your computer career
    -How to make thousands of dollars more by deciding whether it is best to work on a W2, 1099 or "Corp To Corp"
    -How to have recruiters and clients call you with computer career opportunities, instead of you chasing them
    -How to negotiate best rates and terms with recruiters and employment agencies so that you are the one making the most money not them making biggest commission
    -How to realize advantages of working on a short term job/project
    -How to screen recruiters and employment agencies so that you don't waste your time dealing with the ones who don't have any potential jobs but are just looking to "build their database"
    -Understand why recruiters and employment agencies are working against you and not for you

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEric Kay
    Release dateJan 2, 2014
    ISBN9781310654565
    Improve Your Computer Career: 10 Step Employment Guide

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      Improve Your Computer Career - Eric Kay

      Improve Your Computer Career

      10 Step Employment Guide

      Eric Kay

      Copyright 2013 by Eric Kay

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      Introduction

      Did you ever wonder why a person sitting next to you in the office chooses to work as an independent computer consultant while telling you that he/she is not getting any benefits such health insurance, paid vacation and sick leave? The answer is very simple and may surprise you. This person is doing it because he/she is making 50-100% more than you are while doing the same exact work.

      At the same time this person does not have to worry about office politics, size of the annual bonus and whether or not he/she will be getting a promotion. The reason for this is rather simple; all this person really cares and worries about is this person’s hourly rate that he/she is getting for every hour that he/she is working.

      In addition to making 50-100% more than a permanent employee independent consultant, depending on contractual status, gets to deduct various items as business expenses such as cell phone, home internet connection, tolls for traveling

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