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- From: keves@meaddata.com (Brian Keves)
- Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:21:48 CDT
- Subject: Re: Interview Travel Expenses
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- In article <umTqVB1w165w@seanews.akita.com> ghines@seanews.akita.com (Gary
- Hines) writes:
- >Last week a job shop called to let me know that one of their
- >customers wanted to interview me but that I would have to pay
- >my own travel expenses. I said no thanks. In this case the
- >travel costs would have been about $600 and the job was a
- >three month contract.
- >
- >Since I am new to the world of contract software work, could
- >some of the experienced job shoppers please tell me what is
- >typical with regard to payment of interview travel expenses?
-
- I would say that nothing is "typical". Negotition is the key to
- everything in the contract business. It is what determines
- whether you make a profit or not.
-
- My favorite tactic is to get a percentage of my travel costs
- reimbursed, whether I accept the contract (if offered) or not.
- This works quite well if you are negotitating through a job
- shop. You can usually pressure them for more favors than the
- company directly since they have a stake in you getting the
- contract and are usually willing to put some money on the
- line to make sure you do.
-
- If this doesn't work then just add the travel expenses, and
- also the moving expenses you may incur, into the rate of the
- contract. Even if you let them beat you back down to the
- original rate you are only spending reasonable tax dedutible
- amounts of money for contract hunting.
-
- Of course the big thing to remember before you start any of
- this is to make sure your experience matches the contract.
- I have been able to get most of my contracts via phone
- interviews only. I didn't even see the site until I arrived
- for my first day of work. You have got to feel the contract
- is perfect before you go out and spend your own money on it.
-
- Brian
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- From: keves@meaddata.com (Brian Keves)
- Newsgroups: misc.jobs.contract
- Subject: Re: Interview Travel Expenses
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 19:25:15 GMT
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton Ohio
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