Contractors' Handbook: For Contractors Determined to Stay in Contract

Comprehensive advice for contractors

Have you ever longed for an instruction book on contracting – a handy guide to steer you through bewildering legislation, incomprehensible financial mumbo-jumbo and ever-changing employment trends?

Dave Chaplin, contractor and founder of the popular ContractorCalculator.co.uk has created the ultimate resource for contractors: The Contractors' Handbook.

Helping you stay in contract

Freelancesupermarket spoke to Chaplin to find out why this book will be useful to contractors:

"It's not enough for good contractors to do good work. For a contractor to get the best contracts at the best rates, they need to develop their interviewing, negotiating and CV writing skills.

Contractors' Handbook is designed to help good contractors stay in contract and maximise the financial rewards for their hard work."

Contractor advice from contractors

Chaplin is a veteran of the contracting scene, and the advice contained in this book is the result of over 10 years of successful contracting. After seeing highly-skilled contractors losing contracts because of their weak interviewing or marketing skills, Chaplin began to assemble advice on the non-core skills that contractors need to succeed in a crowded marketplace.

Contractors' Handbook includes comprehensive, easy to understand advice on:

• Interviews - how to make the best impression
• CV writing - how to ensure your CV gets read
• Negotiating - maximising your earnings
• Sales - how to close a deal
• Finding contracts - where to look and how to go about it.

When things go wrong

In case the very thorough advice in Contractors' Handbook isn't enough to keep you from cocking it all up, Chaplin kindly provides a brilliant What to do when things go wrong section. This covers contract negotiation, terms, renewals, restrictions, termination and breaches, as well as difficult clients, payment problems and other financial quagmires.

Contractors' Handybook

Contractors' Handbook is absolutely stuffed with useful information. Chaplin goes deep into all of the (sometimes complex) issues affecting contractors, chewing them up and spitting them back out as understandable info-nuggets.

Contractors' Handbook is the ideal reference book, perfect for turning to in times of doubt or crisis. It's also perfect for boosting the skills that will help you find work and earn more money. It's worth a browse for the section on CVs alone!

Leif Kendall
Freelance Copywriter & News Editor
freelancesupermarket.com

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