Re: Common practice? WAS: How To: Tactfully deal with salary questions in TW job interviews?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

One interesting experience I had during my last foray into contracting
a couple of years ago was that if I got a call from an agency/recruiter
about a contract at $30-$40/hr and told them, "No thanks, I'm billing
at $50-$75/hr and am fully booked for the next couple of months,"
I would often get calls from the same agency/recruiter a couple of
months later about contracts at the higher rates.  I have no idea if they 
were actually from clients with bigger budgets or if they were also 
calling other writers and offering $30-$40/hr fpr the same contract, 
but there definitely did seem to be a pattern.  Perhaps the fact that I 
was successfully charging a higher rate helped create an assumption
that I must be worth it or I wouldn't be getting it.  Or perhaps it's just
that odd aspect of human nature that makes the unavailable seem more 
attractive (my wife claims that more women flirt with me now than I 
ever noticed when I was single... :)

Gene Kim-Eng



"Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote...