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I'm just thinking about becoming freelance - any help to the following questions would be much appreciated.
1) I've been in the world of work as a perm employee for about 2 and 1/2 years now in total - is that long enough to get decent paying marketing jobs? :confused:
2) what are the going rates for account/senior account managers these days? :rolleyes:
3) i've heard that freelancers can now get holiday - is this true? đ
hmmm thats all i can think of now - once i've done more research i'll prob have more questions around the legalities of it all.. contracts, taxmans, etc but i'll cross that bridge when i get to it... just want to ascertain if this is for me... what i've researched so far - i like! Would appreciate answers to my questions above though...
thanks
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I'm just thinking about becoming freelance - any help to the following questions would be much appreciated.
1) I've been in the world of work as a perm employee for about 2 and 1/2 years now in total - is that long enough to get decent paying marketing jobs? :confused:
2) what are the going rates for account/senior account managers these days? :rolleyes:
3) i've heard that freelancers can now get holiday - is this true? đ
hmmm thats all i can think of now - once i've done more research i'll prob have more questions around the legalities of it all.. contracts, taxmans, etc but i'll cross that bridge when i get to it... just want to ascertain if this is for me... what i've researched so far - i like! Would appreciate answers to my questions above though...
thanks
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journoman
Messages count : 13Likes count : 0Registration : 6 November 2006
Depends what you have learned in that 2 years! I would have thought that it was certainly enough to make a start as a freelancer - you must have picked up a fair bit of knowledge in those 2 years which would be useful to a variety of different places?Arps, post: 460 a Ă©crit : Hi!!
I'm just thinking about becoming freelance - any help to the following questions would be much appreciated.
1) I've been in the world of work as a perm employee for about 2 and 1/2 years now in total - is that long enough to get decent paying marketing jobs? :confused:
Arps, post: 460 a Ă©crit : 2) what are the going rates for account/senior account managers these days? :rolleyes:
A quick search on jobserve or one of the many other job boards will give you an idea of what you can expect, but try to look at it from the other point of view ie what are you worth to them? the going rate might be ÂŁ50k, but if you can prove you can bring in ÂŁ1m of business they might well pay you more.
Arps, post: 460 a Ă©crit : 3) i've heard that freelancers can now get holiday - is this true? đ
Yep - take a holiday when you like. Just don't expect to be paid for it!!! - Contact in PM
MickeyFinn
Messages count : 120Likes count : 0Registration : 30 October 2006Good advice Journoman, a little bit of research will show you current rates - just use the job boards!
Not sure what the market is like for freelance account managers, I would contact a few agencies and see what they say too.
As for holidays, these are likely to either part of the contract - the contract may even stipulate that holidays need to be requested X weeks in advance so their business does not suffer. Make sure you are aware of IR35 if you are working for a single client. How holidays are taken is one of the points that can be used to see whether you fall inside or outside of IR35. - Contact in PM
mitch 70
Messages count : 2Likes count : 0Registration : 7 March 2007I'm about to embark on the freelance career path. Got 14 years experience in marketing art work deisn art direction. I've just set up as a LTD company. If you go through a recruitment consultant and go PAYE, some agencies offer holiday best go and see a few and ask.:)