Important Note for Recruiters and Contract Agencies

If you are acting as an agency for another company that is seeking technical expertise, please read and understand this policy before contacting me. It will save us both a lot of time and frustration.

You may ask, do I work with recruiters? The short answer is yes, but only under very particular conditions.

There are particular agencies that I like to work with. Those agencies know me as an individual, think of me right away when they have appropriate prospects for me, and don't come on to me like bad car salesmen.

I am in business for myself, as a professional, like a lawyer or doctor. It is helpful to me for agencies to find me clients who I can work with successfully. But the vast majority of recruiters do not have the kind of work I am looking for.

I work strictly on a corporation-to-client basis, with my invoices sent directly to the client and their checks sent directly to me. You arrange your fees with clients however you wish.
I negotiate rates and sign all contracts directly between me and the client.
I work from my own office. I'm happy to travel to client sites as necessary for meetings, code integration, or to work closely with QA engineers during the final phases as a project, but I don't work at the client's site on a day-to-day basis.
I'm not interested in permanent jobs of any kind.
I am interested in talking to people who wish to invest in my business.

The key to understanding how to work with me is that GoingWare, Inc. is a corporation and a business, not a temp employee.

To get yourself taken seriously as a prospective agency for GoingWare, Inc. to do business with, it is very important that you actually read my resume. It is very clear to me that most of the agencies who contact me have not read it even if they have looked at my website, or are even aware of what kind of work that I do. That's why I put this policy note up.

Thank you,

Michael D. Crawford
GoingWare, Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting

http://www.goingware.com
crawford@goingware.com

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