newbie w/ question

[thaven at world.std.com (Timothy W Haven)]

All of my work over the last ~10 years has been as a W-2 employee
of various agencies. I worked as SA, Network Admin and Build Engineer.
This is a very unscientific list (personal experience only):

American Contract 492-4203: It has been years, but I was very
impressed when I worked for them. Very professional (as opposed
to "salesperson focus" of some recruiters). Small agency.

Renaissance 888-772-9119: Large agency, extremely good benefits.
Seemed typical, but good.

Modis 603-898-2266: Current agency, good agency, very good at
payroll (even when you have trouble getting timecards signed, etc.)

These are the ones on which I have an opinion (that I can think of).

Be aware that if you are thinking of working as a W-2 employee of
an agency, you can make some friend a lot of money.
Some of these agencies have BIG bonuses for referrals.
One has/had a 1K bonus for first referral, 2K for 2nd, 3K for 3rd,
4K for 4th (max was $10,000 total). (I might have the details wrong.)
All of these programs seem to require the new person work for at
least 4-6 months, then referrer gets the money even if the person
referred quits the next day.

Timothy

On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:45:31PM -0400, Emmanuel Roldan wrote:
> Thanks,
> I'll do my research.  Any other ideas are welcome.
> Emmanuel
> 
> 
> >From: Derek Martin <ddm at mclinux.com>
> >To: Emmanuel Roldan <elroldan at hotmail.com>
> >CC: discuss at Blu.Org
> >Subject: Re: newbie w/ question
> >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:50:04 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Emmanuel Roldan wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > my name's Emmanuel, and I'm new here.  Have a quick question--is there
> > > something of a ranking of the SA companies, by the SA's, out there?
> > > Something of a "Forbes Top 100" list, that shows what Sysadmin
> > > contracting/consultancy companies are the best to work for, with a
> > > line-by-line comparison?
> >
> >Computerworld used to publish a yearly report of the best IT shops to work
> >in, and I'd bet they still do but I don't subscribe anymore so I can't say
> >for certain...
> >
> >I'm not aware of any other such rankings, though they may well exist.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Derek Martin
> >Senior System Administrator
> >Mission Critical Linux
> >martin at MissionCriticalLinux.com
> >
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