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Matt Collingwood

Matt Collingwood is the Managing Director of VIQU Ltd. an IT recruitment and project-based consultancy company with offices in Birmingham and Southampton. Matt is also the co-founder of the Recruitment Canaries, a network of West Midlands based recruitment agencies who encourage collaboration, best practice and upholding the standards and ethics of the recruitment industry.

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July versus July might not look especially pretty, so apply these five factors to keep your career hot this summertime.

Like the judge who ripped a recruiter apart, a contractor on LinkedIn is part of the fightback against IR35 ignorance which is gaining ground.

Staffing bosses must accept a role they seem to be shirking, to stamp out arrangements that abuse both the exchequer and contractors.

Forget just being friends if you want truly professional relations which pay dividends.

20th June, 2023 | Successful Contracting

Networking is just knowing lots of people. Fortunately for techies, it’s actually more about pro-activity, consistency and processes.

6th June, 2023 | Successful Contracting

How to succeed as a first-time contractor with technology skills.

31st May, 2023 | First Timers

Pay premiums can be unlocked for IT contractors who realise the following actions are key.

The chancellor is potentially right to look at the masters of legacy technology to help solve an age-old problem.

How 70,000 job cuts in a single month should sit with computer freelancers on this side of the pond.

To do you right, your agent should stop you joining the long line of brolly employees switching mid-contract for the wrong reason.

As recession looms, at least the type of IT contractor recruitment agent you need isn’t in doubt (assuming you like your back scratched).

Agency boss shares some oft-overlooked tips for staying, securing and leaving.

25th August, 2022 | Successful Contracting

What organisations should look at and where, to decide who they need; permies or freelancers.

4th August, 2022 | Successful Contracting

Listed: the advantages and disadvantages of taking on contractors.

25th July, 2022 | Successful Contracting

Running more than one remote contract at a time, on the sly, is a ruse with consequences we could all end up reaping.

‘Reasonable care, skill and diligence’ is required of PSCs. So don’t splurge, fail to file, or put doggie treats on expenses.

A trio of ‘don'ts’ for freelance techies to remember -- even if your skills are hot.

10th June, 2022 | Successful Contracting

Recruiter tricks revealed and contractor tips given -- by a veteran tech agent who knows how to get you the maximum.

27th May, 2022 | Successful Contracting

Three staffing agencies have been hacked – not that any of them are letting on, to you or the ICO. Here’s what contractors can do.

Agency answers the age-old query of why contractors find their umbrellas blocked.

9th February, 2022 | Guide To Agencies