By Sarah Smith

Choosing a management company that gives you what you want and when you want it, can be a hazardous chore. There are so many management companies touting for your business, with special offers and competitive fees. This can often add to the confusion of what management company would best suit you.

In today’s market, many management companies offer a wide range of services that appeal to most contractors; flat fees, salary packaging/sacrifices, superannuation, payroll, LAFHA, payroll, payroll summaries, the bonus of payroll tax exemption, to name but a few of the benefits on offer. ‘Offer’ being the imperative word here. The company you choose needs to be able to follow through on the ‘offers’ they advertise. To the inexperienced contractor, most management companies appear to offer the same services and similar fees. How do you sort out the reputable companies from the sharks?

Today, Peoplebank announced an exciting new National Discounted Contractor Training Programme to help our contractors get ahead in their careers.

At Peoplebank, we are committed to looking after our contractor’s complete development needs. Which is why we are proud to announce that we have partnered with Dimension Data Learning Solutions (DDLS), Australia’s largest provider of IT Technical, Process and People training programs to give our contractors access to a broad range of IT&T courses, at significantly discounted rates!

The Peoplebank Intermedium Federal ICT Labour Hire Index - August 2009

The second release of the Index shows a continuing correction in the public sector ICT contractor market over the past 12 months. This downward trend – which has seen the Index fall by more than a third from September 08 to May 09 – is likely to continue until 2010.