The IT Contracting Academy

Are You Ready To Go Contracting?

If you're considering contracting - now or in the future - then this scorecard will show you how prepared you actually are.

In under five minutes, you’ll be scored across three areas that consistently determine success as a contractor.
You’ll see where you’re already well-positioned, and what would strengthen your position before you step into the contracting market.
  • FREE
  • Takes less than 5 mins
  • Instant personalised results

Discover your contracting readiness score

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Are You Ready To Go Contracting?

If you're considering contracting - now or in the future - then this scorecard will show you how prepared you actually are.

In under five minutes, you’ll be scored across three areas that consistently determine success as a contractor.
You’ll see where you’re already well-positioned, and what would strengthen your position before you step into the contracting market.
  • FREE
  • Takes less than 5 mins
  • Instant personalised results

Discover your contracting readiness score

Enter your details to get started

We promise not to share your details

Who Should Take This Scorecard?

This scorecard is for employed IT professionals who are actively considering contracting as their next career move - now or in the future.

If you’re uncertain, curious or preparing, this will give you clarity on what to focus on.

​I can't recommend David Gerrish's CV review and scorecard service enough.  At a time when I really needed professional guidance, his feedback was truly invaluable.

Steve Nicholls
UX Designer

As an aspiring contractor the scorecard really helped me to understand, from the perspective of an experienced contractor, how my mindset needed to shift to make the switch from permanent roles.

Joe Scott
Human-first IT Consultant

This is a great tool to identify and prioritise actions in different areas of your contractor job search. This has been a great first step for me, and a complete free of charge service from Dave.

Oliver Harper
Project & Programme Management

This was very useful as I could get a clear bearing on where I am in my contracting journey and what areas I need to focus on to make the next steps in my career. The clarity call with David was very helpful and reassuring as well.

Lucien Uwayo
Management Consultant

I thought the "Are you ready to go contracting?" scorecard was very useful and allowed me some clarity on the next steps.

Amjid Khan
Principal Cloud Engineer

The scorecard was really helpful to understand all the pillars you should consider before embarking as a new Contractor. I recommend it.

Marco Calva
Digital Transformation Consultant

The scorecard was very useful to see where you are in your readiness for contracting.  It gives you a score in each of the three areas and ways to improve your score.

Fraser Dickson
Consultant Business Analyst

I liked the scorecard very much! It made me think about several aspects of contracting which hadn’t crossed my mind yet, so now I’m reading up!

Alex Shaw
Senior Business Analyst & Product Owner

Once I'd completed the scorecard, I got very useful feedback in 3 areas: Mechanics, Mindset and Market. I would recommend the scorecard to anyone who is looking to transition to contracting.

David Judge
Observability/AIOps/Automation SME

The scorecard offered an objective assessment of my readiness for the contracting market, helping me identify both strengths and gaps. This structured feedback is invaluable.

Sukhvinder Chana
Senior Business Integration Analyst

The scorecard gave me a good understanding of where I am at with wanting to start contracting. It is a great way for budding contractors to understand what they need to do to become a contractor and what need they need to work on to make that happen.

Paul Davis
Project Manager

I have found this process a great spring board into contracting and very helpful in preparing myself for the journey ahead.

Alex Drummond
Director, Project / Programme Management, Date Centre Operations, Integration, Technology

The scorecard poses some excellent questions that make you think about what is important to you from a work/life perspective and therefore how suitable contracting might be. It was a very thought-provoking exercise and where I was able to use the Clarity Call that Dave also provides to ask some questions, get some advice and insight before firming up my thinking on whether contracting was the right move for me. Thanks to Dave and the services he provides I am now in my first contracting role, having made the leap with great clarity, having previously only worked a perm employee.

Marc Atkins
Business Analysis | Business and Digital Transformation

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