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Intec Newsletter Winter 2006

Welcome to the latest Intec newsletter. Please find below details of the latest key vacancies, a brief introduction to the latest members of our team and details of how you can maximise your take home income.

As always we've included a selection jokes and random facts for your amusement.

If you have any comments, questions or feedback please email newsletter@inteconline.co.uk or call 01524 426 777.

Until next time – take care.


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Key Vacancies

Site Civil Engineer M&E
Position Type - Contract
Location - Wales
Salary - Negotiable

Electrical Commissioning Engineer
Position Type - Contract
Location - Dublin
Salary - Negotiable

QA Engineer
Position Type - Contract
Location - UK Wide
Salary - £27 per hour

Planning Engineer
Position Type - Permanent
Location - Swindon
Salary - Negotiable

Senior Architectural Technician
Position Type - Permanent
Location - Lancaster
Salary - £45,000-£55,000 + Benefits

Site Senior Quantity Surveyor - Pilling
Position Type - Permanent
Location - Staffordshire
Salary - £30-35000 plus car/allowance and benefits

Engineer (Civils/Structural)
Position Type - Permanent
Location - Hamilton, Birmingham, Manchester and London
Salary - Negotiable

Principal Engineer (Geotech)
Position Type - Permanent
Location - Hamilton, Birmingham, Manchester and London
Salary - Negotiable

Graduate Engineer (Geotechnical)
Position Type - Permanent
Location - Hamilton, Birmingham, Manchester and London
Salary - Negotiable

Design Engineer
Position Type - Permanent
Location - York
Salary - Negotiable

Click here now to search for more live vacancies!

For more information about vacancies at Intec please contact us today:
01524 426 777 | intec@inteconline.co.uk | www.inteconline.co.uk


New Joiners

Richard Fraser joins as Trainee Account Developer.

Lee Rush joins as Trainee Recruitment Consultant.

Katie-Anne Taylor joins as Trainee Account Manager.

Lisa Smith joins as Trainee Account Manager.

Danielle Stephenson joins as Trainee Account Manager.

Katie Bury joins as Sales Administrator.

Barbara Abel joins as Payroll Administrator.


Children in Need

Tache Friday

Staff at Intec raised over £1000 for Children in Need on Friday 17 November. Many of the male employees were sponsored to grow moustaches for what became known as Tache Friday. Account Developer Kevin Nichol went one step further (or backwards, depending on how you look at it) and had his head shaved and eyebrows waxed off, raising £282 in the process. A tombola and donut eating contest added to the grand total.

To donate to Children in Need please Click Here


Making Life Less Taxing

Contracting is growing in popularity as more people adopt flexible working patterns and those with in-demand skills seek to maximise their earning potential.

Being self-employed has several obvious advantages, not least the fact you will be your own boss with the freedom to choose to work on the projects you wish. A downside, however, is that you are responsible for organising your own administrative affairs.

As an alternative to setting up your own limited company, contractors outside of IR35 earning less than £40 per hour (or £325 per day) may wish to use a composite company service.

Independent Contractor Services (www.ics.me.uk) provides a composite service whereby payments are received on your behalf, and all invoicing, accounting, bookkeeping, tax returns, expenses and the important business of ensuring you always get paid on time are dealt with for you. Another benefit of using a composite service is that you actually end up paying less tax, which of course makes it attractive to contractors!

Contractors outside of IR35 that earn more than £40 per hour (or £325 per day) may wish to use a salary package. ICS operates a salary package that essentially divides your total income into its taxable and non-taxable components, with the aim of reducing the overall level of tax you pay. As with a composite service, all your administrative tasks are undertaken for you.

Contractors that fall within IR35 can reduce their tax burden by joining an umbrella company. As with the composite service and salary package, ICS can manage this for you. As well as increasing your take home pay, an umbrella company will handle the administrative headache of running a company, so you can focus on your core skills without distraction.

Useful contacts:
Independent Contractor Services
Freephone 0800 195 3750 | info@ics.me.uk | www.ics.me.uk

ICS


Five Old Jokes

A lonely frog, desperate for any form of company, telephoned the Psychic Hotline to find out what his future has in store.
His Personal Psychic Advisor advises him, "You are going to meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know everything about you."
The frog is thrilled and says, "This is great! Where will I meet her, at work, at a party?"
"No" says the psychic, "in biology class."

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A man came home from work one day to find his wife sitting on the front porch with her bags packed. He asked her where she was going and she replied "I'm going to Las Vegas."
He questioned her as to why she was going and she told him "I just found out that I can make £300 a night doing what I give you for free".
He pondered that then went into the house and packed his bags and returned to the porch and with his wife. She said "And just where do you think you're going?"
"I'm going too!!" he replied.
"Why?" She asked.
"I want to see how you are going to live on £600 a year"!

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"The doctor said he would have me on my feet in two weeks."
"And did he?"
"Yes, I had to sell the car to pay the bill."

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A drunken man walked into a bar and, after staring for some time at the only woman seated at the bar, walked over to her and kissed her. She jumped up and slapped him silly.
He immediately apologised and explained, "I'm sorry. I thought you were my wife. You look exactly like her."
"Why you worthless, insufferable, wretched, no good drunk!" she screamed.
"Funny," he muttered, "you even sound exactly like her."

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"How was your golf game, dear?" asked Jack's wife Tracy.
"Well, I was hitting pretty well, but my eyesight's gotten so bad I couldn't see where the ball went."
"But you're seventy-five years old, Jack!" admonished his wife, "Why don't you take my brother Scott along?"
"But he's eighty-five and doesn't even play golf anymore," protested Jack.
"But he's got perfect eyesight. He could watch your ball," Tracy pointed out.
The next day Jack teed off with Scott looking on. Jack swung, and the ball disappeared down the middle of the fairway. "Do you see it?" asked Jack.
"Yup," Scott answered.
"Well, where is it?" yelled Jack, peering off into the distance.
"I forgot."


Comedy Corner:
The Late, Great Peter Cook in Quotes

“I managed to get through the mining exams – they’re not very rigorous, they only ask you one question, they say ‘Who are you?’ and I got seventy-five per cent on that.”

“I’ve always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I’ve got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I’ve got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.”

“Tragically I was an only twin.”

Dudley Moore: Why do you constantly belittle me?
Peter Cook: Dudley, I don’t think it’s possible to belittle a club-footed dwarf whose only talent is to play Chopsticks in the style of Debussy.

“I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.”

“My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning”

“There’s terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you’re born with these so-called defects you have a very good chance of getting to the top.”

Dudley Moore: Is my entire contribution to this show going to consist of me humiliating myself?
Peter Cook: No, Dudley. We’ll do that for you.
Dudley Moore: Thank you. I wouldn’t want to be appreciated or anything.
Peter Cook: Well, we initially tried looking up to you, Dudley... but when we did, we invariably found ourselves looking down.
“Oh, yes, I’ve learned from my mistakes and I’m sure I could repeat them exactly.”
“Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.”


Random oddness from the Guinness World Book of Records

Goliath Spider

Largest Spider

The world's largest known spider was a male goliath bird-eating spider (Theraphosa blondi), which was collected by members of the Pablo San Martin Expedition at Rio Cavro, Venezuela, in April 1965. It had a record leg-span of 28 cm (11 in) – sufficient to cover a dinner plate. This species is found in the coastal rainforests of Surinam, Guyana and French Guiana, but isolated specimens have also been reported from Venezuela and Brazil.

Longest Fingernails

Lee Redmond (USA), who hasn't cut her nails since 1979, has grown and carefully manicured them to reach a total length of 7 m 51.3 cm (24 ft 7.8 in). We can only ask ‘Why?’

Long Nails
Ear Hair

Longest Ear Hair

Radhakant Bajpai of Naya Ganj, Uttar Pradesh, India, has hair sprouting from the centre of his outer ears (middle of the pinna) that measures an incredible 13.2 cm (5.19 in) at its longest point. The length of the 50-year-old's pinna pelt was confirmed by medical examiner Dr. R P Gupta.

Richest Living Person

William H. Gates III, Chairman and former Chief Software Architect of Microsoft Corporation, is the richest person in the world according to Forbes magazine, which in March 2004 estimated his wealth at $46.6 billion (£25.4 billion). Gates' wealth peaked at $92.5 billion on December 23, 1999. Besides Microsoft Corp., Gates has public investments to an estimated value of over $300 million. In 1986, Gates became the world's youngest ever billionaire, age 31.

Bill Gates

For more information about vacancies at Intec please contact us today:
01524 426 777 | intec@inteconline.co.uk | www.inteconline.co.uk