How do you get IT contracts?!

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DP is a project manager. He's looking to start to his own business managing deployments etc for companies. He's a bit lost as to how you go about pitching to companies or even find out about contracts.

He's dyslexic and scouring pages online was taking him ages with little sinking in so I thought I would ask here!

In the old days (!) you would only get them via an agency - ie recruitment agency. It gives both the employer and the contractor a slight form of protection.
No idea what happens these days, tbh. I was last in it 20 years ago.

Oh, sounds difficult. It could be that he'd be better off working for someone else. I knew a programmer who was dyslectic, and it worked very nicely (because the compilation corrected all spelling mistakes) but you had to be careful when programming the user dialogue, always had to proof-read. A lot of people working as consultants with e.g. programming start off working for old clients they've gotten to know while they were employed at a larger firm.

If your husband is dyslectic, that will be a major road block, not so much in terms of what he could manage, but rather in terms of what others think he could manage. (Choosing between a project manager with dyslexia and someone who is not ... well ... )

How come he's looking at starting his own business now? Is he unemployed?

That's how he's always gotten them as an individual. Now he wants to recruit engineers and deploy, manage etc.

Google is not helping much!

No his last place mucked him about so much he quit. He's got a new job but rather than go through an umbrella company (bad experience last time!) he's set up a company to get paid into and was looking to expand.

His dyslexia has actually helped his work as he's very fastidious about thoroughly reading all the client docs, scripts etc. It's just research that lets him down.