AQA recruiting

anewman

They want your NI number on the application form. I presume this is to confirm I am in the UK and also for tax purposes. Does anyone know how the whole tax thing works?

Burlesque_Babe

anewan, you need to register as self employed within 3 months of starting. I did it as a second job for 9 months and have been full time AQA since May and it has been easy to sort out.

anewman

keren29 wrote: »

anewan, you need to register as self employed within 3 months of starting. I did it as a second job for 9 months and have been full time AQA since May and it has been easy to sort out.

Makes me wonder if it is worthwhile doing in terms of the money. Perhaps I could try it out for 2 months and see if it rakes in the sort of money I'd be hoping for and if I like the work, if so register as self-employed, if not give the work a miss.

What if I were to play devils advocate and say I wonder what would happen if you didn't register as self-employed, lol. I really can't see AQA making much money unfortunately, and it seems people get laid off quite readily when they review people. I would say that's employment on the cheap without bothering to get all the tax etc worked out, rather than self-employment. You can't be sacked if you're self-employed surely?!

BizzyBek

Got the forms I needed now so no need for this message!

houndgirl

Ive not heard from them to get even the intro pack.Sent an email a week ago.

lawsofnature

anewman wrote: »

What if I were to play devils advocate and say I wonder what would happen if you didn't register as self-employed, lol. I really can't see AQA making much money unfortunately, and it seems people get laid off quite readily when they review people. I would say that's employment on the cheap without bothering to get all the tax etc worked out, rather than self-employment. You can't be sacked if you're self-employed surely?!

If you don't register as self-employed you're committing tax evasion by not declaring your earning (unfortunately!).

You can't be sacked for being self-employed - but you can have your contract to work with them terminated which is just the same as being sacked but without all your employment rights.

I haven't heard before that they lay off people after reviews - this sounds rather ominous! Has anyone else heard this?

anewman

lawsofnature wrote: »

I haven't heard before that they lay off people after reviews - this sounds rather ominous! Has anyone else heard this?

Sure I read it here somewhere http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=516895

iamsavingiamiam

Yes, AQA researchers are reviewed every month at the beginning (less often after the first 3 or 4 months but still every couple of months) and have to meet certain percentages with regard to content, spelling/punctuation/grammar, if you fail to meet the targets in two consecutive reviews your contract may be terminated. AQA standards are high, which is in the interests of all researchers because if standards fall, then customers are unhappy and won't use the service. Then there won't be any questions to answer.

You do see cases where researchers have clicked on the nearest answer available in the database, or in their hurry to answer have misread the question, and it doesn't actually answer the question asked. This kind of thing will be marked down in a review, as will a semi-colon out of place.:eek:

In practice the system works well, for researchers and customes alike but it takes a lot of concentration at first.

gallygirl

Got second test. So, how many grains of sand in pint .

gallygirl

lawsofnature wrote: »

Acc. to wiki one large grain of sand is 4 microlitres.
1000 microlitres = 1 millilitre
So there are 250 grains of sand in 1 millilitre
Acc. to google an imperial pint equals 569 millilitres
So 250 x 569 = 142250 grains of sand.

That took me 3 mins. It doesn't sound right - but that would be the numbers I would crunch.

Thanks Laws of Nature!!!!
Wasn't actually expecting someone to answer it for me :T :T :T . You'e right, sounds a bit low....

Anyone live at the seaside, with a high boredom threshhold .