Anyone else suffering from a holiday lull?

[AnotherGuy]

26 days now on the bench

[Cirrus]

Who can work this out??

which validates why IT demand is dropping for months now...

In fact contractor demand has been rising relentlessly all year. Against that, this is the tightest market I can remember.

Weird or what??

[suityou01]

26 days now on the bench

Noobie

[uk contractor]

In fact contractor demand has been rising relentlessly all year. Against that, this is the tightest market I can remember.

Weird or what??

Your including virtual job ads, duplicate job ads, fake job ads, working for peanuts & or all of the above!! real world demand is dropping like a stone & has been for months

[AnotherGuy]

Noobie

As a matter of fact, I am. Just trying to get my second gig.
Maybe it is real the most difficult is not the first one but the second one...

[GJABS]

As a matter of fact, I am. Just trying to get my second gig.
Maybe it is real the most difficult is not the first one but the second one...

I think suity was referring to you being a noobie on "the bench", rather than in the contracting industry as a whole.

In better news I had my first phone interview with a client since hitting the bench 3 weeks ago. It went quite well despite the fact that the agent didn't confirm the 1pm interview time with me - so the phone rang when I was in the gents changing room of my local gym.
Hopefully the sound of intermittent showers, voices, and muffled pop music from the gym next door won't have detracted from my interview performance

[SussexSeagull]

Perhaps I am overly tardy in such things but I wouldn't consider a month between contracts as excessive.

[suityou01]

I think suity was referring to you being a noobie on "the bench", rather than in the contracting industry as a whole.

In better news I had my first phone interview with a client since hitting the bench 3 weeks ago. It went quite well despite the fact that the agent didn't confirm the 1pm interview time with me - so the phone rang when I was in the gents changing room of my local gym.
Hopefully the sound of intermittent showers, voices, and muffled pop music from the gym next door won't have detracted from my interview performance

You are quite correct.

[LucidDementia]

Perhaps I am overly tardy in such things but I wouldn't consider a month between contracts as excessive.

Maybe it's just me, but I tend to take a month straight off the bat. Maybe go away somewhere, maybe not.
You're unlikely to see me entertaining offers inside 4 weeks anyway, but then I don't really consider that "bench time" either. It's holiday, freedom, LIFE!

[AnotherGuy]

Perhaps I am overly tardy in such things but I wouldn't consider a month between contracts as excessive.

Thanks. That's a relief.

Not that I need money, so that's not what worries me. But being quite new to the contracting world I just want to build some more experience and get some gigs under my belt. And feeling the market might not be what it used to...