State of the Market

[krytonsheep]

What happens when everyone on LinkedIn has the 'Open to work' feature on?

[willendure]

never been to indonesia, what's it like?

A bit clunky, and not as secure as we once thought.

[SussexSeagull]

What happens when everyone on LinkedIn has the 'Open to work' feature on?

We might be about to find out!

[sadkingbilly]

What happens when everyone on LinkedIn has the 'Open to work' feature on?

We go back to Freelance Informer and Computer weekly??

[SchumiStars]

Just done an interview. Java, 5 days onsite. 60k. After me, they had another 4 people to interview. 3 interview stages, with a tech test.

State of the market!

Please God! Need a job!

[Smoggy]

The actuarial contract market seems dead as well right now. Contract ending in December. Nothing much going on so taken a FTC until May. Good salary and benefits and hopefully things will have picked up a bit by then.

I don't really want to go perm but if I could get something with similar benefits as the FTC: £108k, 15% pension, 30 days holiday + bonus I'd consider it. Rates, tax and IR35 have chipped away at the contractor premium since I started out 10 years ago.

[avonleigh]

Just done an interview. Java, 5 days onsite. 60k. After me, they had another 4 people to interview. 3 interview stages, with a tech test.

State of the market!

Please God! Need a job!

Good luck. 3 interviews is nuts. I thought I had landed a really good permie job. Had second interview arranged for next week. Had to give a presentation, which I have prepared and it was ready to go. Got a call from agent yesterday to say they have found somebody. Very annoyed. Fair enough if that's before first interview or after. But to arrange second interviews and do this is really poor form. Not impressed. In a contract still but been looking for permie roles for 2 or 3 years. Only had one other interview in that time. Lost count of how many rejections I have had. Pretty much resigned to ever going permie now.

[SussexSeagull]

I have had a few phone calls and have an interview next week. Are things thawing out a bit?

[willendure]

Could be. Just seen 3 contracts in my area that I can apply for, and I have not seen anything at all in this vicinity for 2 whole months!!

[rocktronAMP]

Before the Budget 2024 Wednesday 30th October 2024

IT Risk Analyst
12 Month Contract
Hybrid (2 days a week in the office)
Financial Services
ASAP Start Date

My Financial Services client is currently seeking for an IT Risk Analyst to join the team.

Logistics:
- 12 Month Rolling Contract
- £375 p/d inside IR35
- Occasional visits to the london office (twice a week)

After the Budget 2024, the upswing is the Loan Charge Scandal will be reviewed again from LCAG, WTTG.
However, this does not help existing contractors with uncertainty.
This is for the record. We will the direction after the USA election by this time next week.