State of the Market

[eek]

brutal honesty \0)

Only if you don't want to ever deal with the agent again...

[MonkeysUncle]

Search Radius

Out of curiosity
When searching on job boards (i.e. JobServe) what do you put for search radius (i.e. 50miles from this address)....and with COVID and more wfh, are you increasing that to cover more the UK?

[dsc]

On every job site I just search for the job type and leave the area blank, so it defaults to the whole of UK. Not that it matters as there's still ***** all in the results.

[hungry_hog]

heard about a fully remote contract at £400 pd via recruiter , I told them I'd do it for working 6:30 hrs per day, yet to hear back

not smart

you may be working 6.5 in practice (in fact I'm sure many people work less) but you don't tell the client that up front

[TheDogsNads]

heard about a fully remote contract at £400 pd via recruiter , I told them I'd do it for working 6:30 hrs per day, yet to hear back

Some free advice for you, never play poker. Or at least not until you know to keep your cards close to your chest.

[Old Greg]

Only if you don't want to ever deal with the agent again...

not smart

you may be working 6.5 in practice (in fact I'm sure many people work less) but you don't tell the client that up front

Some free advice for you, never play poker. Or at least not until you know to keep your cards close to your chest.

I suspect that founder was just trying to get rid of the agent.

[caffeine man]

a friend mentioned they had an interview request, but they were only hiring because they had been given a government grant.

One of the rules for that is that it could only be spent on "payroll and not contractors" so anybody who was hired had to go on payroll.

I'd not heard of this before - is it a thing? or just a way of cutting to the chase and saying "Inside or nothing"?

Probably done so the money did not go to foreign corporations, and is used to employ a Brit.


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[LondonManc]

a friend mentioned they had an interview request, but they were only hiring because they had been given a government grant.

One of the rules for that is that it could only be spent on "payroll and not contractors" so anybody who was hired had to go on payroll.

I'd not heard of this before - is it a thing? or just a way of cutting to the chase and saying "Inside or nothing"?

The more UK citizens working, the fewer are claiming - looks better for unemployment numbers. As a limited company contractor, you're simply in between contracts, you're not unemployed.

[founder]

Well, nothing back from that agent. Lesson learned guys. I'm too proud to take a pay cut.

[Paralytic]

Lesson learned guys.

That's good to hear - its a tough market out there.

I'm too proud to take a pay cut.

Er, that didn't last long....