Originally posted by KentDogWalker
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Originally posted by hungry_hog View Post
LinkedIn is much better than both
Maintain a good profile that succinctly summarises your experience, curate good quality connections (don't be afraid to cull people) and occasionally pay for premium when you're job hunting to increase your back end exposure to recruiters - it also allows you to message people you're not connected to which can be very handy. Premium is a month by month thing so you only pay for the period you need and then cancel when you've got a gig. It's an allowable expense for advertising your business.Comment
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Originally posted by KentDogWalker View PostSo what is better now for juicy contracts, CWJobs or CV library?Comment
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Well after all my moaning about there being no proper Workday roles - I have been contacted about 3 recently - all purporting to be outside. If this keeps up it shouldn't be too long before I can return to contracting - yippee!
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Agent calls me about a gig. Sounds good, rate good. I respond to his email with right to represent at the given rate we agreed on the phone call. I clearly write this figure in my right to represent.
Smashed the interview.
Agent now asks if I’d take a lower rate as he’s not sure they can afford it. Wants to book 2nd interview. Can I shave a bit off?
What shall I do?
bend over…Give in
ask him to bend over? Give him the boot
walk away silently, ghost him
Tut loudly
play a violin
hire a hitman
ask my accountant
send a substitute
send my lawyer
Sign on
Other?
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Originally posted by CheeseSlice View PostAgent calls me about a gig. Sounds good, rate good. I respond to his email with right to represent at the given rate we agreed on the phone call. I clearly write this figure in my right to represent.
Smashed the interview.
Agent now asks if I’d take a lower rate as he’s not sure they can afford it. Wants to book 2nd interview. Can I shave a bit off?
What shall I do?
bend over…Give in
ask him to bend over? Give him the boot
walk away silently, ghost him
Tut loudly
play a violin
hire a hitman
ask my accountant
send a substitute
send my lawyer
Sign on
Other?Comment
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Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
I'd be asking why the client agreed to interview you at a rate they couldn't afford and whether the agent thinks you were born yesterday.Comment
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SQL Server developer and DBA roles seem to have taken a dive in the last few weeks, both in terms of rate and numbers of roles.
e.g. today:
https://www.jobserve.com/gb/en/searc...CEA58C50ECABA/
£225 - 275 per Day (albeit outside IR35).
Things seem to have moved to the cloud, of which I have a couple of years of Databricks Spark SQL experience, but no python. Will need to learn python and start blagging experience in it I guessComment
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Originally posted by CheeseSlice View PostAgent calls me about a gig. Sounds good, rate good. I respond to his email with right to represent at the given rate we agreed on the phone call. I clearly write this figure in my right to represent.
Smashed the interview.
Agent now asks if I’d take a lower rate as he’s not sure they can afford it. Wants to book 2nd interview. Can I shave a bit off?
What shall I do?
bend over…Give in
ask him to bend over? Give him the boot
walk away silently, ghost him
Tut loudly
play a violin
hire a hitman
ask my accountant
send a substitute
send my lawyer
Sign on
Other?Comment
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