State of the Market

[SchumiStars]

Did an interview and it was clear they had not even opened my CV.

2 days onsite in sunny Stevange.

Happens when there are too many candidates and they just stiffle through a load of standard questions looking for the right answers.

No signs of recovery from what I can see and I can imagine at least another 12mths of this. But that is if there ever will be a recovery.

It could be that, this is how it is now, a reality which we will have to endure.

[TheDude]

You've clearly not worked at some of the big pretentious places I have!

Besides, it's not just about looking good in the office, it's about looking and feeling good full stop. Taking pride in one's appearance, seeing the birds on the train undressing you with their eyes. Lol.

You cant have lasted long at any high profile firm if you referred to women as 'birds'.

[TheDude]

2K per day you say...?



qh

Why would you hire someone for a strategic position on a 3 month contract?

[TheDude]

I struggle to remember the last contract I got through applying through Jobserve (or anywhere else for that matter). Everything I have had in the last few years has been agents coming to me. Sadly a lot of those agents aren't agenting anymore.

I have noticed that I get far fewer calls from agents but when I do they are engaging in a lot more smalltalk - as if they have nothing else to do.

[oliverson]

You cant have lasted long at any high profile firm if you referred to women as 'birds'.

I'm a contractor, I go in, see the project out then leave. It can be anything from 1 month to the one I just finished (3.5 years). I'm also from a generation when men were men so a bird is a bird in my book, but only if she's decent looking, otherwise she's a minger!

[Bluenose]

Why would you hire someone for a strategic position on a 3 month contract?

the perm hire is probably on gardening leave/non-compete and the previous CTO bailed or was 'escorted from the building by security'.

3 month role is to help ensure internal corporate governance checks dont fail i.e. they need a bum on a seat fast that wont burn the building down.

[sadkingbilly]

I'm a contractor, I go in, see the project out then leave. It can be anything from 1 month to the one I just finished (3.5 years). I'm also from a generation when men were chauvinistic arseholes so a bird is a bird in my book, but only if she's decent looking, otherwise she's a minger!

that scans better IMHO

[Dorkeaux]

the perm hire is probably on gardening leave/non-compete and the previous CTO bailed or was 'escorted from the building by security'.

3 month role is to help ensure internal corporate governance checks dont fail i.e. they need a bum on a seat fast that wont burn the building down.

Probably that.

I was once brought in as an interim head of department for exactly this reason.
Unfortunately, the department had been headless for months and _was_ burning to the ground.

Great gig, I got to find and hire my successor.
Unfortunately, it didn't pay any more than the more usual grunt roles I take.

What is it about that? I really don't find much difference in rate between the senior technical leadership roles and architecture / development roles I get offered.

[northernladuk]

2K per day you say...?



qh

I thought roles at this level were considered office holders or something like that meaning they generally cannot be outside IR35.

[Yuri F]

No contractor is going to pay £5 to apply for a role. I make hundreds of applications so this would cost me a lot of money. All this would do is make more people go permie.

Let them dream about another unrealistic utopia.