State of the Market

[willendure]

I don't understand politics.If I wanted, I would be on a poltical platform, reading and learning.

However this is site for contractors. I would prefer if we could keep to the current state of the market please.

Market is dead. No-one will employ Schumi. He will feel better if he gets to have a good whinge about though!

[NotAllThere]

@Mods NotAllThere this thread needs sorted out.

I'll be deleting every thread post the quoted one that is off topic or

If you want to discuss the political reasons for the state of the market, I suggest you start a thread in General. Oh and there's a Brexit subforum if you want to rehash all those arguments.

[quackhandle]

Arguing on the interwebs has to be THE biggest waste of time ever.

You are not going to change a person's opinion no matter how many times you post, resort to name calling, even if it is in CAPS or a fancy font.

So there.


On topic edit: tulipty pimps are still CV harvesting - take a bow Fruition IT.

qh

[Dorkeaux]

Arguing on the interwebs has to be THE biggest waste of time ever.

You are not going to change a person's opinion no matter how many times you post, resort to name calling, even if it is in CAPS or a fancy font.

So there.


On topic edit: tulipty pimps are still CV harvesting - take a bow Fruition IT.

qh

Agreed.

Regarding CV harvesting, do you mean tulipy pimps getting a copy of your CV by pretending to possibly put you forward for a role, but instead assembling a "virtual team" to bid on work?

If so, why should that bother you? It's getting your CV distributed, all to the good I should think.

Am I missing the point? There are probably a lot of my CVs out there in various versions.

[Bluenose]

I'll be deleting every thread post the quoted one that is off topic or

If you want to discuss the political reasons for the state of the market, I suggest you start a thread in General. Oh and there's a Brexit subforum if you want to rehash all those arguments.

Thankyou!

[quackhandle]

Agreed.

Regarding CV harvesting, do you mean tulipy pimps getting a copy of your CV by pretending to possibly put you forward for a role, but instead assembling a "virtual team" to bid on work?

If so, why should that bother you? It's getting your CV distributed, all to the good I should think.

Am I missing the point? There are probably a lot of my CVs out there in various versions.

No, posting a gig on jobserve for a few days that you could do in your sleep, is outside, 6M fully remote, decent rate then it disappears.

qh

[kingmob]

Anybody find Total Jobs a useful resource for contracts?

I started getting emails from them, not sure how that happened, and what they were sending was not right for me. But that led to visiting the site and changing the search params to contracts in my skillset and seeing that there appears to be quite a few on there that are not coming in my jobserve feeds.

For comparison, I currently have 0 ads in Scotland on jobserve, and in the last 1 day, total jobs has 7.

Just makes me wonder, what else I might be missing accross all the various possible platforms for finding job ads.

I have alerts from Jobserve, Reed, Total jobs, Monster(though very little coming from there ), Freework (used to be Technojobs?), Hays, Linkedin FTC seem to be making a comeback?

Total jobs seems to be posting a lot more direct jobs from employers, just not great at removing them after the closing date in my experience? But then I cant say Linkedin are any better for that?

[willendure]

Total jobs seems to be posting a lot more direct jobs from employers, just not great at removing them after the closing date in my experience? But then I cant say Linkedin are any better for that?

I see - You mean the alerts they send out might not even be fresh adverts? Their filtering, search and alerting features are not very well implemented. Still, intrigued by seeing things on there I am not seeing elsewhere.

[kingmob]

VAT on private schools is not richly deserved. Do you realise home schooling comes under private schooling? More and more parents are home schooling cos state education is failing them. These are normal working class parents not rich people.

Home schooling is exempt from VAT. Private School Fees are not, because they don't deserve special treatment. Its a service.

Items purchased for home schooling do get charged VAT.

I do take the point that some of the parents sending their children to private schools might struggle to afford it with the new VAT charge. Educating your kids at Private School is mostly a choice. For the parents of children in the Forces the CEA rates have been recalculated but so has the parental contribution.

[oliverson]

Is there some kind of time wasting craze going on in recruitment that I'm unaware of?

Another opportunity pinged my way on LinkedIn, followed by an actual telephone call. All sounded very promising and the client moves quickly. 3 days later and sweet f**k all.

This is all that seems to happen these days. I vow not to be part of it again and to stay retired, work on my own stuff, and then it happens, another ping. So I look at the spec. and it's pretty close but it's been several months now since I worked with any of that tech., so off I go and start doing a refresher, then the 'opportunity' dissipates. AGAIN!

Rinse and repeat.