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What is your #1 challenge preventing you from doing contract work in UK right now?
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Originally posted by billybiro View PostRepeating that same fabricated mantra like a broken record doesn't make it true.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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Originally posted by billybiro View PostRepeating that same fabricated mantra like a broken record doesn't make it true.Comment
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Originally posted by davidbieder View PostHi,
My name is David and I am a Java developer from Berlin. Three years ago I made the big move to London in order to work as a contractor for different companies in UK.
Currently I am working as an entrepreneur on a potential business idea and was wondering if there are by any chance any other IT professionals here, who are thinking about coming to UK?
What is your #1 single biggest challenge preventing you from doing some contract work in UK right now?
Cheers,
DavidComment
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Originally posted by GB9 View PostI thought all the jobs in Germany paid more than here so why would anyone want to come over?Comment
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Originally posted by GB9 View PostI thought all the jobs in Germany paid more than here so why would anyone want to come over?"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by uk contractor View PostIts 100% true otherwise I would not make the statement you sound like someone who is fabricating the truth to suit your own agenda & or benefiting directly from it. There are tens of thousands of unemployed UK IT contractors not prepared to be exploited financially sitting on the bench & millions of prepared to be exploited as its better than nothing foreign IT contractors filling these roles. Does not take a genius to work out that this undermines the UK IT staff at every level perm or contract as employers have access to a virtually unlimited exploitable IT workforce! Go work in Poland or India see how you like those rate apples!!Comment
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Originally posted by billybiro View PostYou're making the false assumption that if we "drain the swamp" (as you put it) of those "prepared-to-be-exploited" low paid foreign IT workers that the work left will be given to the remaining UK IT workers who are demanding significantly higher rates. It won't. That work will follow those low paid foreign IT workers who have now gone back to their home countries of Poland, India etc.The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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Originally posted by billybiro View PostYou're making the false assumption that if we "drain the swamp" (as you put it) of those "prepared-to-be-exploited" low paid foreign IT workers that the work left will be given to the remaining UK IT workers who are demanding significantly higher rates. It won't. That work will follow those low paid foreign IT workers who have now gone back to their home countries of Poland, India etc.
The problem is not trying to compete on rate though. The problem is to actually get an interview. We have had an example on here where agents are only putting forward people from India, no doubt because they think they can get a bigger cut.
I suspect outsourcing is probably a bigger problem for all of us (and that is practically impossible to do anything about) but immigration is a factor.Comment
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Originally posted by uk contractor View PostUK does not and has not had an IT talent shortage for many years so time to drain the swamp & close the borders..............Comment
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