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Originally posted by kaiser78 View PostPostage would cost a fortune...Comment
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My LinkedIn feed seems to be full of recruiters with contracts at the moment, has anyone tried iContract?Comment
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Originally posted by uk contractor View PostIts not just you the IT market for several roles (generic support & dev & PM roles especially) has been poor for a long time. Read here backwards to get a flavour of that http://forums.contractoruk.com/busin...arket-135.html
....but a lot of it is down to what you do. Unless you have a niche skillset right now its a very tough job market probably the hardest its been since post 2001.
Experience is less attractive right now to many clients it seems to boil down to rate first then experience 2nd due to how many foreign IT workers are here & happy to take lower rates which then dilutes future rates as many agents look and see what rates were offered in recent job ads before basing their rate card on that for the current ad! Which leads to constantly diminishing returns for the IT contractor obviously!!
Having said that I got replaced by a permie last week and I haven't had a phone interview yet despite speaking to ~8 recruitment agents. A little bit scary compared to my other experiences.Comment
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Originally posted by Darren at DynamoAccounts View PostMy LinkedIn feed seems to be full of recruiters with contracts at the moment, has anyone tried iContract?Comment
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Originally posted by Darren at DynamoAccounts View Posthas anyone tried iContract?Comment
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Originally posted by Smackdown View PostI'm not sure I'd go that far, there was the small issue of the 'great recession'.
Having said that I got replaced by a permie last week and I haven't had a phone interview yet despite speaking to ~8 recruitment agents. A little bit scary compared to my other experiences.Comment
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Sounds like we're all doing pretty much the same thing, but the roles just don't seem to be there.
I'm thinking my CV might be too specific and needs to be generalised a little to open up further opportunities.Comment
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Originally posted by jmercer View PostSounds like we're all doing pretty much the same thing, but the roles just don't seem to be there.Comment
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