Is it only me who has a terrible experience with job portals? That is to say I am looking for a new contract.
Using the various sites and applying the filters results in a rubbish answer set. I now have written my own site queries to enable better quality answer set. The web site results are a joke! Shockingly bad quality - they cannot get a basic query right. On top of this they cannot get the alerts right as well. Even after I edit the alerts I still get permanent offers.
It seems they all use the same software deployed/configured badly/slight variations.
Also I find the alerts are all the "old" contract jobs (that are about to expire)! No point.
My other bug bear is that I search the sites every day for "new" jobs and when I apply I find often the job had been released several days before. You only get to see that when you review contract jobs applied for - then you see this not "new" advert date. So no chance of getting the opportunity. As one agent stated to me - we have to respond within 24 hours otherwise no chance of getting the client. So it is a waste of time.
Have others had the same experience?
Also looking at icontract and similar - it seems to be a racket. I do not like that my info becomes their data for ever (in T&Cs). Any opinions on this?
What are other contractors experience?
Using the various sites and applying the filters results in a rubbish answer set. I now have written my own site queries to enable better quality answer set. The web site results are a joke! Shockingly bad quality - they cannot get a basic query right. On top of this they cannot get the alerts right as well. Even after I edit the alerts I still get permanent offers.
It seems they all use the same software deployed/configured badly/slight variations.
Also I find the alerts are all the "old" contract jobs (that are about to expire)! No point.
My other bug bear is that I search the sites every day for "new" jobs and when I apply I find often the job had been released several days before. You only get to see that when you review contract jobs applied for - then you see this not "new" advert date. So no chance of getting the opportunity. As one agent stated to me - we have to respond within 24 hours otherwise no chance of getting the client. So it is a waste of time.
Have others had the same experience?
Also looking at icontract and similar - it seems to be a racket. I do not like that my info becomes their data for ever (in T&Cs). Any opinions on this?
What are other contractors experience?
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