2024 Contracting Return!!

[SneakySimon]

So, back in 2015, after 15 odd years contracting, I went perm while my kids were young and ex left.

Fast forward 8 years, seems the bank I work for is potentially going to offer redundency next year which would be a nice pay off and allow me to return to the contracting life!

Feeling a bit rusty - where is a good place to search for contracts nowadays?

[northernladuk]

Jobserve and Linkedin. There are other smaller sites like PRS Public sector and Outside IR35 pages but I found this completely useless in the couple of weeks I was looking.

I can't remember seeing anything that was on linkedin but not on jobserve so I ended up really just focussing on jobserve which did what it does and got me in gig yet again. I hear noise about jobserve being less relevant but it's nailed it every single time for me in the last 15 years so still the go to place for me.

[SneakySimon]

Thanks - think I used to use Jobserve but had completly forgotten the name!

Thanks!!

[northernladuk]

Get yourself up to speed with the current IR35 legislation. You might be in for a shock to find nearly all banking/finance roles are inside IR35 so it isn't back to contracting as you knew it. You'll likely be employed by an umbrella so technically you'll be leaving perm to get back to being employed life.

[gables]

Jobserve and Linkedin. There are other smaller sites like PRS Public sector and Outside IR35 pages but I found this completely useless in the couple of weeks I was looking.

I can't remember seeing anything that was on linkedin but not on jobserve so I ended up really just focussing on jobserve which did what it does and got me in gig yet again. I hear noise about jobserve being less relevant but it's nailed it every single time for me in the last 15 years so still the go to place for me.

Agree with Jobserve, LinkedIn less so but that's down to me really. Would also add personal contacts, as secured this current role by that route and in this case it's a contact initially made over 20 years ago which I'm quite pleased about

[SussexSeagull]

Most of my contracts come through my network now. I tend to find Jobserve a bit of a lottery but I can imagine specialists might have a bit more luck out of it.

[sreed]

I'm a generalist tech PM - PSR and Reed have been good for me. The couple of recruiters that contacted me and discussed a relevant role after picking up my CV, they all came through Reed.

I found it terribly hard to search effectively on LinkedIn, though it was really easy to apply for roles once I'd identified a suitable one.

[ajw19]

I was looking for the past few weeks, I was using both JobServe and LinkedIn and was successful in the end with JobServe.

I'm not a huge fan of using LinkedIn for contracts, as mentioned above - the search functionality is poor and don't get me started on the actual typical content in my feed. There also seems to be far more obviously fake ads than I remember there being in the past.

[fiisch]

Get yourself up to speed with the current IR35 legislation. You might be in for a shock to find nearly all banking/finance roles are inside IR35 so it isn't back to contracting as you knew it. You'll likely be employed by an umbrella so technically you'll be leaving perm to get back to being employed life.

Insurance however (which is reasonably transferrable from banking), is mostly outside. Fortunately those risk adverse souls are happy to take a risk when it comes to IR35, it seems.

[Hairlocks]

I agree with the other replies. Jobserve for looking and applying. Get your own profile upto date on linkedin in though. Last gig found me on linkedin, I find more agents discover me looking on linkedin than on jobserve these days.