If you are not getting interviews

[nomadd]

Jobs go on JS after the agents have already called contractors about them. By the time it appears on JS, its normally too late.

My last 5 gig's (including the current one) all came via Jobserve. That's 7 years worth of contracts. I have no idea what so many people on here have against it? It's free, and it's landed me loads of work. (And no, I don't own shares in them! )

I've asked several times around here for alternatives, and no-one has ever come up with anything (well, apart from the obvious: phone your ex-managers!) Oh, and LinkedIn, which was an utter waste of time (i.e. an agent's playground and nothing else.)

[BolshieBastard]

My last 5 gig's (including the current one) all came via Jobserve. That's 7 years worth of contracts. I have no idea what so many people on here have against it? It's free, and it's landed me loads of work. (And no, I don't own shares in them! )

I've asked several times around here for alternatives, and no-one has ever come up with anything (well, apart from the obvious: phone your ex-managers!) Oh, and LinkedIn, which was an utter waste of time (i.e. an agent's playground and nothing else.)

******* hell, are you obtuse or what!? The market has been good for the last 5 of the previous 7 years! My last 3.5 year contract didnt come from jobswerve. It came via the agent phoning me. Strange enough, the short contract I had before that didnt come from jobswerve either. The agent phoned me.

The only problem I see with jobswerve is that in markets like they are now, lots of jobs are advertised after the agents have their three cvs.

Today I received another call by an agent for a job I didnt apply for on jobswerve but had sent my cv off to them god knows when.

[nomadd]

******* hell, are you obtuse or what!?

Thanks for constantly placing your personality at the start of such responses, that way I can stop reading them after the first two words...
(NB. We covered the "bolshie" by name, bolshie by nature last week. Or are you just "obtuse"?)

And from another thread you posted in today:

I was also contacted by a former colleague about someone doing a telephone interview with me today. Didnt happen for some reason.

That'll be your personality, again.

Then out of the blue this evening, agent phones me about a role they contacted me about a good 2 weeks ago. Cllient wants to do a telephone interview late thursday or friday!

Hint: Try to lose the obnoxious attitude for 30 minutes or so during the interview: it'll help no end.

Feet on ground.....................

.......and head from out of backside.

[BolshieBastard]

Thanks for constantly placing your personality at the start of such responses, that way I can stop reading them after the first two words...
(NB. We covered the "bolshie" by name, bolshie by nature last week. Or are you just "obtuse"?)

And from another thread you posted in today:



That'll be your personality, again.



Hint: Try to lose the obnoxious attitude for 30 minutes or so during the interview: it'll help no end.



.......and head from out of backside.

**** me, you take this internet lark seriously, dont you!?

Its a ******* WEB FORUM! How's about you take your head out of your arse and stop taking it soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo seriously?

[norrahe]

[SueEllen]

WSS

Mind you little boys like fighting over nothing.

[nomadd]

**** me, you take this internet lark seriously, dont you!?

...Stop trying to wriggle out of it with claims of "seriousness". Your not fooling anyone, you little troll, you.

Still, that's quits for me. Unfortunately this forum seems these days to be populated by "noisy" out-of-work timewasters like yourself. Any polite, sensible and professional discussion over contracting issues is few and far between. Time for me to move on.

To everyone else: best of luck in your future contracting careers. (And apologies for the dumb reply Bolshie is bound to grant this post. Fortunately I won't be around to see it. )

Signing out,

Nommad

[Francko]

I guess it all depends on what type of skills you got.

If you have rare niche skills then jobserve or linkedin are more than enough I'd say. If you have common skills, though, then you'd better network through people so that you have less competition for the place.

I don't know about you but I always find interviews a very big question mark. There were periods where I got all jobs and other periods where I failed consistently most of the interviews. I just think that it's more or less like a penalty shoot-out in football, sure it proves that you can be concentrated and focused but also that you have had lots of luck. Oh, and it does not mean that you can play a better football.