OK, don't post much here these days, but thought I'd stick one on for people still looking and wondering what the state of the market is.
Basically, I spent 7 months looking around for a contract last year. Toughest I'd know it in 21 years of contracting. Eventually I took a 6 month'er in an Investment Bank. Unfortunately, I delivered on-time and on-budget, which meant the project was finished two weeks before my contract was due to expire. Client thanked me for all the hard work, but said they had no more budget and therefore couldn't extend beyond my end date. Oh well.
Well, this time around it's taken just 1 week of looking to land a new role. Another IB, and with a 10% rate increase over the last place. Also a much, much larger project, so hopefully more work there than the initial 6 months. We'll see.
Note that the IB's are *much* less fussy at the moment, as many try to scramble back all the staff they let go last year. I've had multiple agents tell me as much over the phone. If you get the chance of a role - even if you don't seem ideally suited - just go for it. I was less than ideal for the job I've just grabbed, but the client didn't seem at all fazed about it in the interview. It seems the ability to show some willing is starting to count for something once again in the contracting world.
Cheers,
Nomadd
Basically, I spent 7 months looking around for a contract last year. Toughest I'd know it in 21 years of contracting. Eventually I took a 6 month'er in an Investment Bank. Unfortunately, I delivered on-time and on-budget, which meant the project was finished two weeks before my contract was due to expire. Client thanked me for all the hard work, but said they had no more budget and therefore couldn't extend beyond my end date. Oh well.
Well, this time around it's taken just 1 week of looking to land a new role. Another IB, and with a 10% rate increase over the last place. Also a much, much larger project, so hopefully more work there than the initial 6 months. We'll see.
Note that the IB's are *much* less fussy at the moment, as many try to scramble back all the staff they let go last year. I've had multiple agents tell me as much over the phone. If you get the chance of a role - even if you don't seem ideally suited - just go for it. I was less than ideal for the job I've just grabbed, but the client didn't seem at all fazed about it in the interview. It seems the ability to show some willing is starting to count for something once again in the contracting world.
Cheers,
Nomadd
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