Hi
I was let go (company closed down) in January 2010 from a 3 year contract in Central London. I was a Technical Director looking after the general IT management as well as a Java/Oracle platform of a small ish mobile company. I have 15 years experience in technical project management in internet / mobile sectors, most of which was spent in my own company. I have also worked around the world as a consultant building tech teams. I was earning £100k++. I have never worked in companies bigger than 60.
I have been looking for new roles but just so many people going for the same that its taking forever to get any offers, and after six months not sure i can cope sitting at home for much longer. Tried all my black book of contacts, and getting the we are not doing anything at the moment in terms of new hires, its a big black book and shocked i could not find anything. Never found myself in this position before.
The wife took over mortgage from this month plus all bills once my war chest expired and we "just" survive, very different from last year.
So question is what next ?
I have a MCSE2000, and certified Watchguard & Prince2 I have not coded in 10 years (Delphi / Visual Basic / ColdFusion) as have had teams of people to do that for me. very technically aware, just lost some of the hands of skills. I would say hands on desktop / server i could do in Windows / Mac support.
So if you were a ex technical director, pretty hands off due to having people to do that part what would you do ? take a £40k systems job ? The problem is dont have valid MCSE etc Also they will know from CV that over qualified and will leave once I can get a better role.
Project Management roles I am finding are in big companies, which have little experience. Lost two jobs (during interview stage) due to that, they felt that as I had not worked in a "project office" before that other people that had that background and so passed me over.
I am sure I am not the only person running into the same issues .... any advice? Thanks
I was let go (company closed down) in January 2010 from a 3 year contract in Central London. I was a Technical Director looking after the general IT management as well as a Java/Oracle platform of a small ish mobile company. I have 15 years experience in technical project management in internet / mobile sectors, most of which was spent in my own company. I have also worked around the world as a consultant building tech teams. I was earning £100k++. I have never worked in companies bigger than 60.
I have been looking for new roles but just so many people going for the same that its taking forever to get any offers, and after six months not sure i can cope sitting at home for much longer. Tried all my black book of contacts, and getting the we are not doing anything at the moment in terms of new hires, its a big black book and shocked i could not find anything. Never found myself in this position before.
The wife took over mortgage from this month plus all bills once my war chest expired and we "just" survive, very different from last year.
So question is what next ?
I have a MCSE2000, and certified Watchguard & Prince2 I have not coded in 10 years (Delphi / Visual Basic / ColdFusion) as have had teams of people to do that for me. very technically aware, just lost some of the hands of skills. I would say hands on desktop / server i could do in Windows / Mac support.
So if you were a ex technical director, pretty hands off due to having people to do that part what would you do ? take a £40k systems job ? The problem is dont have valid MCSE etc Also they will know from CV that over qualified and will leave once I can get a better role.
Project Management roles I am finding are in big companies, which have little experience. Lost two jobs (during interview stage) due to that, they felt that as I had not worked in a "project office" before that other people that had that background and so passed me over.
I am sure I am not the only person running into the same issues .... any advice? Thanks
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