Public Sector Contractors

[marple]

I just got a PM role in Banking and all my past experience is Public Sector, can't believe my luck.

However I don't think the PS is dead and buried, they can't hire new staff and they are letting the dead wood go so projects will have to be run by contractors - I expect the days of rolling a contract over are gone, it will be in and out

[filthy1980]

I just got a PM role in Banking and all my past experience is Public Sector, can't believe my luck.

However I don't think the PS is dead and buried, they can't hire new staff and they are letting the dead wood go so projects will have to be run by contractors - I expect the days of rolling a contract over are gone, it will be in and out

congrats on that gig

banks must have widened their net, they have been recruiting like crazy

[Contractor UK]

Some tips in here might be helpful in relation to earlier posts How IT contractors go from public to private

[SimonMac]

I've just left a permmie job in the Public Sector after seeing them decimate the contractors, there are a lot of very unhappy people and I expect a lot more permmies to make the jump (not necassarily to Contracting) but the void will need to be filled somehow and short term, more reasonable contracts will still be there.

On a similar tact, how would I down play the PS part of my CV that has been my sole line of work for the last 10 years

[Clippy]

The Guardian covered this topic (public sector workers) recently.

[kandr]

Must have been a surprise that the public sector was going to dry up eh? I mean it's not as if they have been talking about massive cuts for the last year.

[gingerjedi]

I've just left a permmie job in the Public Sector after seeing them decimate the contractors, there are a lot of very unhappy people and I expect a lot more permmies to make the jump (not necassarily to Contracting) but the void will need to be filled somehow and short term, more reasonable contracts will still be there.

On a similar tact, how would I down play the PS part of my CV that has been my sole line of work for the last 10 years

Why would anyone leave a public sector job? Sit tight and wait for the inflated pay off shirley?

[Mr.Whippy]

Must have been a surprise that the public sector was going to dry up eh?

If only it'd been so obvious to you that, just like public sector work, your fuel tank was going to dry up too.

[SimonMac]

Why would anyone leave a public sector job? Sit tight and wait for the inflated pay off shirley?

I had to leave as I was moving from Exeter back to Leeds

(and don't call me Shirley)