I'm just wondering how many agencies / direct clients people are in contact with regularly or irregularly and have been in contact with in the past.
Obviously it's better not to use the scatter far and wide method as the primary means of contract hunting, but many of my contracts have came out of the blue, these agents have contacted me before so no harm in updating most of them.
I recently planned to update agencies with new CVs but my e-mail client was in a bit of a mess with e-mails from hundreds of agents, all in the one folder. I'd no idea what revision of which CV I had sent them last.
I created a folder in my mail client for each agency (and direct client or employer) I have received any e-maill from, though I intend to data mine the enquiries book for agencies that call. The date of the last update is incorporated in the folder name.
My mail client doesn;t sit too comfortably with so many folders and crashes quite often (need more RAM) but that's a small temporary price to pay for revision control, a bit of order and being able to identify most frequent and most useful contacts.
A meaningless by-product of this exercise is I have a count of agencies.
5 - Agents who regularly and repeatedly contact me and place me
7 - Direct clients
86 - Local Agencies (various disciplines)
318 - Agencies UK wide and overseas subsidiaries. (various disciplines)
28 - Recent registrations (comms/IT and engineering)
10 - Agencies I can get a quick, no fuss no interview start through ... if they have anything
2 - Stop Listed agencies (unpaid for work)
49 - Job sites I'm registered on (some are aliases of others eg Absolute Comms / Jobsite)
7 Jobseekers
Not sure where they got my e-mail address from but I suspect some newletters, Usenet or an agent not hiding recipents e-mail addresses from each other. I receive a few a week for several months, I wish I hadn't deleted the rest as I could use ideas from other peoples' CVs.
114 Agencies dissolved since 2001.
Rather a lot of them dissolved during the recovery from the telco / 'dotcom 'crash, maybe they were unable to finance their growth?
Obviously it's better not to use the scatter far and wide method as the primary means of contract hunting, but many of my contracts have came out of the blue, these agents have contacted me before so no harm in updating most of them.
I recently planned to update agencies with new CVs but my e-mail client was in a bit of a mess with e-mails from hundreds of agents, all in the one folder. I'd no idea what revision of which CV I had sent them last.
I created a folder in my mail client for each agency (and direct client or employer) I have received any e-maill from, though I intend to data mine the enquiries book for agencies that call. The date of the last update is incorporated in the folder name.
My mail client doesn;t sit too comfortably with so many folders and crashes quite often (need more RAM) but that's a small temporary price to pay for revision control, a bit of order and being able to identify most frequent and most useful contacts.
A meaningless by-product of this exercise is I have a count of agencies.
5 - Agents who regularly and repeatedly contact me and place me
7 - Direct clients
86 - Local Agencies (various disciplines)
318 - Agencies UK wide and overseas subsidiaries. (various disciplines)
28 - Recent registrations (comms/IT and engineering)
10 - Agencies I can get a quick, no fuss no interview start through ... if they have anything
2 - Stop Listed agencies (unpaid for work)
49 - Job sites I'm registered on (some are aliases of others eg Absolute Comms / Jobsite)
7 Jobseekers
Not sure where they got my e-mail address from but I suspect some newletters, Usenet or an agent not hiding recipents e-mail addresses from each other. I receive a few a week for several months, I wish I hadn't deleted the rest as I could use ideas from other peoples' CVs.
114 Agencies dissolved since 2001.
Rather a lot of them dissolved during the recovery from the telco / 'dotcom 'crash, maybe they were unable to finance their growth?
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