Must Stop Looking At Jobserve!

**scooterscot** · 13 June 2011, 11:45

Never used jobserve in my 12 years of contracting.

**SimonMac** · 13 June 2011, 11:46

Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

Never used jobserve in my 12 years of contracting.

What do you use?

I find most of the sites are pretty similar for gauging the market

**MarillionFan** · 13 June 2011, 11:51

Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

Never used jobserve in my 12 years of contracting.

I've used Jobserve for most of my contracts (maybe 30 in total)

**northernladuk** · 13 June 2011, 12:08

Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

Ever since I got told that my contract is getting cut short I have been seeing gigs that I can't apply for as I am here for another 7 weeks!

LOL I keep doing that just to keep an eye on the market even though I am in a long contract and there is always one closer to home and more money that I could do with my eyes shut. Still guts me when that happens!

**nomadd** · 13 June 2011, 20:44

Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post

I've used Jobserve for most of my contracts (maybe 30 in total)

This^

**istvan** · 26 August 2011, 12:55

Hi, I keep applying for jobs on jobserve and the "Views" statistics or "Downloads" have not changed a bit during the last 3 weeks. Is there no activity in August at all, or simply my applications do not even get to the agents? Any other jobserve type sites that someone could recommend?

**NorthWestPerm2Contr** · 26 August 2011, 13:16

Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

LOL I keep doing that just to keep an eye on the market even though I am in a long contract and there is always one closer to home and more money that I could do with my eyes shut. Still guts me when that happens!

The market is really confusing me these days. I am getting calls about roles offering up to 450/day locally - rates I have never seen before oop north. I thought only London offered rates like that? On the other hand they are cutting permies and contractors in banks left right and centre.... Market seems totally messed up at the moment. Always best to just be content with what you have otherwise you will never be happy.

**craig1** · 26 August 2011, 13:58

Jobserve's worth to me went downhill hugely about a year or so ago when they decided to stop allowing people to sign up to a full daily dump of all their jobs via an emailed CSV. I had a nice Excel template that I could dump the CSV into that sorted the jobs based on my criteria and allowed me to filter far more accurately than the website ever could. It also gave me a very good insight into the market itself as I could keep an eye on jobs like mine and what the agencies were pimping them out at. It gave me a huge amount of information in 2-3 minutes of effort that the site just can't and won't do.

I suppose there must have been a good commercial reason why they discontinued this...

Must Stop Looking At Jobserve!