How are people finding the market at the moment

[reach4thelasers]

I'm a highly experienced .NET developer but not getting any responses from my applications.

I had a big fall out with my last recruitment consultant who tried to withhold my pay for a month - resulting in him getting dragged down to the office and getting a total bollocking from the CEO who threatened him with dissolution of their professional relationship.

I'm kinda worried he blacklisted me or something out of spite. I've heard there's an underground illegal blacklist that all recruitment consultants share.

Or am I just being paranoid - is the market slow right now? I'm really worried to be honest with you.

[contractoralan]

am I just being paranoid

Yes

[kaiser78]

I'm a highly experienced .NET developer but not getting any responses from my applications.

I had a big fall out with my last recruitment consultant who tried to withhold my pay for a month - resulting in him getting dragged down to the office and getting a total bollocking from the CEO who threatened him with dissolution of their professional relationship.

I'm kinda worried he blacklisted me or something out of spite. I've heard there's an underground illegal blacklist that all recruitment consultants share.Or am I just being paranoid - is the market slow right now? I'm really worried to be honest with you.

Where have you heard that from ???

[SimonMac]

I'm a highly experienced .NET developer but not getting any responses from my applications.

I had a big fall out with my last recruitment consultant who tried to withhold my pay for a month - resulting in him getting dragged down to the office and getting a total bollocking from the CEO who threatened him with dissolution of their professional relationship.

I'm kinda worried he blacklisted me or something out of spite. I've heard there's an underground illegal blacklist that all recruitment consultants share.

Or am I just being paranoid - is the market slow right now? I'm really worried to be honest with you.

First rule abound underground illegal blacklist is you don't talk about the underground illegal blacklist!

On a serious note if a pimp reckons they can make money from you they will, try rewording your CV, opening up your location a bit further

[nomadd]

I've heard there's an underground illegal blacklist that all recruitment consultants share.

And seriously,



EDIT: The market has gone a bit quieter, I've found. Still a reasonable number of roles around, though.

[craig1]

The August - early September window is always quiet in my experience. Nowt new in it, just the contracting market.

[The Agents View]

First rule abound underground illegal blacklist is you don't talk about the underground illegal blacklist!

On a serious note if a pimp reckons they can make money from you they will, try rewording your CV, opening up your location a bit further

For the record:

There is no illegal blacklist.
There is no "above board" blacklist
Sharing information with the competition is a BIIIIG no no.

All of this is in my personal experience, and to my personal knowledge, and you can bend me over at a paintballing event, and shoot my ring point blank, if you can prove otherwise.

If you find a list like that, let me know, as I'm clearly missing out!

[rd409]

Well, I had a fall out with one of the agent. At that time, it seems that I will be getting no more work from that channel. Fortunately, 6 months down the line, the same guy called me with a potential gig.

Moral of the story : There are no permanent enemies in this field, as long as they can make some commission out of you, and you can get some lucrative gigs out of them.

[BolshieBastard]

Market is patchy except in and around the smoke, imo.

TBH, you need to be in regular contact with agents. The 3 interviews I secured (2 of which I got job offers and have decided on one) were as a result of direct agent contact. Apps through jobswerve where just that, applications with no end result.

[PropertyCrashUK]

Market very quiet for TA work in the UK. US, Europe and Oz seems surprisingly buoyant and am seriously beginning about making the move.

Can't see the UK picking up any time as corporate are not making money so they ain't spending and public sector is supposedly stopping spending on IT - saying that, seems to be lots of public sector PM roles.

Banks are laying off loads of people - thousands - so imagine there is some knock on for banking IT.