Ridiculous rates in London?

[GillsMan]

I saw SII BA rates at £800pd just two weeks ago on Jobserve. Maybe they've just all been filled?

While it's not my bag, I did just land a bit of direct work developing some Solvency II e-learning for a client, which I've recently finished and invoiced for. Nice easy money (probably worked out at around £150ph) and I now get to put "Solvency II" on my CV and LinkedIn. Schweet.

[SueEllen]

True, I need to toughen up! Working on it at the moment and its taking time. Permie to contracting is not a cake walk I am sure. There are a lot more things to get used to apart from the daily rate !!

Its not actually about 1 bad rate. There are plenty of roles in £300s at the moment. I applied for some this morning on Jobserve and had a few Indian guys call me to discuss it. They hardly knew anything about the role - asked a few irrelevant questions and told me they are putting my CV forward. They have no clue who their end client is. This is crazy!

You need to set your day you so you spend a couple of hours spread out during the day applying on the job boards - then you need to get out of the house in between plus have something to occupy yourself like learning something. Doing some exercise in the middle of the day works so do DIY projects.

This is why you only give people your mobile number and make sure your voicemail works.

You also need to get it into your head a lot of the calls you will get will be time wasters and bulltulipters.

[Wanderer]

Solvency-II market is VERY dry at the moment. Not a single BA role in London!

You sound fairly specialised in what you do and on a reasonably high rate. My thinking about jobs at this level is that it's as much who you know as what you know. Get your little black book of contacts out (or Linked-in or whatever) and try and get back in touch with some them. Offer to take them out for lunch or a drink after work (with you buying) and see what they are up to. Be upbeat and positive in your dealings with them but make it clear that if they have anything coming up then you'd love to work with the team again.

Anyway coming to the point, I've seen this today. £200 a day in London???? and several roles around the £300 mark. Depressing!!

Don't let it get to you. They are probably advertising something like this so they can then justify importing someone from overseas on a work visa because they can't recruit anyone in the UK.

As others say, make a plan to keep yourself occupied. Don't drift aimlessly through the day. Stay focused, set time for jobserve, tapping contacts, etc. I find that some self study towards a new qualification is a great thing to do because people will always ask "what are you doing right now?" and answering that you are doing some study or working on a project is a much more positive response than saying that you are just bumming around looking at jobswerve.

Good luck, be brave.

[alreadypacked]

True, I need to toughen up! Working on it at the moment and its taking time. Permie to contracting is not a cake walk I am sure. There are a lot more things to get used to apart from the daily rate !!

Its not actually about 1 bad rate. There are plenty of roles in £300s at the moment. I applied for some this morning on Jobserve and had a few Indian guys call me to discuss it. They hardly knew anything about the role - asked a few irrelevant questions and told me they are putting my CV forward. They have no clue who their end client is. This is crazy!

My advise would be Don't apply for role with a bad rate, you are just wasting your time!
You will see other roles with a lot better rates, apply for them when they come along.
Otherwise you will be in a bad role on a bad rate and will not be able too.

Also you are judged on where you have worked, if you have worked for crap companies on crap rates, it is assumed it is because you are crap.

Don't make that mistake!

[Stan.goodvibes]

You really need to grow some kahuna's. I mentioned this slightly less likely in another one of your threads.

You see one bad rate, you can't go all tearful and upset about that, it happens, it is business, someone will try and take the piss, it always happens.

Your job is to know your market, know your rate, know your clients etc and rise above this rather than getting all upset again. You are a business now. Deal with it.

As I said before. You have have to get a bit tougher if you are gonna cut it contracting. God help you when you get on the wrong side of the client and he walks you. You are gonna have heart attack.

Dude, why don't you just start a sticky thread called 'NorthernLadUKs Standard Reply' and put the above quote in it, or one of the only slightly differerent variations on the above which are pretty much all your posts ever are? *yawn*

Then you would never have to post again

[cojak]

Maybe that's because there's been a lot of newbies asking the same kind of question?

[psychocandy]

Dude, why don't you just start a sticky thread called 'NorthernLadUKs Standard Reply' and put the above quote in it, or one of the only slightly differerent variations on the above which are pretty much all your posts ever are? *yawn*

Then you would never have to post again

Remember the cartoon in Viz comic with the lad with the large nads? (cant remember the name).

I reckon NLUKs Kahunas are that big....

[TheFaQQer]

Remember the cartoon in Viz comic with the lad with the large nads? (cant remember the name).

I reckon NLUKs Kahunas are that big....

Buster Gonad (NSFW)