How bad is it?

[walshy]

As a past contractor who went perm but now is being forced out of his job, how bad is it out there?

Reading through a lot of the posts there looks like theres a fair few skilled people out there struggling to find the roles?

As a side question, whats the typical interview process for a role now-a-days? 1 interview, 2? Competency based/pure techinical etc?

Been out of the game for 10 years so looking for an insight. Cheers.

[BolshieBastard]

As a past contractor who went perm but now is being forced out of his job, how bad is it out there?

Reading through a lot of the posts there looks like theres a fair few skilled people out there struggling to find the roles?

As a side question, whats the typical interview process for a role now-a-days? 1 interview, 2? Competency based/pure techinical etc?

Been out of the game for 10 years so looking for an insight. Cheers.

Depends what your specialism is, where you are, how far you are prepared to travel, what rate you are after.

I think the market is 'difficult' all year round now and you have to be flexible in both rate and location. I know one contractor who has been out since May last year, Myself I've only been on the bench for a total of 4 months in 4 and a bit years but I consider myself fortunate.

[AndrewK]

I would say .NET banking sector in London is almost dead.

[JamJarST]

Like others have said it really does depend on what your skill set is. You can't really expect us to be able to answer the question do you? I can tell you that their seems to be a decent amount of contracts for SAP FI/CO consultants, rates are down a little but still doable.

[Scrag Meister]

[nomadd]

As a past contractor who went perm but now is being forced out of his job, how bad is it out there?

Reading through a lot of the posts there looks like theres a fair few skilled people out there struggling to find the roles?

As a side question, whats the typical interview process for a role now-a-days? 1 interview, 2? Competency based/pure techinical etc?

Been out of the game for 10 years so looking for an insight. Cheers.

Booming!

(But then I hate both Microsoft & .Net. )

[Vandalay]

Seems to be quite a few Business Intelligence / MI roles around over the last few months.

[walshy]

Thanks for the responses

Well inevitably, I work in banking. .Net, C#, SQL Server skills.

[nomadd]

Well inevitably, I work in banking. .Net, C#, SQL Server skills.

Are you Indian..? Do you have terrible English skills..? Do you take one bath a week..?

Going off the .Net/C# guys around this IB, that's the profile you need to be employed. Oh, and plenty cheapness.

Might be time for you to re-skill.

EDIT: I meant one bath a week or less.

[SimonMac]

Looking at the sites I think just before the start of the new financial year is not a good view of the market in general, hold tight for a month or so and enjoy your time off, its what I am doing.