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[GB9]

Rates aside, why do they need experience of working in Acute NHS? Do dbs work differently in Acute or do you have to give the medical staff a hand every so often?

[northernladuk]

Rates aside, why do they need experience of working in Acute NHS? Do dbs work differently in Acute or do you have to give the medical staff a hand every so often?

No but it is an very different culture to anywhere else you could work and the culture alone is enough for people to quit or not take gigs in this area. When we started work on the NPfIT we had a whole day induction to the culture of the permies. Quite an eye opener.

[eek]

No but it is an very different culture to anywhere else you could work and the culture alone is enough for people to quit or not take gigs in this area. When we started work on the NPfIT we had a whole day induction to the culture of the permies. Quite an eye opener.

So workshy arse-covering layabout is a culture?

You learn something new everyday....

[BigRed]

Rates aside, why do they need experience of working in Acute NHS? Do dbs work differently in Acute or do you have to give the medical staff a hand every so often?

Same as working in Banking, every sector seems to think they are 'special' most of the special requirements seem to revolve around ITIL, data protection, and other mind numbingly boring procedures that suck the enthusiasm and initiative out of you. At least you avoid all the HR team working tulip.

[craig1]

It's annoying. I have a friend who is a project manager in insurance. According to him, the culture of the insurance business is so different to anywhere else that you really MUST have insurance experience to do the job well. His last three projects were Exchange 2010 upgrade, a Sharepoint HR Portal upgrade and a server consolidation project. Yep, really three projects where insurance knowledge will trump good IT project management experience.

I've done contract project management in telecoms firms, local councils, law firms, accountancy firms, oil companies, internet service providers, the MoD, heavy manufacturing companies, food manufacturing companies, clothing retail and general retail. Each one had their concerns that I'd not worked in their industry before, not a single one had a major difference worth noting in how they operated, in fact the most confusing bit was the titles they gave each other in different industries. In fact, it was probably easier coming from outside as I didn't have the emotional baggage of "it's always done like that in this industry and I know no other way".

I'm sure it's an ego thing: "our work is so tough that we can't imagine anyone else having it as tough as we do, therefore we're going to discount any experience from anywhere else."

[geoffreywhereveryoumaybe]

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Not only industry sector experience, but lately more and more assignments are stating 'local' people only - lost a gig because they were worried about an hour commute which for the South East is pretty normal and one central London, Westminster, client was also insisting on local applicants.

[BigRed]

Todays hot offers:

Job Title: Database Administrator
Skills; SQL, Access, Web, SSMS
Location; Burton-upon-Trent, East Staffordshire
Benefits: £12.50 per hour to £15.00 per hour

We are looking to recruit a DBA for a market leading and progressive electronics business based in Staffordshire; this role will be a 6 Month Fixed-Term contract and is an important piece of a puzzle.


Or a hot Banking role in London:

SQL DBA - A leading Banking client requires a SQL DBA to provide high quality support for the production and non production MS SQL environment for a 3-6 Month contract London.
The SQL DBA must have solid experience in the following areas:

- Been involved in a production support environment
- Strong experience in Core DBA activities
- Experience in recovery using Native SQL tool and Net Backup
- Good understanding of SQL Server Architecture
- Expertise in Patching and Upgrades (experience in Patching high availability set-up)
- Performance monitoring and tuning
- Knowledge of SQL Query and execution

The SQL DBA will be responsible for providing high quality support for the production and non production MS SQL environment (2000 to 2008). As well as providing incident and change management support.

£200/day

[kal]

Todays hot offers:

Job Title: Database Administrator
Skills; SQL, Access, Web, SSMS
Location; Burton-upon-Trent, East Staffordshire
Benefits: £12.50 per hour to £15.00 per hour

We are looking to recruit a DBA for a market leading and progressive electronics business based in Staffordshire; this role will be a 6 Month Fixed-Term contract and is an important piece of a puzzle.


Or a hot Banking role in London:

SQL DBA - A leading Banking client requires a SQL DBA to provide high quality support for the production and non production MS SQL environment for a 3-6 Month contract London.
The SQL DBA must have solid experience in the following areas:

- Been involved in a production support environment
- Strong experience in Core DBA activities
- Experience in recovery using Native SQL tool and Net Backup
- Good understanding of SQL Server Architecture
- Expertise in Patching and Upgrades (experience in Patching high availability set-up)
- Performance monitoring and tuning
- Knowledge of SQL Query and execution

The SQL DBA will be responsible for providing high quality support for the production and non production MS SQL environment (2000 to 2008). As well as providing incident and change management support.

£200/day

Bob Agencies?, recent mail I got was from some Indian woman trying to convince me to join her Fortune 1000(!) client & asking for the moon tech wise for £300 a day... jog on

[craig1]

Bob Agencies?, recent mail I got was from some Indian woman trying to convince me to join her Fortune 1000(!) client & asking for the moon tech wise for £300 a day... jog on

If they get enough genuine and provable rejections from suitable candidates, or even prove that they've advertised well enough to a target audience, who don't want to do the work then that seriously helps their case for a visa for their latest poor Indian sap. The poor sap who thinks they'll genuinely employ him long enough in the UK, on well under minimum wage after paying his tied accommodation, for him to get residency.

[jjdarg]

It's annoying. I have a friend who is a project manager in insurance. According to him, the culture of the insurance business is so different to anywhere else that you really MUST have insurance experience to do the job well. His last three projects were Exchange 2010 upgrade, a Sharepoint HR Portal upgrade and a server consolidation project. Yep, really three projects where insurance knowledge will trump good IT project management experience.

I've done contract project management in telecoms firms, local councils, law firms, accountancy firms, oil companies, internet service providers, the MoD, heavy manufacturing companies, food manufacturing companies, clothing retail and general retail. Each one had their concerns that I'd not worked in their industry before, not a single one had a major difference worth noting in how they operated, in fact the most confusing bit was the titles they gave each other in different industries. In fact, it was probably easier coming from outside as I didn't have the emotional baggage of "it's always done like that in this industry and I know no other way".

I'm sure it's an ego thing: "our work is so tough that we can't imagine anyone else having it as tough as we do, therefore we're going to discount any experience from anywhere else."

I find the Insurance industry is probably the most precious about this. I have applied many times for roles that could have been written using my CV, but as I don't have specific insurance industry experience, when I am put forward, my CV is usually binned.

Insurance is essentially 95% back office operations which are no different from back office operations in most other industries. Are their back office ops more boring and grey than other back office ops? Maybe that's the key.

(Of course an insurance bod would probably refute that...)