As several hundred PM's, BA's + techy's flood the market this month

[tarbera]

as Industry Account switching winds down, RBS & Lloyds letting 000's go each day, Its looking like a 4/5 month out for a lot of contractors. It's going to be a long dark winter for some.

On the bright side this kull will ensure a good percentage will go to the darkside ensuring rates in the spring will shoot up.?

[craig1]

It's increasingly getting back to the early 90s style of contracting where it's who you know rather than what you know that gets you the gig. The commodity PM roles are always going to be first come, first served in getting an agent's attention but the better roles tend to have agencies hunting known-good contractors rather than desperate ex-permanent staff doing the "F5-apply" technique of job hunting.

[northernladuk]

as Industry Account switching winds down, RBS & Lloyds letting 000's go each day, Its looking like a 4/5 month out for a lot of contractors. It's going to be a long dark winter for some.

On the bright side this kull will ensure a good percentage will go to the darkside ensuring rates in the spring will shoot up.?

It's a cull and I don't think you can relate contracting rates to go up based on this alone.

[northernladuk]

It's increasingly getting back to the early 90s style of contracting where it's who you know rather than what you know that gets you the gig.

You mean like doing business? If only though....

[craig1]

You mean like doing business? If only though....

Contracting has been too easy for years. It's nowt like it was when I were a lad... Contractors these days just don't know how good they have it

I had a PMO assistant assigned to me at a contract last year who hadn't been born yet when I ran my first project

[amcdonald]

That's what scares me 90% of my contracts for the last 5 years have been going back to the same clients.

Applying through jobserve seems to be more effort than it used to be

[BlasterBates]

The good news is that UBS is now halfway through it's massive job cull

We’re half way through job cuts: UBS CEO

Doesn't look good in the banking sector.

[SussexSeagull]

From my (testing) perspective the market has looked fairly rosy since the schools went back.

[northernladuk]

From my (testing) perspective the market has looked fairly rosy since the schools went back.

Schools factoring in market buoyancy? That's a new one.

[bobspud]

Schools factoring in market buoyancy? That's a new one.

Maybe it's different in the northern markets but decisions always go to poo as soon as the kids break up in London