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Demand for IT Contractors going off a cliff

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    #11
    Glad I'm not an IT contractor right now...

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      #12
      I'm at the coal face (i.e. the bench) and I can report that things are quite busy, though clients seem slow on interviews. Since the New Year I have had two interviews and one pending, with lots of others "yet to come back". Unfortunately the one interview that went well is not the one I'm interested in

      So far I'm still optimistic about the market...
      Cats are evil.

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        #13
        Demand for workers falling off so what does the government do?

        Yup, you guessed - increase the supply. Link: BBC

        I'm glad I'm out the game these days. (Own co., not on the bench)
        How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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          #14
          Dust off your Plan B's everyone
          Confusion is a natural state of being

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            #15
            Good to see some things are consistent

            http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d...X.d/index.html

            Oh, I’m sorry….I seem to be lost. I was looking for the sane side of town. I’d ask you for directions, but I have a feeling you’ve never been there and I’d be wasting my time.

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              #16
              Debt looks fairly safe, and good rates. I think I'm going to get into debt:

              http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d...T.d/index.html
              Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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                #17
                Wrong time of the year

                Worst possible time (and not just because of the recent credit freeze). Busiest time is Apr-Jun, quietest Jan-Mar.

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                  #18
                  Glad I'm ion the Northwest for once, not anywhere near as scary as London
                  http://www.bluejumper.com

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by BrowneIssue View Post
                    I have been keeping a log of stats from Jobserve for myself since 2000. Specifically, the number of IT roles in the UK per day.
                    Is it a compulsion with numbers... like trainspotting?
                    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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                      #20
                      If you want to know if a hard rains a gonna fall -

                      Take a look at restaurants in your locale - are they busy or do you see a lot of empty tables - that - for the past few recessions in the UK was always the most predictable early warning sign.

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