Benched

[PAH]

7 weeks. tried a few bids on jobs but not a sniff. No chance of getting a permie job....there arn't around here, unless you like driving delivery vans or opening boxes and then putting them on delivery vans.

Not true. Have a look on the Jobcentre website. A few weeks ago when I was perusing jobs in the region out of interest, saw a permie position in Blackburn (assuming that's where your location is refering to) doing M$ based web development for a similar amount you get in Manchester.

I would prefer to work in Manchester though to be honest!

[Francko]

Mammalian Protruberances

Protuberances

[KathyWoolfe]

Wot e said & all the bits ferret deleted

[KathyWoolfe]

Being a girl on CUK you have two well trodden options

1/ get a sexy avatar and flirt in TPD with assorted sexually frustrated nerds who you just know are knocking one out as they type with their free hand.

2/ post tripe on any subject, anything you are thinking about, fad diets, hen weekends, dilemmas, drug abuse, the less you know about the subject the more indignant you should be.

[oracleslave]

Being a girl on CUK you have two well trodden options

1/ get a sexy avatar and flirt in TPD with assorted sexually frustrated nerds who you just know are knocking one out as they type with their free hand.

2/ post tripe on any subject, anything you are thinking about, fad diets, hen weekends, dilemmas, drug abuse, the less you know about the subject the more indignant you should be.

[SandyDown]

7 weeks. tried a few bids on jobs but not a sniff. No chance of getting a permie job....there arn't around here, unless you like driving delivery vans or opening boxes and then putting them on delivery vans.

that is scary lilelvis, didn't realise the market was that bad.. mind you in my field I noticed 99% of the roles are in financial sector (banking not included)

Even in Europe the jobs are not that great... I noticed Europe rates are getting lower and lower…FFS they are advertising some contracts for 400 euros a day… WTF?? Who’d want to do contracting for that much??/ OK put me on the bench for a couple of months and I’d be begging for it

Oh .. why oh why did I have kids!!

Bummer, I hope things pick up by March...

[DimPrawn]

One word.


Doomed.


HTH

[lilelvis2000]

Not true. Have a look on the Jobcentre website. A few weeks ago when I was perusing jobs in the region out of interest, saw a permie position in Blackburn (assuming that's where your location is refering to) doing M$ based web development for a similar amount you get in Manchester.

I would prefer to work in Manchester though to be honest!

I would prefer to work here. I did the Manchester thing for five years and got tired of the train, the rain and the smelly chavs. Plus I hardly saw my children.

Anyway, I do Oracle and have no experience in web. I haven't really seen anything good around here. There maybe the odd one going for £25ish which I've applied for, but all I get is "interesting CV". Seriously that's the response I get.

[SandyDown]

I would prefer to work here. I did the Manchester thing for five years and got tired of the train, the rain and the smelly chavs. Plus I hardly saw my children.

Anyway, I do Oracle and have no experience in web. I haven't really seen anything good around here. There maybe the odd one going for £25ish which I've applied for, but all I get is "interesting CV". Seriously that's the response I get.

If you are getting a response of ‘interesting CV’ then there is something seriously not right with your CV, have someone look at it and critique it!!

I got a response saying ’Distinguished CV’ I was a bit worried, but then I got offered the role, so am thinking it’s a good response… but seriously the response you are looking for is CV fits skill set - even if you don’t get offered the role, you should try to change your CV to make it closer to whatever the adds is, or whatever field you want to develop in.

[oracleslave]

you should try to change your CV to make it closer to whatever the adds is, or whatever field you want to develop in.

Or just do what one agent told me. Cut and paste parts of the job spec into your CV.