The future of IT contracting

[hyperD]

Woo hoo! 3 out of 4!!

[xinetd.d]

Woo hoo! 3 out of 4!!

Have a look on amazon then quick, by the weekend you could have the full set of "Dummies" books.

[DimPrawn]

Yes .NET, BizTalk are at the top on my CV, along with SQL Server, Analysis Services (OLAP) and these are good skills that should last at least another few years.

No IT skill is 100% safe from offshoring, but then most offshored projects are total disasters anyway.

[hyperD]

Have a look on amazon then quick, by the weekend you could have the full set of "Dummies" books.

Actual fact, 'cos of 3, 4 implied in one system that's live with a major oil co. Full house!

hyperD in "DevilFish" mode.

[n5gooner]

the contract where I am at the mo - 3 days to go ! are outsourcing to Budapest ......all the permies are being told if they have jobs or not, most seem not!. .........this is for a major oil company..........

[hyperD]

the contract where I am at the mo - 3 days to go ! are outsourcing to Budapest ......all the permies are being told if they have jobs or not, most seem not!. .........this is for a major oil company..........

I thought that there were, even in this country, some employment laws that made this sort of activity hard to implement. Contractors, yes, permies, no.

I know companies outsource future work abroad, tell the perms that there's no more new work and then make some of them redundant as a result('cos it's all been outsourced).

[n5gooner]

well its happening here....some people are keeping thier jobs, the rest are in a "pool" that may find a job, but in not will be made redundent

[AttitudeAdjuster]

The reality of 'permanent' employment

I thought that there were, even in this country, some employment laws that made this sort of activity hard to implement. Contractors, yes, permies, no.

I know companies outsource future work abroad, tell the perms that there's no more new work and then make some of them redundant as a result('cos it's all been outsourced).

Ha, basically, if you have not been at a place for at least a year (or is it two?), you have zero rights. A place I worked at, the director didn't like the face of one person, so the scheme was to make all the s/w people redundant then selectively re-employ under a new job description that the 'trouble-maker' would not match (natch!). There were emails he sent to his legal advisors left on the server for all to see (what a plonker!), so we knew what was happening. Even in the face of this, the one guy who went through the legal process got nowhere.

And I wondered why a company of that size had such a large HR department. Now I know, they had a history of doing dirty deals and fighting individuals in the courts.

[OwlHoot]

Growth areas;

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Document management

and general backup and storage management (slightly lower-level)