Where is the best place to look for new contracts

[MeAndMyself]

...Jobserve now offers the facility to grab an RSS feed of your searches. The last time I was on the prowl (January) I constructed a number of highly-targeted queries (not just skills, but locations and rates and anything else that made sense) and subscribed to them - if you're using a modern browser, it will probably include feed subscription as one of its capabilities. This allowed me to check every half-hour for the latest vacancies.

Sounds good, I'll look into this, thanks NickFitz.

[MeAndMyself]

No, actually - for me the main reason was to be in control of my working life. Sometimes I moved for the money, sometimes I moved for the experience. At all times I moved for me.

I was getting the money, I was getting the experience and new skills, I was in control and I did stay for me, I see no reason why I should have moved, this is what I said - would you have moved? - why?

[suityou01]

...Now get down to gamblers anonymous.

I've been in the past, they wouldn't take me now because my anonymity would be questionable. They also required two references, so I told them to bugger off.

When you say keep posting my CV to the job boards, do you mean register my CV on them, is this good - do agencies actually user these services much?. Also when you say keep updating my CV, do you mean have a number of different CVs to reflect different roles I would apply for?.

Thanks, in advance.

What I mean is, upload your CV to jobsite-x/y/z and then the following day, upload a new version. It doesn't matter how small the change.

You are basically trying to play the

SELECT TOP 50 * FROM BENCHED_DESPERATE_CONTRACTORS
ORDER BY DATE_OF_LAST_CV_UPLOAD DESC

to your advantage.

[djw]

!Hola!

Check out this link re: good example of CV

http://www.contractoruk.com/news/00405.html

Back in November, I was getting moderate interest from agents, even changing my CV once/week to get it noticed.

I *completely* re-formatted it taking advise from the above link - took me a 6+ hours, but after uploading, I did notice a larger response and seemed to always get unsolicited comments about how good my CV was (not stating that smugly or anything, just followed the advise).

I think the best CV advise was having an attention grabbing 1st page which also sums up all your skills and typically contains more acronyms than English words :-).

I was registered on Jobserve, Jobsite and CWJobs.

My tactic after applying for a job was to *always* phone the agent a couple of hours later. Normally, they hadn't even looked at my CV at that point, and tended to do it whilst I was chatting to them. I know that got my CV put forth to several gigs which I reckon it wouldn't have if I hadn't have called.

That's my 2p.

Good luck with the job hunting ... there's always "Vegas Baby!" if no joy.

cheers