Need a job...

[Francko]

Should Contractor UK be renamed to Permie UK?

I'd suggest Unemployed UK

[suityou01]

Should Contractor UK be renamed to Permie UK?

Utter toss.This is a fellow contractor in trouble.You know the score out there. We are all worried. Grow up.

Knob.

[cupidstunt]

Really feel for you, and offer to help in any way I can. Switch to PMs if needs be.

Can you wave your magic wand and create 50 000 contract positions please?

Ta.

[suityou01]

Can you wave your magic wand and create 50 000 contract positions please?

Ta.

Not for you. You can starve. HTH.

[expat]

I take it you're being flexible on location and rate? What is your ideal gig? Chuck a reply on here, somebody might be able to give you a steer.

Very flexible. Will work anywhere in Europe and a few places outside it. Will even take contract that won't quite pay the bills, because (low rate) + (slow warchest depletion) will last a lot longer than (fast warchest depletion).

Thanks for the concern, but I believe that there must be plenty of contractors worse off. I can hold out till the end of the year (only this year unfortunately).

[OwlHoot]

Very flexible. Will work anywhere in Europe and a few places outside it. Will even take contract that won't quite pay the bills, because (low rate) + (slow warchest depletion) will last a lot longer than (fast warchest depletion).

Thanks for the concern, but I believe that there must be plenty of contractors worse off. I can hold out till the end of the year (only this year unfortunately).

The whole year?! Some of us could barely hold out for a couple of months, without giving up booze and fags.

[cupidstunt]

Not for you. You can starve. HTH.

Can you feed the other 49 999?

[suityou01]

Very flexible. Will work anywhere in Europe and a few places outside it. Will even take contract that won't quite pay the bills, because (low rate) + (slow warchest depletion) will last a lot longer than (fast warchest depletion).

Thanks for the concern, but I believe that there must be plenty of contractors worse off. I can hold out till the end of the year (only this year unfortunately).

OK. Typical CUK response would be far to predictable. If Sasguru spots this thread then all hell will break loose.

<Toned down response>
FFS reskill on the bench and get a gig that pays if you can sit on your arse for 6 months. Get into SAP, Cloud computing,BPM,MS Dynamics, whatever.
Get some bar work to prevent warchest depletion. Train train train. Now!
</Toned down response>

A good arse kicking is sometimes what is needed. Plunder the available job ads to find out what is in vogue that most closely matches your skills, then post a bogus job ad on jobserve or linked in and get some cvs to see what the competition is doing. Then create a masterpiece of bulltulip cv and send it into the job ads. This combined with your rapid training curve.

Raise your game Expat, and survive. You can do this mate.

Truly HTH

[suityou01]

Can you feed the other 49 999?

Do I have to answer this?

[Francko]

...then post a bogus job ad on jobserve ...

Nice try... but how many people would send out their CVs not knowing what agency is yours and who the hell are you if you don't send websites and company references ...