Jobserve seems hellishly slow these days

[OwlHoot]

Is that a sign that loads more people than before are searching for work?

[alreadypacked]

Is that a sign that loads more people than before are searching for work?

I think so, I spoke with an agent who had 100s of replies for a role, asked me to drop my rate by half to match the other applicants. I would get the role, I ask why "you are the best applicant" nice to hear, but my reply, "that's why I charge more"

May not get the role

[OwlHoot]

I think so, I spoke with an agent who had 100s of replies for a role, asked me to drop my rate by half to match the other applicants. I would get the role, I ask why "you are the best applicant" nice to hear, but my reply, "that's why I charge more"

May not get the role

which leads to the perennial dilemma - if you drop your rate, how much of the difference will the agent snaffle?

(Mind you, that will be an incentive for them to put you forward. So I guess it works either way.)

[alreadypacked]

which leads to the perennial dilemma - if you drop your rate, how much of the difference will the agent snaffle?

(Mind you, that will be an incentive for them to put you forward. So I guess it works either way.)

I may get extended where I am, so holding fast on moment.

Last few weeks I was not feeling very positive, but now

[RichardCranium]

Jobserve seems hellishly slow these days

Thank you. I've been getting timeout errors and the like, like when TPD is approaching a millennium.

I have rebooted, cleared the caches, defragged and generally faffed about trying to fix it.

So it's not me; it really is everyone else this time.

Again, thank you. I can stop mucking about with my browser settings now.

[zamzummim]

Yes Jobserver is extremely slow today - I gave up on it.

I do hope its a technical issue and not really the load of people looking - my contract may end in a couple of weeks (awaiting renew/terminate decision at the moment)

However, at this time of the year, its always been slow.

Anyone remembers how long the last recession lasted? I think it was around 18 months... but suppose it depends on when you believe the actual recession has started, anyone can think of a recession start sign?? To me it was the Lehman collapse and HBOS merger.

[RichardCranium]

Anyone remembers how long the last recession lasted?

Remember it? I was still trying to recover from it.

[mace]

IT recessions

Yes Jobserver is extremely slow today - I gave up on it.

I do hope its a technical issue and not really the load of people looking - my contract may end in a couple of weeks (awaiting renew/terminate decision at the moment)

However, at this time of the year, its always been slow.

Anyone remembers how long the last recession lasted? I think it was around 18 months... but suppose it depends on when you believe the actual recession has started, anyone can think of a recession start sign?? To me it was the Lehman collapse and HBOS merger.

Last IT recession started at turn of millenium and hit a trough in June 2003 i.e. 2.5 years from peak to trough. This time, the stock market started to plunge from August 2007 with IT jobs treading water until January 2008 and then taking a plunge. It looks like (according to jobstats.co.uk) it hit the trough about a month ago, so this appears to have lasted 1.5 years from peak to trough. The last recession came off the back of the dotcom collapse and the millenium bug work completing so it would make sense that the last one should be worse. Here's hoping.

[RichardCranium]

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That's better!

[expat]

Anyone remembers how long the last recession lasted?

Remember it? I was still trying to recover from it.

Yeah. I was recovering from it OK when I got divorced. Then I was recovering from that when this recession came.

My real doubt is, am I going to recover from this one? Or is there, underneath the recession, a change for the worse that will never get better? I suspect that there is.