Upsetting phone call

[suityou01]

Has he got an online portfolio?

Yes.

[117MilesToGo]

Yes.

I spoke to my agent in person just before I started this contract, and he said to me 'Thank god your CV arrived. We get a lot of applications but the amount of dross that is out there .....'

Just saying ......

[BdP]

Private Sent

For those of you who are PCG members, this is the sad reply to people who advertise that they want a simple website buillding.

Basically, it is a comodity business, and there are templates, Joomla, etc etc that are basicaly "end user computing", and as such 'web builders' find themselves scrambling over 30 quid website/css/html coding for their more successful mates.

I have been recently recruiting for an investment bank who need people with good database skills on two or three platforms. It is extremely difficult to get SQL Server people with Oracle or Sybase (a bit easier the other way around). And, it is nigh impossible to get people with good ksh/perl skills.

In other words, solid 'infrastructure' skills, and the ability to support large complex DB's appear to be lacking.

He needs to either get out of IT or xtrain

[NotAllThere]

He needs to expand his skill set. Difficult when you've got no dosh though. From the above response, deepening dba skills might be an idea.

[MarillionFan]

Well that seems to be all the advice and good it is to.

Frankly I don't hang about with losers. Everyone I know is successful or a go getter! The concept that opposites attract is untrue when it comes to friends.

[Shimano105]

Well that seems to be all the advice and good it is to.

Frankly I don't hang about with losers. Everyone I know is successful or a go getter! The concept that opposites attract is untrue when it comes to friends.

So why do you spend every spare minute posting on here then, diptulip?

[d000hg]

For those of you who are PCG members, this is the sad reply to people who advertise that they want a simple website buillding.

Basically, it is a comodity business, and there are templates, Joomla, etc etc that are basicaly "end user computing", and as such 'web builders' find themselves scrambling over 30 quid website/css/html coding for their more successful mates.

Sure, if you want a boring, same-looking site. A business that actually wants something decent has to pay more... as with anything else bespoke is much more costly but stands out.

[suityou01]

Sure, if you want a boring, same-looking site. A business that actually wants something decent has to pay more... as with anything else bespoke is much more costly but stands out.

There is still a market (albeit diminished). The whole idea of web presence is that it is unique.

@NAT: I agree. But still, bite me.

[suityou01]

Being unique amounts to a hill of beans if no one can find it.

As minestrone mentioned earlier, SEO is also critical to a successful presence.

Well I have had a few very helpful PMs (you know who you are, and bless you all- you are lovely people)

I have passed all of the info onto him, so it is now up to him.

Thanks, sincerely.

SY01

[MaryPoppins]

Well that seems to be all the advice and good it is to.

Frankly I don't hang about with losers. Everyone I know is successful or a go getter! The concept that opposites attract is untrue when it comes to friends.

Like your mate who racially abused that lady in a petrol station?