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[rocktronAMP]

Has anyone got anything to say about Advance? https://www.advance.online/...

[rocktronAMP]

Second rule of contracting: speculative calls that come in during the week day after 5pm are likely fishing and last attempts of the day to find someone. Don't be that sucker that is on the mobile with an agent at 7:30pm when you should be having family time!...

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Pontoon - An agent once told me to go to a first stage interview in Welwyn Garden City way back in the day. On the day of the interview, I drove 45 miles to the site. I arrived well before the time. Car parking was nightmare even for guests/visitors. I turned up in the morning expecting to be interviewed....

[rocktronAMP]

Hello there ITF86. Thank you and no worries. I am glad to help.

My last bit of advice is to move in a functional direction that is not easily going to be automated in the near future. In other words, your new direction requires Brain.Work; creative, strategic and analytical thinking that...

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Let's hope SVB UK wasn't built with COBOL or Fortran 77. Eh? In fact, it might be HSBC hanging on to shirt coattails of SVB UK, if indeed they leveraged the modern tech available....

[rocktronAMP]

Few routes out of your mess. You don't sound like a programmer / developer, rather like someone who has come to information technology from a sociological background non-tech. Am I right?

Retrain as a people person Business analyst and Quality assurance. https://resources.workable.com/...

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hmmm ... regarding the Agile / SCRUM trainer, I did training at Skillsmatter (participant in a course) about 14 years ago and I knew a trainer there from the SCRUM Alliance. I had no idea that it was still going strong, I'd thought it was on the LATE ADOPTER / That Ship Has Sailed stage.

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[rocktronAMP]

I think that contracting has got harder. It was always FEAST versus FAMINE.
If you going to get anywhere be VERY GOOD, NETWORK and INDISPENSABLE.



You seem to have it good. There is no toxic / blame culture. You don't have to jump on trains or drive 2 to 3 times a week...

[rocktronAMP]

Hiya.

Where do you find US clients? In particular, I am looking for the advanced expert Java / JVM languages / cloud space for opportunities now....