True. Chances of getting a role without sector experience as good as zero these days.
Requirements go hot and cold all over the place too. Seems Scrum is less hot now and old school "Project Management" is back. Saw Prince 2 yesterday lol. Really Prince 2 in 2024. The death of...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYdQokymSJY
"Im a head of product so I hire Product Managers, a year ago I would open a PM role and within 24 hours it would get 80 to 90 applicants. Now within 24 hours it gets 400 applicants.
In the past 12 months we've hired 20 people...
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Its Layoff tastic.
Momentum for a tech sector rebound remains slow to build, outside of bright spots within artificial intelligence and adjacent companies, resulting in tech companies continuing to cut back on their workforces and pivot from a growth mindset to one based on efficiency...
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Where do you get that sense from?
Its all down to wage arbitrage at the end of the day. As demand in a location rises so does the wages right - I heard ages ago something along the lines that Indian offshore companies that are good theyve got more expensive and therefore not that much different...
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Yes exactly. Its already here. This is the kind of stuff the likes of WPP will be plowing that 250 mil into.
https://www.adcreative.ai/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0G5en3ZS4s
Has a database of 150million ad creatives - as the guy in the vid says - 'so we know...
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Agreed. The "AI" piece to me is not so much about "sexy innovation" as much as how do we use tech to "dumb down" the skill needed to perform this work so it can be done offshore cheaper with a lower skill worker
If you do a text search on the WPP prelim doc...
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Ha yes IR35 make UK workers even more expensive right
and then surprise - good old Rishi helping out Infosys - his Father in Laws Indian offshorers with nice juicy gov contracts...
"Infosys – in which Murty reportedly has shares worth around £610 million – has been...
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sreed yes the agency space is hyper competitive / not much to differentiate apart from price - love that quote "WPP said it was using offshoring to mitigate salary inflation"
Put a more accurate way we're offshoring as UK people are too expensive and we need to get cheaper wages...
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AI + OFFSHORING = RIP UK
"Companies are accelerating their efforts to send jobs to lower-cost countries in response to the challenge of finding workers and inflation driving up wages. A recent Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta survey found that 7.3% of leadership in the United States...
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Recruiter LI post says contract market currently dead gets 2000 likes and 160 comments
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nickg...member_desktop
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I think going back to perm from contract - Im same as you - via agents goes nowhere. Only interest is via companies direct. But even then its slim pickings.
Almost all roles now have 'whats your salary' requirement now. No doubt if youre 10 years older than your new boss and wanting more...
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