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[avonleigh]

Not sure how you can say that, maybe it has for your skillset but the market has not improved at all in general....

[avonleigh]

Good luck Oliverson and Schumistars. Hopefully you will get some positivite outcomes this week.

On the subject of which contract to take. I never bother to think about such things until contract is in hand. But for me would always take the more interesting one which would help me in the...

[avonleigh]

Have had SC clearance for years. Quite straight forward, takes 3-4 months. DV is a whole different ball game. Can take 12 months to get. 20-30 pages to fill out and they go deep into your finances and even look into your friends and family. Quite often they will interview them too. It's incrediblty...

[avonleigh]

Where exactly did I blame the kids? Did you actually read my comments? My comment had nothing to do with the state of the market. It was just about kids have different mentality than my generation.
State of market is down to a mixture of ir35, brexit, outsourcing and successive incompetent governments...

[avonleigh]

Well most of my friends and people I speak to share my sentiments. So I am not sure what world you are living in. Even Prince William has said there kids don't have phones cos social media is killing families. And have you seen how many teachers are leaving the profession?...

[avonleigh]

It's not just agents. The new generation generally are very rude, lazy and don't have respect for people. Not all of course but a lot of them are like that. This is not down to WFH but social media. Kids now think that life is easy and they can make £££ doing stupid tiktok and youtube videos. The...

[avonleigh]

Hard to lie nowadays though. Most gigs now they do proper screening. And yes definetely do not lie on SC application. That's mainly what they are interested in. Not if you have made some mistakes / indiscrepancies in the past but whether you are an honest character....

[avonleigh]

Yep it's lapsed after 12 months of non use. And despite what some people seem to think it's not quick and easy to put it back in place. Bascially like starting a SC application from scratch again which can take 3 months or more....

[avonleigh]

C# Developer (x13)
London
Rate	Up to £415/day inside

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[avonleigh]

Indian consultancy, happens all the time. Usually cos the client is based in UK, Europe etc so they work shifts to make sure they have cover during business hours. They also are forced to work stupid hours. Not right of course but it's nothing new....

[avonleigh]

For 3 years?...

[avonleigh]

Not my experience at all. Think Agile is a much better way of delivering projects than the old waterfall way. Agile projects are far more interesting and for testers you get much more involved with developers, so you get better technical skills. Only downside for Agile projects are Sprint Retrospectives,...

[avonleigh]

There are too many factors involved to have an exact answer. But I tend to aim for 25-30% extra for an inside gig....

[avonleigh]

<sigh> - how do you envisage projects being delivered without PM's and BA's. By magical unicorns?...

[avonleigh]

You are right that it's hard to stop companies offshoring. You can make them pay more tax but then they will just up sticks and move to a different country. However, successive governments could have stopped giving out visa's quite easily and then the real kick in the teeth is this ridiculous agreement...