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[avonleigh]

Probably different for devs but for testing I have never even had an interview for IB or Insurance roles. So don't even waste my time applying anymore. I do wonder too that because the roles are pretty much always in London if they only look for people who are local(ish).

[avonleigh]

PT has to be one of the worst professions. It's very badly paid and people don't stay in it long. I have been in gyms for last 20+ years. Amount of PT's who have left during that time is staggering. Only ones who make money are the ones who may have a few celeb clients....

[avonleigh]

Me neither. Great rate for niche skills eh? lol...

[avonleigh]

How do they get away with this? Shocking.

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Northampton

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[avonleigh]

Yep, I always wanted to run a coffee shop. Been a dream for a long while now. But on research you need a lot of capital and it seems a lot of coffee places barely break even now. You would need a USP in this climate. But wouldn't even entertain it until we are out of this cost of living crisis....

[avonleigh]

We are at the bottom. It can't get any worse, last week barely 1 job a day was posted for my area. Think all eyes are on April. See if there is any kind of recovery. Otherwise check again in October....

[avonleigh]

Good luck. I wouldn't read anything into the time. Could be a whole list of reasons it's at that time....

[avonleigh]

Market is not recovering at all. Maybe if you have niche skills. I have also noticed a lot of redundancies on LinkedIn lately. Dread to think what the actual numbers of people out of work is currently.

[avonleigh]

Not one testing role posted to jobserve today. This has to be a first. Also spoke to somebody from Hays, they said they have absolutely no roles at all and the market is completely dead. Very worrying times especially as this is usually the busiest time of the year.

[avonleigh]

Some agencies will be ok with it and some won't. I would be careful as having a spouse as a sole director though. HMRC will probably take a dim view of it unless you have good reasons to do so.

[avonleigh]

I have done this for years. Applied for roles where I don't have some of the skills, if it's an agency I don't know, Just to get my CV out there....

[avonleigh]

No contractor is going to pay £5 to apply for a role. I make hundreds of applications so this would cost me a lot of money. All this would do is make more people go permie....

[avonleigh]

A lot of the time a CTO is nothing more than a Head of Development....