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Recent content by DrGUID
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State of the Market
Got made redundant from zombie company over the summer. Found another gig really quickly but I ended up walking due to paranoid manager who was so worried about me wasting time to the point it was stopping me actually doing work. It's a shame as it's probably the best work I've had in the last 5...- DrGUID
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I thought I was in something secure, then I got TUPE'd, then I got made redundant. No good ever comes of TUPE if you're in IT. The crumb of comfort is that the Jobserve daily openings are edging up. IT has been cyclical in all the time I've been a dev (since 1997) and I expect the bottom was...- DrGUID
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Job searching websites
Is CWJobs still in business? I can't seem to update my CV or make it searchable. I've tried making a new account but that doesn't work either. It used to be good although it's the main place scammy agents used to find us. Well if anyone has any tips let me know. CVLibrary was really good for a... -
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Jobserve down to 16K vacancies now. The biggest surprise is that Jobserve still exists, given most recruiting has moved to LinkedIn. I was fortunate to find a permie role a month ago, although for 10K less than a role I had last year. I'm also a frugal GenX'er so know all about having a rainy...- DrGUID
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Found a permie dev role after being benched for 33 days. I think that's the longest it's taken since 2002. This one is replacing a retiree and it's for a lower salary than my last role. At least it's work from home. The downside is I keep being made redundant from these roles due to being out of...- DrGUID
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State of the Market
FTSE powering towards 9K but Jobserve vacancies have now collapsed to 23K. Something has to give. Getting the occasional interview but it's one a week rather than two a day like in normal times. There's been an uptick in agents asking for references (but the other candidates are supplying...- DrGUID
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C# dev and just been made redundant (charity sector). Donations are down and client work dried up. But really it's an identical situation to 2022's redundancy (mostly caused by lack of sales team being in the pub/golf course instead of on the phone to clients). I got a decent payoff both times...- DrGUID
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State of the Market
Had a few phonecalls from recruiters this week (C# dev). Agents have generally said it's been up and down. Easter was unusually quiet for a new financial year but things have picked up. I expect there are more people looking following the wave of dotcom company redundancies and there has...- DrGUID
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I'm a .NET/C# permie and I'm stuck in a role I'm not keen on. It only took me 6 days to find this role back in February. Now there is nothing else out there except roles at places people don't want to work at. Indeed, CV Library and now CWJobs appear to be dead, at least as far as getting...- DrGUID
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State of the Market
I'm back in a permie .NET development role but not sure how long it will last - the codebase is overengineered, and the usual response to that is to fire the new hire. My reading of the situation is that I got something at the right time as things have gone very quiet with respect to new...- DrGUID
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It's all or nothing in the IT jobs market. There's plenty going on at the moment. There will be even more jobs in the coming decade given I briefly taught programming at a high school last year and virtually nobody there could (or wanted to) code. Plus Gen X'ers like me are starting to leave the...- DrGUID
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State of the Market
I'm mostly looking at permie jobs (C# and .NET stuff). I've applied for a few jobs on Indeed but mostly just get rejected without an interview. I did have one interview though - the only once since last July or something. I know that Azure/AWS is missing from my CV but to be honest there are...- DrGUID
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A Move Into Training
I've been a developer for a long time and I did a couple of years teaching English (and a little IT) overseas. That was great fun. If you don't have any commitments then give it a go when the world opens up again. I started a computer science PGCE back in the UK but that was awful. I mean the...- DrGUID
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I am getting more emails than 2020 but they're mostly quite generic (e.g. for SAP when I'm a C# guy). Phonecalls are vanishingly rare. Granted I am not in a super hot location but things are pretty bad. I would say that there are so many people looking, which is the main problem. On the bright...- DrGUID
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Yeah I got 19 phonecalls in August 2015 when I uploaded my CV. I had one phonecall last week about a .NET gig but it's another one in a location that's difficult to get to if you don't drive. This is now the longest I've been out of work since the big crash of 2001-02. Thankfully I did get a...- DrGUID
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