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Recent content by edison
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State of the Market
Just started a new 6 month gig. Whoop whoop! Decent rate, albeit inside IR35. Started after my previous three month FTC in Spring with potential to move into another role at the company was ended. First time since 2023 that I've got contracts back to back with no significant break in...- edison
- Post #15,923
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Teams interview for local on-site contract
It goes even further than transcription or searching for keywords. One company I interviewed with earlier in the year used an AI note taker integrated with Teams. It could do things like analyse your CV and LinkedIn profile, produce complete insight summaries of each candidate based against the...- edison
- Post #22
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State Pension Affordability
You've summed it up perfectly - no UK government is going to tackle pensions whilst the over 50s are the biggest voting bloc. You only have to look at France and the terrible mess they've got in trying to increase the state pension age from 62 to 64. They've gone through three PMs in a couple of... -
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How much ?
I think you are right. It's almost as if Royal Mail, under it's new billionaire foreign owner, has no interest in maintaining the universal service and only cares about the profitable parcel delivery arm. :rolleyes: -
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Boomed! (At last)
Just finished the first week of a new gig after the longest gap in my 14 year contracting career. Honestly thought I might have done my last full time gig but an opportunity came up through my network and it's working at a company I really like where I've done a previous gig. 3 months to begin... -
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AWS profits
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State of the Market
I know dozens of recruiters who've worked at Hays over the years. A quick scan on Linkedin shows many have left in the last year or two. Hays concentrates on certain sectors and are mainly in the pile it high, sell it cheap recruitment business. I wouldn't use Hays to recruit middle to senior...- edison
- Post #15,593
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List of outside IR35 roles
Is it possible in this case that it's the CFO who is the actual Office holder and not the Finance Director position? The CFO is presumably the position on the Board of Directors, not the FD role? -
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State of the Market
AI clearly isn't the tech revolution that was anticipated, at least in terms of job creation, contract opportunities etc. Almost every day now there is a warning about the insane level of capex investment going into AI infrastructure and tech stock market valuations. Google's CEO warned...- edison
- Post #14,998
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State of the Market
Interesting point. Are there fewer people in their early to mid-30s, continuing to go into contracting? 10-15 years ago it seemed that I worked with a lot of contractors who were under 35. Now there seem to be fewer younger ones about. This forum seems to be disproportionately populated by...- edison
- Post #14,997
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State of the Market
They might be Anglo-Indians. Or there's a good chance they are Indian students/workers on the Post-Student or Skilled Worker Visa now having to take any job going because their visas are approaching renewal time and UK companies do not want to sponsor them in such numbers any more. Reddit is...- edison
- Post #14,706
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State of the Market
I mean this in the kindest way but if you're now into your third year on the bench, surely there's no market for you? Your warchest must have been emptied, no?- edison
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State of the Market
Back in the early to mid-2010s, I had a couple of contracts that required 3-4 stages of interviews, as many as any perm job I've gone for. Luckily I got both and it's only been one interview in four of my last five roles. End clients honestly don't seem to be too sure half the time what they...- edison
- Post #14,703
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Hoping to get back to contracting - Workday project Reading/Warwick
I did that once and still got the gig. First agent went completely quiet for a few weeks after I'd had original contact with them and sent my CV. Saw a very similar sounding role advertised with a different agent and applied. Turns out the role had been farmed out to several agencies by now...- edison
- Post #17
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Hoping to get back to contracting - Workday project Reading/Warwick
I was overseeing a payroll and HR implementation programme back in 2018/19. Recruiting a contract PM was one of the hardest roles I've ever had to recruit. Rates were high and all the candidates we were looking at seemed to have multiple offers. It reminded me of my SAP days in the late 90s...- edison
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