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Recent content by gables
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State of the Market
Just don't mention it on your CV - I've been told only the last two years count :wink- gables
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
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State of the Market
What does your contract have as a start date and is it inside IR35?- gables
- Post #15,918
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State of the Market
I've used Paystream since 2017 without any problems. They will sign you up with NEST which you can opt out of straight away if you want to, get this done before any payment is made although I think you can get it refunded, but better to be safe. They allow salary sacrifice into a pension of your...- gables
- Post #15,897
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Umbrella Co mortgages - any personal recommendations?
Yeah there was a fella on called Martin, can't remember if he was one of those you mention or something like ASFinancials -
State of the Market
Obviously I have as I keep getting work. You do know there are soft skills not just technical ones - I think I know which you lack. I'd agree on the technical side to a degree, although I'm using using technical skills learnt over 20 years ago. But as I'm sure you know there are other skills...- gables
- Post #15,835
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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State of the Market
They don't have to read it all, they can stop at page 3, but if they want to it's all there. It's not like I've faxed it across and they have a ream of paper to gather up. In 2003 I developed a set of high performance mountain lights sold across the UK as part of retail business, you don't...- gables
- Post #15,823
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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CV Format
My CV hasn't changed format since 1993, it now gets updated with each new role and skills\tech etc. I'm one of those 5+ pages, 7 to be exact. I figure the recruiter doesn't have to read all of it, the most important and recent bits are in the first 3 pages. Also it's not like we fax them across...- gables
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State of the Market
Is it a given they're highly skilled?- gables
- Post #15,708
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State Pension Affordability
I imagine a lot of us have stories like this. When I first started working in London, after a couple of years of renting, in 1992 we bought a 2 bed flat in West Ealing for £77k, I think our joint salaries was around 28k. I seem to recollect the max mortgage was 2.5 * joint and required a 10%... -
State of the Market
I am sceptical about AI and can certainly recognise the hype, I was merely pointing out that there seems an investment in it if that floats your boat, not for me though. IMHO this type of hype has been a plague within IT all my career since 1989, and although I may have ridden the crest of some...- gables
- Post #15,674
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State of the Market
Not sure about dead for 3 years as I've been working in banking since 2022 which was my first time (this century) bar some time off last year on my part, but as I say below it helps if you have contacts. As to AI, it appears here it is being invested in and heavily. Indeed... many people...- gables
- Post #15,671
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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State of the Market
So what is it about an AI generated CV that makes this happen? Is is the writing style, format....- gables
- Post #15,662
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State of the Market
That's bleeding mental, it really is :facepalm:- gables
- Post #15,657
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Maximum duration of contracting for public sector
Playing devil's advocate a little... he's good at something by being able to stay on for 11 years, isn't a goal of being in 'business' repeat custom :happy- gables
- Post #21
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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State of the Market
Not withstanding HobNob's calculation I'd be taking the role as a contract, you might find you'll get paid quicker than FTC i.e. weekly rather than monthly. This happened to me when I restarted contracting in 2015 and got paid weekly, which was a surprise as my previous contracting was billing...- gables
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
