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State of the Market
I see plenty of desperate, haven't worked in a year type posts on Linked-In from both IT folk and recruitment folk. They're definitely in the same boat.- plutocrat
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Has anyone contracted at British Airways
Yes I have, pre-panemic. Waterside is a nice building but getting a bit run down, has a little museum and a small Sainsbury's.You won't be allowed to use the main car park but there are free council car parks nearby for the nature reserve which have really evil width restrictors that can damage...- plutocrat
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State of the Market
Your cv has to go through two filters: HR/Agency non specialists so they are looking for keywords and presentation/phrasing. Then the hiring manager/team who is looking for evidence of skills. So it’s got to appeal to both audiences.- plutocrat
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State of the Market
In the old days there were plenty of fake jobs on JobServe or ones that were resubmitted. I'm getting some success in terms of interviews via linked in and a lesser extent Jobserve, combination of the market in my area picking up slightly and totally rejigging my CV which I'd used successfully...- plutocrat
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State of the Market
Yeah I think the move from old style job boards to linked in has been a disaster. It's not as searchable, dumps you through to application website a lot of the time. Markjet seems to be picking up though but a hell of a iot of competition, frustratingly getting to final 2 on a couple of jobs...- plutocrat
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State of the Market
Really would put in a covering letter if asked on permie jobs, just knock something fairly generic highlighting stuff on your CV and cut and paste the company nameand put a sentence about their sector.- plutocrat
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Agents contacting you for a role that exists but they aren't on PSL
That what I ido, I told the second agent from whom I got the interview that I was represented by the first agent by the role. She said a) they didn't submit and b) previously they submitted me for a role which didn't;t go live at the client 3 months earlier so they still have exclusivity. I tel...- plutocrat
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Agents contacting you for a role that exists but they aren't on PSL
I'm willing to take the risk as they didn't obviously submit. I tell agents nothing about where I'm applying for and don't update my Linked-In until after I've finished my contract and trying to find another.- plutocrat
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Agents contacting you for a role that exists but they aren't on PSL
Following up received a call from the first agent that the client rejected me for being "too expensive" but I'm interviewing with the client on Thursday ROFL... The second job was actually legit and I got interviews via the agent that I was a bit suspicious of so maybe I was being paranoid...- plutocrat
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Agents contacting you for a role that exists but they aren't on PSL
So basically there's no way of checking, any warning signs in the conversation to pick up on though?- plutocrat
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Agents contacting you for a role that exists but they aren't on PSL
The market is picking up but I have had a case of an agent phoning me up frantically and going through the right to represent and then saying I've been submitted but subsequently another agent who is on the PSL who looked on the same client's system and not found my CV has been submitted and I...- plutocrat
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You got the contract role - can you start in 4 months?
I've had delay of a few weeks but literally wasn't anything else on them market so I ended up working here in the end. Moral is keep applying and interviewing until you are actually working there. I really wouldn't hold out to July but wouldn't burn my bridges there either.- plutocrat
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State of the Market
There's a bit of an upturn, wonder if it is related to tax change regarding full expensing for businesses plus inflation coming down a bit- plutocrat
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London perm salaries
Option 1 is mostly out because there are very few outside IR35 contracts about because of the covid induced recession and the forthcoming changes in April. Option 3 is risky. I'd stick to option 2. -
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London perm salaries
Also permie jobs are flooded at the moment with loads of very good, experienced contractors so they don't have to offer huge salaries at the moment to get good people. 120K isn't achievable at the moment unless you have very specific skills and experience like x number of years at a top...
