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Recent content by Zzap

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    State of the Market

    What is your market just out of interest? Just had a contract fall through and the market seems to have gone very quiet indeed.
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    State of the Market

    Did he mention in what market the demand was in, I'd be interested to know?
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    State of the Market

    I worked on development of LIMS for GSK for a year before moving on to other contracts, looks like I should've kept my hand in :)
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    State of the Market

    Just wanted to acknowledge and thank BigDataPro, lecyclist and BlueSharp for their advice and help - cheers guys.
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    State of the Market

    I've not seen it this bad either. Managed to work through the recessions no problem at all but this feels very different. Been on the bench for a while now. I've got a decent warchest but need a contract for my own sanity. Contractor UK news article states that demand for contractors hits...
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    LinkedIn - Add agency to contact list?

    Do you typically add agents to your contact list? Had a couple of requests from agencies this year.
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    State of the Market

    It seemed to be picking up nicely and then the 4 week lockdown extension killed the market for me (I'm an experienced dev contractor). Here's hoping things get moving again after the 19th.
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    Training/courses and CV

    Hi all, So I'm benched at the moment and it's painfully clear that there are a couple of holes in my skillset, namely WebAPI and recent Javascript framework experience (I did AngularJS 1.5 a couple of years back). I've done plenty of courses for both WebAPI, WebAPI security and Angular on...
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    Finding it too quiet!!!!

    Do you have an example please (which site are you using)? I'm prepared to take on work inside IR35 at the moment as I'm dumping as much as I can into my pension as a company contribution.
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    Finding new contracts on the open market

    @edison I agree, my first contract was working in pharma, been back 3 times over 5-6 years in compliance as a dev before they outsourced their systems and not worked in pharma since, so it's good to know there's still positions out there.

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