FTSE 250 making new 52 week high today, over 19,800.
We need to see it close above 21,000 this year to confirm the uptrend.
A summer sell off is expected in the next six months, so that could ruin things..
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Originally posted by hungry_hog View PostNever understand how people are able to jump back in and out like sentry duty.
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Originally posted by oliverson View PostThis thread is taking a disturbing turn down the 'job' (perm) side!
qh
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I find when I go for perm interviews (and it doesn't happen often) I have no credibility as a 15 year contractor. Whereas contract interviews pretty much 1 in 2 chance I will get it.
And then if you do get back in you have a 3 months notice.
Never understand how people are able to jump back in and out like sentry duty.
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Originally posted by willendure View PostFinally got through to the recruitment consultant I have been chasing since friday. Took at least 6 phone calls to finally make contact with a human being. And did not answer any of my emails. Apparently he already has 300 CVs from TOGAF Certified Architects. He also told me I was rude, I probably came accross as being a little abrupt due to having to be so pushy to get a phone call through. So that didn't really go very well, already has his short list before hes even looked at my CV, which was a very strong match to the job. I guess everyone just slaps all the keywords in their CV including TOGAF, whether they have them or not.
What a tulip market.
I need a plan B. Open a coffee shop or something.
Most side hustles arent as easy as the Youtube course shillers pretend and will take significant grind to get to salary replacement levels is the problem
Now its looking increasingly like I will have to go deeper into the side hustle and abandon IT altogether though. Luckily I have skill outside of IT but it wont be straightforward and will probably mean being self employed forever with what Ive got planned
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Originally posted by dsc View PostLI jobs seems full with perm jobs in my industry, but pay is on 2015 levels and 95% are hybrid which is probably the most annoying tulipe ever.
I’ve had the other extreme as well where a hybrid role turned out to be a 4 days/week presence in Liverpool but the recruiter advertised it as hybrid as he wasn’t getting enough applications when the ad said on-site.
My current contract was advertised as hybrid far-off-northern-city but to all intents and purposes it’s a remote role with occasional visits to the office. I’ve only had to visit twice in 5 months.
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This thread is taking a disturbing turn down the 'job' (perm) side!
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Originally posted by dsc View PostYup, seen that as well, on a lot I see 3yrs+ which makes me thing if you have over 10yrs, it's a quick rejection.Last edited by Fraidycat; Yesterday, 17:41.
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Originally posted by tsmith View Post[...]Oh asking salary is defacto standard now almost. And most roles seem to be 3 to 5 years experience. How can everything be 3 to 5 years?
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Originally posted by edisonIn my niche, current advertised salaries seem all over the place. I'm seeing some at around the same package or slightly lower than I was on as a perm between 2008 and 2011. Quite a few are significantly lower.
The perm application process is such a faff. Started doing an application for a well known travel company and it asks for salary but you can only put in a single number, not a range. There's not that much detail in the advert so I can't fully gauge the scope and level of responsibilities, so how can I put in a single figure? It just seems a way to force people to lower their expectations to get past what is probably a candidate knockout question.
Btw I'm fairly sure most job offers just get recycled on LI, I've signed up to a few job alerts and at the start it said 200-500+ job offers across Europe, but now daily I get maybe 2/3 new ones per day, so yeah
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Originally posted by dsc View PostLI jobs seems full with perm jobs in my industry, but pay is on 2015 levels and 95% are hybrid which is probably the most annoying tulipe ever. It does absolutely nothing to increase the amount of people applying, as anyone further than driveable distance from the office will pass anyway. EU jobs (got an EU passport) are similar, the ones I applied to straight away ask if you are ok relocating as you have to be local and of course it's all hybrid. On top of this they ask for your expected salary range and there's no salary brackets shown anywhere on the job spec. Oh and everything takes absolute effin ages...
How I missed perm
The perm application process is such a faff. Started doing an application for a well known travel company and it asks for salary but you can only put in a single number, not a range. There's not that much detail in the advert so I can't fully gauge the scope and level of responsibilities, so how can I put in a single figure? It just seems a way to force people to lower their expectations to get past what is probably a candidate knockout question.
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Originally posted by CoolCat View Post
yes all of that is true.
best indication of whether a large project or programme will be a success, is whether enough of the senior people on it have regularly produced success in the past. not methodology, not BS on slides, or any of the rest of it.
the only real genuine transformation stuff now is mergers & acquisitions where there is real business imperative to do things to join together, improve, change, & sometimes separate out different businesses. sometimes you get something similar when a big org wants to setup a brand new division. the number of interviews I have been to where the interviewing side are convinced they are going to bring about great change by simply using a slightly different methodology is high, often they have not got the 1st idea what they are doing, it can be hard not to just openly laugh at them, but these people exist, and in the land of the blind the one eyed giant is king.
Most of what companies called transformation is really digitisation of old legacy systems and processes or technology refreshes.
I worked on one so called transformation programme for two years that was estimated to take 3 years. Ended up taking over 6 years and by the time it was finished, the company was really only on at a level with their competitors from years before. And had spent twice as much as forecasted.
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Finally got through to the recruitment consultant I have been chasing since friday. Took at least 6 phone calls to finally make contact with a human being. And did not answer any of my emails. Apparently he already has 300 CVs from TOGAF Certified Architects. He also told me I was rude, I probably came accross as being a little abrupt due to having to be so pushy to get a phone call through. So that didn't really go very well, already has his short list before hes even looked at my CV, which was a very strong match to the job. I guess everyone just slaps all the keywords in their CV including TOGAF, whether they have them or not.
What a tulip market.
I need a plan B. Open a coffee shop or something.
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Ha so true.
Just started one. They ask for a password on page 1. Choose a password then it expands to another FOUR pages
With a check box. "This role is hybrid. With some days in Andover. Are you happy to commute to Andover?"
Some days in Bendover
Ahhh yeaa thats a hard pass.
Oh asking salary is defacto standard now almost. And most roles seem to be 3 to 5 years experience. How can everything be 3 to 5 years?
Just messaged a senior guy directly to apply to him on a role I got rejected for 2 weeks and got "Oh yes thats not a senior role"
I agree I think you need to be putting in 2010 salaries in those 'required salary' boxes if not its rejection central.
More and more 6 months FTC - gone from Outside IR35 to Inside IR35 to FTC - getting progressively worse- How about outside the workforce altogether.
Probably 10 years of contracting puts them off too. I did reject a perm role last year- god bad vibes from it - probably shouldnt have done that in retrospect.
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LI jobs seems full with perm jobs in my industry, but pay is on 2015 levels and 95% are hybrid which is probably the most annoying tulipe ever. It does absolutely nothing to increase the amount of people applying, as anyone further than driveable distance from the office will pass anyway. EU jobs (got an EU passport) are similar, the ones I applied to straight away ask if you are ok relocating as you have to be local and of course it's all hybrid. On top of this they ask for your expected salary range and there's no salary brackets shown anywhere on the job spec. Oh and everything takes absolute effin ages...
How I missed perm
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