Reply to: State of the Market

[Bluenose]

There are actually some good OpenAI youtube videos as well to help you hack your next role.

In terms of linkedin the main things to do:

a) get verified
b) max out your profile tags (it allows the AI to help you better)
c) setup a LI job board search arguments for both hybrid and remote
d) setup a LI search box search arugument for the same, set a filter for <1 week
e) Make sure your CV is no longer than 2 pages long and upload it into LI.

[willendure]

Also, I switched almost enitrely to Linkedin premium these past 3 years and use the board and search facility to hunt for roles, the AI on there has improved quite significantly as well. As well as remote, apply for hybrid roles and offer 2 days, 4 days a month in the office and fly around the EU/UK from a Spanish base.

Interesting - nothing much to lose by giving it a try.

[Bluenose]

I don't wade through Linkedin myself neither. what you need to do is construct a repeatable set of search terms that allow you to see posts for roles in your chosen IT area.

[Cookielove]

Hey cookie, if you look under business / contracts and spain nomad visa you will see some of the answers you seek.

Also, I switched almost enitrely to Linkedin premium these past 3 years and use the board and search facility to hunt for roles, the AI on there has improved quite significantly as well. As well as remote, apply for hybrid roles and offer 2 days, 4 days a month in the office and fly around the EU/UK from a Spanish base.

Any questions feel free to DM me. If you are under 35 also keep an eye on the new Portugese visa.

As for IR35, if you work out of the EU you can still work an IR35 role but you wont get thumped for 2 years and after that well, as you can see on the other part of the site I am looking for a payroll brolly that can also deal in Euros. If I can then I have a plan all the way up to tax year 5.

Okay thanks, I don't have LI premium at moment, might look at getting it as I find now there is so much drivel now on LI people posting stuff more akin to Facebook...so wading through all that crap

Am not under 35 by a long shot ....and have ties so can't realistically move to Spain...

Thanks though

[squarepeg]

This is a forum for contractors so..... realistically what are people doing now/planning to do?

Moving to perm roles? or changing to something else like a total career change/down size....

Most likely. I can live/work in the EU. Never thought this would be an option I would be considering. I will be making my mind up this week after the announcement.

If this jumps by an extra 2% as is being touted and they lower the threshold what is the point..who is going to work to pay so much out in taxes each month...there surely a point where it isn't worth it...

eek

Laffer Curve entered the chat

There is a point at which you just give up and move elsewhere. I am sure one industry will be booming -- expat advice. I did get enquiries from people interested in buying my business in July but was too busy with the client. Should have kicked the client and sold it there and then.

[Bluenose]

Hey....you've missed out what you actually said which was 99% remote and paying <20% income tax with SPF25 (so sunning yourself abroad)...these jobs ain't on LinkedIn....they don't exist ticking all those boxes....like hen's teeth those jobs lol!

Hey cookie, if you look under business / contracts and spain nomad visa you will see some of the answers you seek.

Also, I switched almost enitrely to Linkedin premium these past 3 years and use the board and search facility to hunt for roles, the AI on there has improved quite significantly as well. As well as remote, apply for hybrid roles and offer 2 days, 4 days a month in the office and fly around the EU/UK from a Spanish base.

Any questions feel free to DM me. If you are under 35 also keep an eye on the new Portugese visa.

As for IR35, if you work out of the EU you can still work an IR35 role but you wont get thumped for 2 years and after that well, as you can see on the other part of the site I am looking for a payroll brolly that can also deal in Euros. If I can then I have a plan all the way up to tax year 5.

[jamesbrown]

Is this forum still moderated? This thread seems full of off-topic partisan bickering which I thought was supposed to go in general?

Tbh, state of the market has always been like this and it's probably about time it got dumped in general

[Cookielove]

This is a forum for contractors so..... realistically what are people doing now/planning to do?

Moving to perm roles? or changing to something else like a total career change/down size....

Outside roles are very very thin on the ground and I don't think that will change.

So that leaves inside IR35 via an umbrella....but we will be hammered if the changes come in tomorrow...I'm looking for work but I was working via an Umbrella and the deductions are steep as is with the current ER NI...

If this jumps by an extra 2% as is being touted and they lower the threshold what is the point..who is going to work to pay so much out in taxes each month...there surely a point where it isn't worth it...

eek

[Cookielove]

Linkedin.

Hey....you've missed out what you actually said which was 99% remote and paying <20% income tax with SPF25 (so sunning yourself abroad)...these jobs ain't on LinkedIn....they don't exist ticking all those boxes....like hen's teeth those jobs lol!

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Is this forum still moderated? This thread seems full of off-topic partisan bickering which I thought was supposed to go in general?

[Snooky]

Let's be honest here, they STOLE the election

You haven't produced any evidence to confirm this allegation, and there's plenty of evidence to the contrary. All states and districts where fraud was alleged were investigated and audited and the allegations were proven to be unfounded. There have been a number of court cases where the plaintiff has claimed voter fraud or rigged elections, all have been dismissed or found not proven.

I suppose it's convenient for you to choose to ignore these facts and stick to your own partisan view; to do otherwise would be to admit you might be mistaken.

[squarepeg]

It took a long time but the post office scandal eventually exposed dodgy software. Let's be honest here, they STOLE the election. Thankfully it's coming back home.

So, when Bush won the 2000 election and Gore went around moaning that his victory was stolen it was alright?

[SussexSeagull]

It took a long time but the post office scandal eventually exposed dodgy software. Let's be honest here, they STOLE the election. Thankfully it's coming back home.

Conspiratorial nonsense that no one has produced a shred of evidence in favour of of.

Trump lost in 2020. End of.

[ladymuck]

No probs, but I think it raises an interesting point ie. what is classed as a business and how "outsiders" see contractors. I think to most, 40hr - one client contractors are not really seen as a business and I tend to agree. Yes I get that some jump from 3-6month contract to another 3-6month contract, but I'd still class this as temp "employment" (where all the perks are simply converted into cash). Now I'll get my coat and bugger off before I get eaten alive...

Careful with that though. The analogy falls down once you start talking about trades persons. A two story house extension might take 3 months to build. Does that make your builder your employee as they're working full time on it?

The trouble is, the trades and anything done sat at a desk are considered to be worlds apart. Any office based work seems to be thought of as entirely interchangeable with getting a temp in from Office Angels but doing a trade is somehow different. Yet you might have more control over the builder - through specifying a neo-Georgian frontage with Gothic style window frames and mirrored glazing - than you would over an office worker who just needs to take minutes and type them up.

There's no easy answer and everyone will have a view that suits them the best.

[oliverson]

Please provide evidence that the 2020 Presidential Election wasn't a fair result because so far no one else has.

It took a long time but the post office scandal eventually exposed dodgy software. Let's be honest here, they STOLE the election. Thankfully it's coming back home.