Reply to: State of the Market

[sadkingbilly]

so far, so good......
so far, so good..........

[SchumiStars]

https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandp...-b1273514.html

Unemployment will peak this year.
London is suffering from lack of hospitality, tourism and rental incomes.

...so it looks like we have not quite hit the bottom yet.

[sadkingbilly]

I made that mistake in my last 'fat' contract. I didn't really notice the volume of recruiter calls dropping off over the two years I was there and assumed I would walk straight into another contract at a similar rate as I had always done in the past.

Keep an eye on the market and be prepared. It is always better to learn new skills when you are being paid.

I'm a Zseries sysprog. i REALLY don't care. <i virtually don't care too>
As for 'new skills', I get those from release notes for latest IBM Z/OS versions.

[TheDude]

I also am not looking, so i don't care.

I made that mistake in my last 'fat' contract. I didn't really notice the volume of recruiter calls dropping off over the two years I was there and assumed I would walk straight into another contract at a similar rate as I had always done in the past.

Keep an eye on the market and be prepared. It is always better to learn new skills when you are being paid.

[sadkingbilly]

I also am not looking, so i don't care.

[quackhandle]

Not looking myself either but not seeing what you are seeing. Market hasn't improved at all as far as I can tell.

I'm not looking, but have seen a massive uptick in emails / DMs via Linkedin these past 2-3 weeks, probably had more contact in Feb/Mar than the previous 12 months. All sorts.... perm, inside, outside and FTC.

I think it's a bit of both.

qh

[avonleigh]

I'm not looking, but have seen a massive uptick in emails / DMs via Linkedin these past 2-3 weeks, probably had more contact in Feb/Mar than the previous 12 months. All sorts.... perm, inside, outside and FTC.

Not looking myself either but not seeing what you are seeing. Market hasn't improved at all as far as I can tell.

[Ketto]

I'm not looking, but have seen a massive uptick in emails / DMs via Linkedin these past 2-3 weeks, probably had more contact in Feb/Mar than the previous 12 months. All sorts.... perm, inside, outside and FTC.

[Bluenose]

I am also keeping a monthly eye on the HAYS share price graph, it is not improving, the 6 month now looks pretty brutal - a 25% loss.

If it continues into March that will be a 4 year bear market.

......Which it has, HAYS shareholders now sitting on a -34% loss on the 6 month. Where is the bottom for HAYS and the UK contract market?

From their report at the end of Feb. "Group net fees decreased by 9%. Temp & Contracting, down 7%, was more resilient than Perm, down 14%. As guided at our January trading update, pre-exceptional operating profit decreased 25% YoY to £20.1 million."

[willendure]

Are you sure user willendure is Scooter?

I am unsure.

If that's the calm alter ego of scooterscot then we should be thankful.

Oh wait, Scooter is the manic, and I am the depressive alter ego?

You guys are funny.

[Bluenose]

I agree with Quakhandle but I would also agree with a big uptick in people doing daily AI generated posts just so they can show the world they are interesting.

These people forget that ten years ago people used to exchange useful information on it that was RELEVANT rather than a daily life blog that does not refer, in any way, shape or form to what they do, no insight, no real value, just vapid facebook dairy stuff. Nobody has the bottle to tell them to pack it in because its a professional tool.

[TheDude]

Just been told I can ignore the billable days limit in my contract and work all days in March rather than be forced to take 12 days off.

Not sure if that is a good thing...

[quackhandle]

LinkedIn is what you make of it. Any annoying, boring posts I just unfollow, simples.

Any pimps that want my CV that I don't trust there is a gig I just tell them read/ show client my profile is it more-or-less up to date and shows my skills.

I've gotten a quite a few gigs from LI and there are some decent posters out there putting up technical/interesting posts in my field, that I wouldn't get to read otherwise so I don't mind it. Also handy for checking out people who are going to interview you.

qh

[jamesbrown]

It's unlikely to be poopersnot as he doesn't have the IQ to mask his infinitely dull personality.

[agentzero]

Scooter is just showing us graphs, the ones that say the sky is falling are very important and 100000% correct (even if completely irrelevant or taken out of context). The ones that say things are improving must be ignored.
I was speaking to a guy who works at a consultancy the other day and they are trying to recruit 20 people in the next year due to growth. I passed their details on to a couple of contractors I know and respect who aren't in work at the minute.

Are you sure user willendure is Scooter? I remember being accused, by you I think, of being multiple accounts purely as I used a common VPN exit node. Check again and do let us know. If the IP resolves to a broadband account both used then it's more likely to be one user.

I don't think scooterscot would have left this forum and a new account would make sense. I'm an infrequent visitor here but at least willendure isn't promoting bitcoin and other rubbish constantly here. If that's the calm alter ego of scooterscot then we should be thankful.