All I can say is my last but one contract finished June 16 and it has been nothing but hard work finding new contracts or getting a decent rate ever since. I am reluctant to blame the result for my woes as we might have been due a downturn anyway but it probably hasn't helped.
We are getting into the range of where a long contract will go past March 19 so I imagine Europeans are reluctant to employ British people until our fates are decided (although on the upside the same is true for Europeans over here).
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Originally posted by clearedforlanding View Post
It seems in order to work in Belgium one must enjoy being fleeced by the taxman and enjoy speaking with a throat infection.
I used to have a joke about the Belgians being famous only for chocolates and child abuse; and the chocolate was only to get to the kids......
then Jimmy bloody Savile........
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostThis is quite true. I've been seeing this recently on many German websites and is quite a new development. You would always see it on French/German/Belgian/etc. job adverts but German ones were quite happy to accept people who were primarily English speaking (with poor German) but no longer.
It's Flemish and secondly my first language is French having grown up in Belgium.
It seems in order to work in Belgium one must enjoy being fleeced by the taxman and enjoy speaking with a throat infection.
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Originally posted by clearedforlanding View Post
One thing I have noticed is a steady increase of clients in Germany requiring German language skills (presumably as a filter - companies where working and documentation language is English). Some have even been as blatant (for longer term projects) to ask for a passport other than UK. I doubt this is yet legal.
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Originally posted by BR14 View PostHave the rules changed again? - what's this doing in Prof forum?
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Originally posted by Eirikur View PostBe careful posting fake facts yourself. Youth unemployment in Germany is the lowest in the entire EU, almost half of that in the UK
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...-eu-countries/
I meant southern Europe.
Not fake facts but just poorly presented.
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CFL I am having the same issue. Rates on JS are mostly a joke; I saw someone after a 3rd line infrastructure guy with a skills list as long as your leg for £220 a day, in LONDON! 3rd line in London is £300 minimum and most would consider that more 2nd line / desktop support.
It's taken me since Jan 3rd to line up 3 interviews and most of them have come at the same time, so stick at it and something will come off. Everywhere is just a little slow.
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostOh. Another B word that should not be spoken. Benchtime incoming in 10...9....
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Oh. Another B word that should not be spoken. Benchtime incoming in 10...9....
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Originally posted by Lance View PostAnd the Germans know they need to wean themselves off UK contracting resource in case the worst happens next March.
Oh my. I am entertaining Indians.
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Originally posted by Lance View PostCareful. Them lot don't like facts and stuff.
You'll be defacing this safe space with evidence at this rate.
To answer the question. Market is slow all over. As for Europe, they have the largest youth unemployment problem in decades and that is bound to squeeze rates.
And the Germans know they need to wean themselves off UK contracting resource in case the worst happens next March.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...-eu-countries/
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Originally posted by clearedforlanding View PostWe'll see. It's not an opinion on Brexit, rather a first hand account of Brexit impact on UK contractors.....
You'll be defacing this safe space with evidence at this rate.
To answer the question. Market is slow all over. As for Europe, they have the largest youth unemployment problem in decades and that is bound to squeeze rates.
And the Germans know they need to wean themselves off UK contracting resource in case the worst happens next March.
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