Originally posted by PerfectStorm
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Previously on "Most common role you are approached for."
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Inside roles at Tuppence Ha'Penny per day working with one of the 'Big 7 Consulting Firms', Clockwatchers & Co
Well, not always. But I do like to laugh at those ones.
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Business analyst roles at random consultancies which have been around less time than a prawn sandwich from Pret, and will probably expire before said sandwich!
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Originally posted by SussexSeagull View Post
Funnily enough Sky are advertising for testers at the moment.
I always knocked it back because of the b***ache of travel. Trains are a nightmare, I preferred the fast Virgin Train to Euston and then jump around on the London Underground to Victoria or Liverpool Street station (You know Zone 1 only clients). Therefore I refused to drive M1/M40 daily. I also hear that it is a missmanagement of developers / qa / testers since the pandemic, because of hybrid / fully remote in fighting ...
The other place is Tescos in Welwyn Garden City ... "We're Digital. We're Agile." They are nothing special IMHO compared to Sainsbury's Digital etc. Terrible interview process (2016/2017). J.f.C!Last edited by rocktronAMP; 25 January 2023, 20:32.
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Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
Not my experience. Although having worked there I don't get a single call. And in my experience most of the contractors are there forever. Proper sweet target for HMRC. I thought they'd be next after GSK for the letters.
Who is approaching you? Their internal people or an agent on their PSL?
To be clear, the roles were in a specific niche so may have not been representative of all of their IT department and hiring.
Last time I heard about a role there was pre-Covid I think.
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Originally posted by TheDude View PostSky in Osterley an Standard Chartered are two others.
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Originally posted by ladymuck View PostI'm usually approached for roles that have absolutely no bearing on my actual skillset
Also getting approached for a lot of purple unicorn roles which have been written to combine the work of ten people and they seem genuinely surprised I am not interested.
In my niche BP at Sunbury is the always advertised role which must have monster churn - crap place to get to and really poor rates.
Selfridges lost a lot of good contractors (me included) with their blanket PSC ban.
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Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
Oddly I always get contacted by Ford. I live in the wrong part of London to bother with them.
Sky TV is another. Mmm, weekday mornings on the M4, no thank you.
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Originally posted by eek View Post
That's Nigel Frank - hassle contractors and partners / end users until they give in.
qh
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I used to get calls about Deloitte daily.
Another was the firm that runs the Oyster card system
TFL was another regular call
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