Reply to: How Progressive...

[tim123]

£5mil they are either,

1. Telling porky pies.
2. Made a mistake and added an extra 0
3. Telling the truth but making it sound much more grand, the £5mil I suppose could include ongoing support, hardware, liciensing costs.

I don't know anything about buying a commercial database, but it always amazes me just how much such a project is stated to have cost.

5 mil seems at the low end, so I can believe that they could spend this much.

And I see no reason why hardware and licensing costs shouldn't be included in the spend, ISTM that this is actually going to be a significant amount of the total.

What do Oracle etc charge for such a licence? 500 grand, a million perhaps?

tim

[El_Diablo]

You must've felt very proud of yourself.

I did apologise. I lost it.

[Churchill]

Yes they are Regressive indeed, I nearly made a female consultant cry there once, foolish thing she was.

You must've felt very proud of yourself.

[El_Diablo]

Yes they are Regressive indeed, I nearly made a female consultant cry there once, foolish thing she was.

[NotAllThere]

I have just reviewed 3 CV's sent through from Progressive.

All I can say is, words fail me.

A while back, HR at one company insisted on using Progressive. "The CVs look really good". So, we invited candidates to interview. They didn't turn up.

HR insisted after that on NOT using Progressive. At least one of those candidates, we found out later, was not aware his CV was put forward, and wasn't available.

[Hemingfield]

So (alledgedly) this one agency of job pimps have reaped in enough profits off of our hard work to hand a cool five mil over to a 'Yellow Pages' database?

I'd love to know who sold it to them - I bet they had ties with the CSA computer overhaul! If it was it is probably one poor manager getting a thousand unrelated CVs landing in his 'In' tray every morning.

[TheFaQQer]

OMG:


"We have just invested 5 million pounds in a market leading database, which allows us to mailshot your CV to over 1000 managers each day. "

I would be quite annoyed if an agency sent my CV to 1000 people every day.

Not for nothing are they known as Aggressive.

[oraclesmith]

So which of you MS-Access contractors has been building a database for Progressive?

They would have done better by offering a bounty on permie managers names and contact details - say a tenner each?

[XperTest]

£5mil they are either,

1. Telling porky pies.
2. Made a mistake and added an extra 0
3. Telling the truth but making it sound much more grand, the £5mil I suppose could include ongoing support, hardware, liciensing costs.

All 3 things agents are very good at

I/you wish..

[Bumfluff]

£5mil they are either,

1. Telling porky pies.
2. Made a mistake and added an extra 0
3. Telling the truth but making it sound much more grand, the £5mil I suppose could include ongoing support, hardware, liciensing costs.

All 3 things agents are very good at

[Churchill]

I have just reviewed 3 CV's sent through from Progressive.

All I can say is, words fail me.

Obviously...

[Wilmslow]

I have just reviewed 3 CV's sent through from Progressive.

All I can say is, words fail me.

[ChimpMaster]

This is hilarious. They should be called Degenerative rather than Progressive. Or maybe Progressive Disorder.

[dude69]

OMG:


"We have just invested 5 million pounds in a market leading database, which allows us to mailshot your CV to over 1000 managers each day. "

I would be quite annoyed if an agency sent my CV to 1000 people every day.

[oracleslave]

We missed an opportunity there!

I'd have done it for £4.5 million for them.

We'd have done it for 2.25 million each.