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Despite the hype the market is looking Pretty good - contract extension for another year - a fair few role contract and some perm if I wanted to go down that route - but I dont.
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Originally posted by Liability View PostYou want to know the funny thing? A role that was up for 88k months ago went down to 65k and I just had a call asking if Id be interested as they cant find good people!??!
What the hell did you think youd get for 60k! tossers! excuse my french
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Originally posted by engineer View PostHere in germany, I cannot observe any change in rates so far. All offers still stay at the same level. But I also do not see any rising, such as in the past two years. Seems the top has been reached.
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Originally posted by bobhope View PostThe thing is this time round, there wasn't the same IT boom as in 98-00, so may be the bust won't be as hard.
Who knows but Ive seen some good activity this week - two roles for a Jan 5th Start and another for an immediate which was a little odd as its now December and not many actual days left to work!.
Heard of 2 large projects being kicked off in the Energy sector in Feb so from my point of you Id have to be one unlucky MOFO if I dont get any of these roles
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The thing is this time round, there wasn't the same IT boom as in 98-00, so may be the bust won't be as hard.
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Here in germany, I cannot observe any change in rates so far. All offers still stay at the same level. But I also do not see any rising, such as in the past two years. Seems the top has been reached.
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostSo that is a 21.176471% cut. Could be alot worse - quite a few banks cutting rates by 10%/15%
What the hell did you think youd get for 60k! tossers! excuse my french
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Originally posted by Stan.goodvibes View PostLets be honest, if computers are so great (and mobile phones for that matter) why aren't we all working 3 days a week? The paperless office - remember that novelty idea? How come we are now working harder and longer than *before* we had this technology????
Now it's one thing that we all have to write our own letters and memos nowadays, but why oh why should everyone be trying to be a computer expert?
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2001 -2003 was way worse for me, luckly I managed to get through it but loads of people I know just gave it up, senior guys getting dropped to doing junior roles.
I can still see a few roles on jobserve in my area, I would fancy my chances of getting at least one.
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Just seen 4 jobs for Architects that have had there salaries slashed by 18k!! LOL
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