Reply to: What's the market like at the moment

[Moscow Mule]

Yeah, as in 'one man went to mo'

mow?

or Mowlam?

[MrRobin]

"at the mo"???

Yeah, as in 'one man went to mo'

[chicane]

"at the mo"???

mo-ment. Did you find this offensive or just not understand it?

[sasguru]

Retrain as teachers. The country is crying out for decent ones - and you all seem to be very patriotic, so I'm sure you'll forgo money for the collective good.

HTH

[Euro-commuter]

It's all looking very thin on the ground up North at the mo, I'd be bricking it if I was looking for something new right now.

"at the mo"???

[chicane]

It's all looking very thin on the ground up North at the mo, I'd be bricking it if I was looking for something new right now.

[ChimpMaster]

Personally I think the market is dying - albeit slowly but noticeably right now.

Suitable jobs in my field only crop up every 3 or 4 months, and usually in numbers of 2 or 3 at the same time.

Good thing I don't give a sh1t just now.

[Moscow Mule]

It's quiet, but it is holiday season. September will be good, I know of a fair few projects in my field kicking off around then.

Anything to get me out of this hell-hole.

[tim123]

Have a search on this site - there are many many threads on this.

Yes, but they are all in 'general'.

tim

[Ruprect]

Anyone care to advise me how to change to IB?

tim

Have a search on this site - there are many many threads on this.

[BoredBloke]

Means I'm in the sh1t though

[dotnetter]

now you have to be the best of the best.

Thats alright for me then

[tim123]

It's rubbish for what I do.

I'm seeing less than one suitable job per week, in the good times it would be a dozen or more.

About 3 out of 4 applications don't result in an interview (usually because the job never existed). This is about the number it always used to be.

Finally, I'm getting a success rate at interview of less than 1 in 4, whereas historically this would be about 1 in 2. This would seem to be because the interviews that I do get are very competitive. The client is interviewing a dozen people for 2 positions, previously they would have interviewed 2 or 3 and if you didn't stuff up badly, you got the gig, now you have to be the best of the best.

So, I expect to be looking for 8-12 weeks between gigs in the current market.

Anyone care to advise me how to change to IB?

tim

[MrRobin]

No IB background so that tends to rule me out on those

Everyone has to start getting the industry experience somewhere... surely a Boom would be a good opportunity to get started if the demand outstrips the supply of IB experienced peeps?

[BoredBloke]

No IB background so that tends to rule me out on those