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Originally posted by expat View PostNot for you maybe. I'm more concerned that this country can't make use of the rather good skills that it has. .
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Originally posted by expat View PostAlready here. Go to any British airport on Monday morning and you'll see queues of Britain's highly-skilled IT workforce going off to work - in real economies.
You won't see the equivalent in the departure halls of the airports in the countries that they are flying to.
Its not so much the British airports as Eastern European/Turkish airports. I have just placed a Korean and an Iranian into Germany at 30% margins...
Mind you I am lending them some money for flights
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Originally posted by TheBigYinJames View PostI can't wait for the modern version of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet....
You won't see the equivalent in the departure halls of the airports in the countries that they are flying to.
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostWe have about 200 contractors and I am concentrating heavily on Germany at the moment as there is a real shortage of people out there.
Static rates would do me fine, as long as the volume is still there.
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Originally posted by hgllgh View Postare rates coming down genuinely is the question then ?
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Haven't applied to many roles yet but from the responses I got, no-one used the credit crunch excuse as a means of getting my rate down (although inevitably they all tried to get me to lower it). Didn't even hear "the market is saturated with .net developers".
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Originally posted by hgllgh View Postare IT rates genuinely coming down ?
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ok ... ok ... i retracted the statement I made to the honourable gentleman some time ago
are IT rates genuinely coming down ?
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Originally posted by hgllgh View Postsigh .... i will search river deep and mountain high to go direct for my next contract ... if clients want to cut costs why don't they just cut the dodgyagents of this world out of the equation?
- they check candidate previous work references thoroughly, and don't just say "yeh he's ok"
- they do criminal records and immigration searches on them, and don't just say "yeh he's ok"
- they use their network of industry contacts to headhunt the best candidates, and they don't just trawl jobserve/jobsite boards for keyword matches
- they are specialists in their field, and don't just end up asking the candidates "yes I know it says on your CV you write HTML, but do you have any web experience?" (or my personal favourite: "Oh you have 4 years C# experience, but I need to know if you have any exposure to dotNet?")
- they look after the candidates, and take care of relaying your interview feedback to them, and don't just forget they even exist once a candidate's been chosen
It's obvious why companies use them.
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostAbsolutely we would'nt exploit the situation like that. Infact I am voluntarily dropping my, sorry margins in order to help my contractors to be as competitive as possible
It is great because they are all(bending over) at extension time
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hurry up, things are pretty good at the moment, compared to what they will be in 6 months time.
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