Jobserve

[lambrini_socialist]

My point was that in recent days Jobserve ads appear to have gone off the edge of a cliff. Suddenly. Either that or Jobserve is kaput.

i dunno. i've been checking a bit this week (ever since i heard the words "rate cuts" at clientco)

.NET development in London doesn't look all that bad to me (admittedly i've only been contracting just under 2 years).

[swamp]

Quite right: Britain for the Beaker Folk, that's my attitude...

It's time to get rid of all these Johnny come lately foreign types*.

Then we can make our beakers in peace.


*Like the Celts, the Romans, the Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Normans etc.

I reckon I'm the true descendent of the Beaker people. I want to be Head Beaker, or at least have a big cup.

[TimberWolf]

Deary me, do I really have to explain this?
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My point was that in recent days Jobserve ads appear to have gone off the edge of a cliff. Suddenly. Either that or Jobserve is kaput.

[TykeMerc]

Quite right: Britain for the Beaker Folk, that's my attitude...

It's time to get rid of all these Johnny come lately foreign types*.

Then we can make our beakers in peace.


*Like the Celts, the Romans, the Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Normans etc.

I didn't know that the Beaker People were giant alien lizards, fascinating fact for the day, thanks

[AlfredJPruffock]

What really sums up the employment market is that there was a queue of over 3,000 people last week for 150 seasonal jobs at Twycross Zoo.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...b-seekers.html

Well you know what they say - Pay Peanuts and you get ....

[Cyberman]

I think that's great. It shows the British have a hunger to work.

I agree, but the really sad thing is that we have a government that allows mass immigration into the UK because they are convinced that people in the UK do not want to take up low-paying jobs.

This proves what a lie that really is and the damage that is unnecessarily being done to our standards of living(eg: extra burdens on NHS, transport system, schools, housing, benefits system etc, ), by this stupid policy.

[TimberWolf]

Will I get to shovel manure? I do plenty of that at clientco.

To answer the question that you omitted to ask, I have added a poll.

[BrilloPad]

What really sums up the employment market is that there was a queue of over 3,000 people last week for 150 seasonal jobs at Twycross Zoo.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...b-seekers.html

Will I get to shovel manure? I do plenty of that at clientco.

[Pickle2]

I think that's great. It shows the British have a hunger to work.

Or that we just like animals.

[swamp]

What really sums up the employment market is that there was a queue of over 3,000 people last week for 150 seasonal jobs at Twycross Zoo.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...b-seekers.html

I think that's great. It shows the British have a hunger to work.

[Cyberman]

What really sums up the employment market is that there was a queue of over 3,000 people last week for 150 seasonal jobs at Twycross Zoo.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...b-seekers.html

[DimPrawn]

Deary me, do I really have to explain this?

During a boom time, agents have contracts that need filling and they have a pool of CV's on their computers. However, often the contractors that match will be in gainful work and can't fill the role.

Therefore agents will expend time and money putting contracts online to gather "benched" or "nearly benched" contractors to fill the roles.

During a great depression, like Brown's Depression we have now, there are few contract roles and the agents PC's are bursting with matching "benched" contractors.

Hence there is no need to advertise roles. Roles are matched to CV's at the agents office at no cost to the agents.

HTH

[swamp]

Jobserve is working at reduced capacity because there have been so many job postings by agents desperate to find contractors. They're working on an emergency database fix, and when that's in Jobserve will rocket to levels not seen since early 2000.

[AlfredJPruffock]

I have been subscribed to jobserve alerts for some some now and used to receive a steady trickle of contract ads (perhaps dozens a day at one time). Recently the number I have received has slowed down markedly; yesterday none at all and today only two so far. Is it Jobserve or the contract market that is totally and utterly kaput and beyond repair?

It's All in the Mind.

Dont forget start of March has always been a bit slow.

[TimberWolf]

I have been subscribed to jobserve alerts for some some now and used to receive a steady trickle of contract ads (perhaps dozens a day at one time). Recently the number I have received has slowed down markedly; yesterday none at all and today only two so far. Is it Jobserve or the contract market that is totally and utterly kaput and beyond repair?