Another permie thinking he can do a contractor's job

[oscarose]

WMALS + 1


To improve your chances, you need to have a ‘skill’ that stands out. Focus on something on your CV that is your area of ‘expertise’. If you aren’t currently an ‘expert’ in that area brush up on it and blag it (this could be a problem if you’ve been pushing paper for years ).

HTH

[UsefulG]

I've been hands on all the time that I've been a manager so I have the day to day operational skills but the technology in my current job is so old (MS 2003 server etc) I need to get hands on newer stuff. I will never get that here so If I go it will be an uncertain future with the skillset I have or stay and become totally irrelevant. Not a great choice.

Is there no hope for a hardworking jack of all trades?

[TestMangler]

I've been hands on all the time that I've been a manager so I have the day to day operational skills but the technology in my current job is so old (MS 2003 server etc) I need to get hands on newer stuff. I will never get that here so If I go it will be an uncertain future with the skillset I have or stay and become totally irrelevant. Not a great choice.

Is there no hope for a hardworking jack of all trades?

Don't listen to the doom mongers mate. I'm a hardworking jack of all trades and had nearly 18 years of contracting, getting by with just a cute smile, make 'em laugh attitude and a much bigger than average whang. Play to your strengths and you'll be fine

[malvolio]

Don't listen to the doom mongers mate. I'm a hardworking jack of all trades and had nearly 18 years of contracting, getting by with just a cute smile, make 'em laugh attitude and a much bigger than average whang. Play to your strengths and you'll be fine

I'm not a doom monger, al I'm saying is to apply for jobs where you can offer something of immediate relevance. Going for a job just becuase you've done some bits of it isn't going to work.

I'm bascially a generalilst myself, with a practical working knowledge of almost any area of IT you can mention bar coding (shudder...), but I major in Service Management and/or Programme Management to get me past the agency wonks: even then, I often get kicked back for the lack of some (usually irrelevant)specific technical or vertical knowledge. Once I'm talking to the hirer I can usually persuade them I know what I'm doing.

But going into that market cold, or with unrealistic expectations, is likely to be an unnpleasant experience.