Just had a call about a role in Norway, they couldn't tell me anything about the role other than the client was WiPro and that they needed a start date and a minimum rate.
Where in Norway, as it's a big country - they didn't know
Any potential for flexible / remote working - they didn't know
The actual end client - unknown
What the role looked like day to day - couldn't tell me
Rate - circa £400/day
This is for a role that would often get £600-£700 in London before Norway's tax situation, travel costs and general expensive living is taken into account.
Has anyone ever actually taken a role from Bullhorn Reach, Damco, Silverlink or one of the other many seemingly clueless bunch? Am I being unfair?
I tried to explain I was keen on a role more focussed on what I have spent much of last decade doing (Citrix & VMware architecture, design, implementation) rather than the slightly too fluffy stuff I'm doing at the moment (more EA/strategy) and that I could be flexible on rate accordingly, especially if the client could be flexible on location, hours and so on. If everything had stacked up I might even have considered the abysmal rate had the opportunity proved interesting. It was however like speaking to somebody who couldn't understand plain English. Oh.
Aaargh...
Where in Norway, as it's a big country - they didn't know
Any potential for flexible / remote working - they didn't know
The actual end client - unknown
What the role looked like day to day - couldn't tell me
Rate - circa £400/day
This is for a role that would often get £600-£700 in London before Norway's tax situation, travel costs and general expensive living is taken into account.
Has anyone ever actually taken a role from Bullhorn Reach, Damco, Silverlink or one of the other many seemingly clueless bunch? Am I being unfair?
I tried to explain I was keen on a role more focussed on what I have spent much of last decade doing (Citrix & VMware architecture, design, implementation) rather than the slightly too fluffy stuff I'm doing at the moment (more EA/strategy) and that I could be flexible on rate accordingly, especially if the client could be flexible on location, hours and so on. If everything had stacked up I might even have considered the abysmal rate had the opportunity proved interesting. It was however like speaking to somebody who couldn't understand plain English. Oh.
Aaargh...
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