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[darmstadt]

Probably like the most of you here, I get a daily e-mail with a tailored listing of contracts available and it quite astonishes me sometimes as to how stupid agencies must think we are. For example todays had the following job specs in it:

Position: Mainframe Developer - Solihull
Location: Solihull
Rate: £23 - £24 per hour

followed by:

Position: IBM Mainframe Support Consultant-DB2-VS Cobol-IMS/DC-Midlands
Location: Midlands
Rate: up to £26.50 /Hour

Both are the same job yet 2 different rates. Guess which one is an S3 company and to which agency most people would apply to? Interestingly enough, the link to the lower paid one no longer exists.

Also I like the one that had this:

Rate: 550.00 /Hour Neg

For months now (8+) there has been the specs for Teradata specialists in the Knutsford area which makes me think the positions do not exist and jobs based on the following:

Position: DB2 DBA-French Speaker- Czech Republic
Location: Czech Republic
Rate: Euros 1400 - 1700 per Month

The job description has varied here (I never knew iSeries were mainframes) but all ways in the Czech Republic, always the same rate (this is a permie job BTW) which is probably okay for there but what about relocation, etc.? What gets me about this one is that they hark on about the cheap cost of living and the country before actually saying anything about the job.