Benchwarming tactics/strategy mixed bag
Morning folks,
I'm a long term permie (decent warchest built up) looking at grabbing my first contract. I am happy to stay a permie until my parachute arrives, and happy with the risks associated of grabbing the parachute, jumping out of the plane and the parachute failing to open.
With that in mind and after reading about lots of folk "benchwarming" I was wondering if any of you folk had any specific tips you use for searching for a new gig.
As I am new to this I don’t have a network of contractor contacts who I can "tap up" for work and am currently going through cwjobs, jobserve, itjobboard and monster. Tweaking my CV for each application to show me in the best possible light.
Any websites that I am not checking that I should be checking ?
Is it worth getting on the phone and speaking to agencies direct and "having me on their books"
Anything else that I defintely should be/should not be doing ?
Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. Apologies if the above have been answered in other threads but a quick search didnt have any specific advice ref searches and particular websites/techniques.
I'm a long term permie (decent warchest built up) looking at grabbing my first contract. I am happy to stay a permie until my parachute arrives, and happy with the risks associated of grabbing the parachute, jumping out of the plane and the parachute failing to open.
With that in mind and after reading about lots of folk "benchwarming" I was wondering if any of you folk had any specific tips you use for searching for a new gig.
As I am new to this I don’t have a network of contractor contacts who I can "tap up" for work and am currently going through cwjobs, jobserve, itjobboard and monster. Tweaking my CV for each application to show me in the best possible light.
Any websites that I am not checking that I should be checking ?
Is it worth getting on the phone and speaking to agencies direct and "having me on their books"
Anything else that I defintely should be/should not be doing ?
Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. Apologies if the above have been answered in other threads but a quick search didnt have any specific advice ref searches and particular websites/techniques.
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