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    Originally posted by jayn200 View Post
    For most agents its not a career. Turnover is extremely high, majority of recruiters do it as another job they eventually quit or get fired from and move onto the next random sales/admin job with no real thought towards their career.

    The career recruiters who have been doing it for a while and will be doing it forever can be decent people who do a good job just happens to be that we don't run into them quite as often because there aren't as many of them, these ones should all be able to hold onto their jobs though.
    The latter tend to go off and start their own companies.
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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      Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
      Darren will do it in Newbury if the parking works out.
      By the sounds of it they're expecting the contractor to have their own campervan.

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        Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post

        Makes me want to jack this lark in and become a plumber or sparky.
        The guy who re fitted my garage roof after the cowboys had butchered it is building his own house. I am tempted to ask him if he needs another handyman for it.

        qh will make brews
        He had a negative bluety on a quackhandle and was quadraspazzed on a lifeglug.

        I look forward to your all knowing and likely sarcastic and unhelpful reply.

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          Anybody got any new contracts or perm job, guys?
          Personally, I have had zero contacts from pimps for the past 2 weeks.
          Had applied for quite a few roles.

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            Same here, big fat nothing

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              Originally posted by CosmicWave View Post
              Anybody got any new contracts or perm job, guys?
              Personally, I have had zero contacts from pimps for the past 2 weeks.
              Had applied for quite a few roles.
              Wait till you get to 7 months before you complain

              2 weeks indeed


              Sent from my iPhone using Contractor UK Forum

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                I was reluctant to accept a crappy perm offer that I received a couple weeks ago. But as each day goes by and the economic reality gets clearer, the crappy offer is looking like a great deal in the current climate. Although I still haven't received the contract...big red flag
                Last edited by sira; 14 September 2020, 08:20.

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                  Originally posted by sira View Post
                  I was reluctant to accept a crappy perm offer that I received a couple weeks ago. But as each day goes by, the crappy offer is looking like a great deal in the current climate. Although I still haven't received the contract...big red flag
                  It would be really helpful to get an understanding of:

                  1) Where in the country you are
                  2) Industry
                  3) Approx day rate before covid
                  4) Approx salary now being put forward

                  That way with numbers people can get a good feel for what the new normal looks like

                  Of course round the numbers so that they cannot be traced to you and just specify london manchester birmingham scotland etc

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                    Originally posted by LondonPM1 View Post
                    It would be really helpful to get an understanding of:

                    1) Where in the country you are
                    2) Industry
                    3) Approx day rate before covid
                    4) Approx salary now being put forward

                    That way with numbers people can get a good feel for what the new normal looks like

                    Of course round the numbers so that they cannot be traced to you and just specify london manchester birmingham scotland etc
                    1) UK - it's remote work
                    2) IT Consulting
                    3) £800
                    4) You'll be lucky to get £70k perm (was until recently £120k or so).
                    merely at clientco for the entertainment

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                      Originally posted by LondonPM1 View Post
                      It would be really helpful to get an understanding of:

                      1) Where in the country you are
                      2) Industry
                      3) Approx day rate before covid
                      4) Approx salary now being put forward

                      That way with numbers people can get a good feel for what the new normal looks like

                      Of course round the numbers so that they cannot be traced to you and just specify london manchester birmingham scotland etc
                      Financial services - I had a perm offer pre-covid. This post-covid perm offer is 20% lower.

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