So, do we think Jan and Feb will be buoyant months for new contracts?

[Scrag Meister]

I'm sure hope its going to be a good Jan and Feb.

Otherwise it'll be the first non-self-imposed benchtime I've ever had.

[Fred Bloggs]

Please tell me these are North West Roles....

I can't speak for those, but the roles I referred to were/are indeed in the NW, Manchester and Warrington areas.

[wantacontract]

well so far Jan has been a dud for me...

[PropertyCrashUK]

I have been offered a role with a public sector body in Wales paying good money... but it is basically 3 people's jobs in 1 on a very demanding project... other IT boys have told me to walk away as it would be very stressful... one said a killer...

The money is tempting and the work would last the year... but would I...

I think I will give it a miss and hope something better comes along.

[VirtualMonkey]

I've been getting lots of cold calls as well. Much more than I would normally expect. Things do seem to be picking up.
Not sure if they are trawls though as I'm lucky enough to have just been offered another 3 month extension at current clientco and have been politely telling people that.
Not sure why agents would disguise trawls to be honest (although I'm fairly sure they do)....in my opinion if an agency wants to get up to date CVs and details they only have to ask or send a mailshot. Got to be good for us if they know when we're likely to be available and have a current idea of what we're looking for and the rate we want (or will accept).
Is that just an innocent way of looking at things though?

[jmo21]

I have been offered a role with a public sector body in Wales paying good money... but it is basically 3 people's jobs in 1 on a very demanding project... other IT boys have told me to walk away as it would be very stressful... one said a killer...

The money is tempting and the work would last the year... but would I...

I think I will give it a miss and hope something better comes along.

Only permies get stressed.

[jmo21]

Not sure why agents would disguise trawls to be honest (although I'm fairly sure they do)....in my opinion if an agency wants to get up to date CVs and details they only have to ask or send a mailshot.

Trawling is not about just getting uptodate CV's, it's getting the names of people who work at the companies on your CV.

[TOSH1]

I've ahd a few calls but nothing concrete yet.

[kingcook]

Only permies get stressed.

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[Svalbaard]

The irony is that I've just renewed my current contract for another 6 months and I'm getting about 5 decent sounding agency calls a week.

The downside though is that they are mostly in London and I swore that after Merrill Lynch "never again".