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    #11
    Originally posted by NetwkSupport View Post
    most IB's really need a strong back end in these troubling times...
    Is that because they're all sh!tting themselves?

    IGMC!!!

    Older and ...well, just older!!

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      #12
      Originally posted by ratewhore View Post
      Is that because they're all sh!tting themselves?

      IGMC!!!


      You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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        #13
        Originally posted by swamp View Post
        ... "£160 a day"

        I can't find it, but someone reported spotting an ad for 125 a day which explicitaly stated they would consider someone that needed a work permit.
        How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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          #14
          I can't find it, but someone reported spotting an ad for 125 a day which explicitaly stated they would consider someone that needed a work permit.
          I've heard they are asking around in the cafeteria if any of the polish workers know there way round a PC

          IGMC

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            #15
            Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post
            I can't find it, but someone reported spotting an ad for 125 a day which explicitaly stated they would consider someone that needed a work permit.
            You'll always find ads like that regardless of the stage in the economic cycle. It's just parasitic pimps trying it on...
            Older and ...well, just older!!

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              #16
              I've just phoned my young pal (CUK is banned at his current place of work)

              This is the role.

              I'm so glad I don't do this any more!
              How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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                #17
                £125-£250/Day
                thats not a huge gap is it?
                who are they kiddin

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post
                  I've just phoned my young pal (CUK is banned at his current place of work)

                  This is the role.

                  I'm so glad I don't do this any more!
                  Thats wierd because I know for a fact that Hays IT are billing the NHS trust for web developers at £600 a day. They must be making a huge wack on commission.
                  'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
                  Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by ratewhore View Post
                    You'll always find ads like that regardless of the stage in the economic cycle. It's just parasitic pimps trying it on...

                    Just had a quick check of our system for current rates (I mainly place BA/PM's - so checked with my colleagues. Recent Java/C# A/P roles have had rates between £400 and £525 per day.

                    Tester contracts going for between £350 and £450 per day.

                    Support stuff around £250 to £325 per day

                    Worth noting that the majority of these roles were for financial institutions so hiring manager's favoured candidates with financial instruments experience.
                    I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying...

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by Sockpuppet View Post
                      Probably pimps just trying it on. If no-one takes it they'll go for the real rate next week. ...
                      Plenty of people will take it though, for the chance to get some IB experience, if they can wing it in the interview with the presumably limited experience they already have.

                      I'd go for it for three months if I was looking (and knew Java). Might even have tried anyway, and wing the Java - There must be plenty of "interview question" sites one could intensively mug up on for a couple of days before the interview.
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