Just had a chat with Stewart of Novate, seems a nice enough chap (hello again *wave*) about my beef with the wierd stipulation of living in Bath for the advertised 50k perl role in Bath.
I still think the ad was lacking some pretty important info, such as the client's strict stipulation that you absolutely postively have to live in or very near bath (because leaving 30 mins early on a friday would be utterly impossible), any description at all of why you might want to work there beyond the salary, any description of what the role actually entails, etc. So Novate-IT aren't all bad, just have some client's with oddly strict requirements and some unhelpfully sparse job ads. I still contend that the IT job market in the southwest is pretty much stagnant, bath and bristol used to have some lifeblood, but it looks much worse now than when I last looked about 3 years ago, and the further west you go it's even worse - cornwall manages to not only have few jobs but patheticly poor salary - something is very wrong when you can get more with a 12 months experience working in retail banking than a degree and years of experience in programming (for instance realtime/embeded C++ for medicine, < 25 grand, non-junior web dev 18 grand). A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
