Yeah, I think it's called "global recession". This has the effect that companies, those that are still around, can and will call the shots.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Aaron Trevena <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
