IT Market - buoyant or stagnent?

[chim_knee]

Right, that's it! After being dicked around once too often, I outta-here.

So, a quick look at jobserve doesn't look promising for me (VB, Sybase developer - circa 7 years Investment Bank experience etc). I think I got like 7 matches for all jobs in the past 7 days.

Does this indicate that the market sucks? or is jobserve not the site it used to be?

Anyone got any recommendations for sites like jobserve and cwjobs?

Cheers,
Phil

Balls! Just realised that I've spelled stagnant wrong in the title!

>> Edited by chim_knee on Wednesday 15th June 09:41

[pdV6]

Definately not a huge amount on JS at the moment.

Judging by the number of unsolicited emails I get from recruitment consultants for wholly inappropriate positions, I'm guessing they're going through a lean patch atm.

So... "stagnent" I would say.

[chim_knee]

pdV6 said:

So... "stagnent" I would say.

Hmmm... sadly I think you may be right.

Really not sure what I want to do. I am, along with a number of other people judging by things I have heard/read on here, so disillusioned with IT.

I tell ya... I'm not far off jacking it all in for a life of solitude and knitted jumpers!

[chim girl]

Seems to be a bit stagnant. Mr C G has found jobserve to be a bit short on new jobs at the moment. He's also getting emails via JS regarding completely inappropriate jobs, but that's nothing new!

Good luck Phil.

>> Edited by chim girl on Wednesday 15th June 09:49

[Plotloss]

Theres work out there. Customers seem to be spending the money and starting projects but they dont seem to be spending it in the usual way.

I've come accross a couple of bits in the last 3 weeks or so (and for my skills on JS I get one hit every 3 months or so...) but the customers in these situations consciously havent gone to agents prefering to find people through recommendation and then talking direct.

So Jobserve isnt entirely reflective of the market, in summary.

[chim_knee]

Thanks guys - to be honest I fancy a complete change of career... I'm trying to think of things that require creativity and the occasional lungs-fulls of sea air with a steely-middle-distance-stare atop a cliff.

Artistic Pirate is the only one I've come up with so far. Cap'n Doodle is the name I'd use... but I'm not sure of the salary prospects, hah-harr.

[pre-mentalbreakdown]I HAVE TO GET OUT OF THIS PLACE![/pre-mentalbreakdown]

Edit: Oh, and Plotty - I found a post you made a couple of years ago about Laser Recruitment. Went to their site and there seemed to be a great job on it. Only problem is that the start date was Feb this year! - I may give them a call though.

>> Edited by chim_knee on Wednesday 15th June 10:24

[Plotloss]

Go and buy 'What Color Is Your Parachute?' this lunchtime...

[chim_knee]

Plotloss said:

Go and buy 'What Color Is Your Parachute?' this lunchtime...

Will do... (along with 'What colour is ye eye-patch' )

[russ_e]

investment banks using vb? upgrade your skills to java/c# or even c++

[b'dumtish]

russ_e said:

investment banks using vb? upgrade your skills to java/c# or even c++

Yeah I know - now 7 months after I initially said I wanted this. It's a small department, massively understaffed meaning no time to give to training etc. Spend all the time firefighting really.

I wouldn't do java or c++ (just not interested) but I would like to do c#. Well, when I say I'd like to do it - it's what I'd do if I were to stay in the arena I'm in. None of it interests me to be honest.

[MarkBarton]

I don't know JS, but I regularly get reasonably sized lists of opportunities from Monster.co.uk, Totaljobs.com and particularly Planetrecruit.com. Not always appropriate of course, but interesting nonetheless.

[russ_e]

im the same - currently a c# developer but finding computing really dull at the moment.

thinking about starting up on my own - but with all the free software on the market it looks like it would be hard to make a decent living