Recession rates

[B Maqueira]

Perhaps we should try to advertise the  jobs.perl.org mailing list  
more aggressively to companies that use perl as the best way of  
advertising perl jobs without agencies. I think the list does a great  
job, but there are usually many job ads only available via agencies  
and "job-sites" (some of them fake I suppose).


On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Dave Cross <dave at dave.org.uk> wrote:

> Paul Makepeace wrote:
>> Has anyone found the recession/depression affecting contracting  
>> rates? I was
>> surprised to have a recruiter recently suggest a bunch of candidates
>> for £375/day
>
> I saw this today[1], advertising for a pretty impressive list of  
> skills for £175/day. I think the company were taking the piss. I've  
> seen other things on stupid money over the last few weeks too.
>
> Personally, I haven't seen any drop in the number of phone calls and  
> emails that I'm getting. And I've just started another contract at  
> 10% more than the previous one.
>
> And, bizarrely, I'm getting lots of enquiries about running training  
> courses. I guess that companies want to ensure they're getting the  
> most out of their employees.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave...
>
> [1] http://www.jobsite.co.uk/cgi-bin/vacdetails.pl?selection=931442513