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Switching from contract to perm – why, exactly?
May 13th
The contract market within the engineering market has been notoriously lucrative in former years. Contractors, while forfeiting their right to benefits like company cars, pensions and healthcare, earned considerably higher rates than their permanent counterparts and the flexibility from the labour market that they facilitated was welcomed by hiring managers.
Contractors were appointed for a project until their skills were no longer required and released with a typical notice period of just a week – when the contractor could look towards their next role or take the family away over the school summer holidays! More >
Flexibility for a successful job search
Feb 17th
We’ve all heard about unemployment rates, hiring freezes and redundancies and few of us are under any illusion that finding work will be a breeze. Wherever you’re working, whatever role you do; if you’re looking for a new job, you’ll face stiff competition and a tough selection process as you battle against other candidates for that role.
There are ways that you can increase your appeal to employers and one quality in particular that can have a profound affect on your job search success is flexibility: flexibility with your salary or rate expectations; flexibility with the type of work you do; and flexibility about where you are prepared to work. More >