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Originally Posted by CrazyMoose
How are you finding the market Malvolio? I'm interested to hear if starting a contracting career is the best thing to do right now. My wife is seriously considering jumping back into the job market but with so much uncertainty it's a bit of a daunting prospect.
Thanks
CM
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If she hasn't got current skills and an active history as a freelance, or a niche skillset that may be in demand somewhere, I can't say I'd reccomend it right now. My problem is not a shortage of abiliity and expereince, nor of work to go for, but a vast oversupply of candidates for every role: people apply for anything regardless of abiltity, the agents are swamped and it's pure chance if you even get noticed. And if you do, there will be two or three people in the shortlist who have exactly the right skills in the same industry and clients will naturally go for them first.
One way to prove it is to try it. Look up a dozen roughly suitable jobs on Jobserve or one of the other sites (ContractorUK has a pretty good search engine), and see what happens when she applies.