Good agencies for specialised IT pros?

foolishboy

..my background is in billing/CRM databases, migration etc..

I've got a broad set of skills so I'm finding the traditional methods of finding posts a little restrictive as they tend to pigeon hole you.

What I really need is a chat with a decent recruiter who understands what's out there rather than just filling out an online form for a specific role. Anybody have recommendations? London / South East area.

Cheers!
FB

[Deleted User]

FB - are you on linkedin? It's awesome for letting recruiters find you. Just had someone contact me today wanting to chat about a job that's right up my street... because they've effectively already got my CV and don't need to send me rubbish adverts.

I advised a guy I met through my son's nursery to join (he'd been unemployed for 18 months) and on the day he joined he was contacted by a recruiter... he's now in work 2 weeks later. It's crazy. I've heard it's liked because people are more honest with their public profiles than in their CVs

foolishboy

ringo_24601 wrote: »

FB - are you on linkedin? It's awesome for letting recruiters find you. Just had someone contact me today wanting to chat about a job that's right up my street... because they've effectively already got my CV and don't need to send me rubbish adverts.

I advised a guy I met through my son's nursery to join (he'd been unemployed for 18 months) and on the day he joined he was contacted by a recruiter... he's now in work 2 weeks later. It's crazy. I've heard it's liked because people are more honest with their public profiles than in their CVs

Yup .. I'm on LI - although I've only just gotten around to updating my profile properly today so fingers crossed :-)

Cheers!
FB

myright

can everybody view peoples cv's on linkden? or is it just recruiters?

Mint1955

OH is the same linked in is good and get your cv onto as many agencies as possible. CW jobs was the one he got most calls from this time and got interview and contract.

agrinnall

Unless things have changed considerably since my contracting days no agent is going to want to spend much unproductive time simply chatting with you about what jobs there might be out there to suit you. And even if they did you'd have to take anything said with a very large pinch of salt. Back in the day personal contacts was a good way of finding out what was available, I'd guess LinkedIn is pretty good at fulfilling that role now.

CrazyRed

Specialist IT Recruiter for your level of experience?

Nigel Franks - if you're on LI, then they're on there too - I only joined LI a month or so back and have an interview, through NF, tomorrow - they contacted me on Friday!

They're screaming for people with CRM and database knowledge.....

Amalea

A lot of times it's not about good agencies, more good agents - which can be down to pure luck. Having said that, last time round I used totaljobs to find vacancies, and my last job was via computer people.

You say CRM/billing databases - do you actually mean T-SQL, Oracle etc?

paddyrg

Without question just use the site jobserve.com for IT jobs. Jobserve has been specialising in IT jobs since before people even had WWW access/sites and used to do search and subscribe by email/majordomo! This means ALL the IT agencies use jobserve. They have a shopping basket, and the ability to store multiple versions of your CV. It is a bit of a numbers game so make your life easy by saving some specific searches in your area and spending 25 mins a day chasing jobs, not agents!

InsideInsurance

myright wrote: »

can everybody view peoples cv's on linkden? or is it just recruiters?

It is nothing to do with recruiters or not, it all depends on what level of membership you have. The free version gives you the least search tools, least info and no ability to chat to those outside of your network. The top level account gives you much more ability to find and contact people but is £720 per year.


Upload your CV to JobServe and agents will quickly find copies of it if they are looking for anything close to what you do. Monster is ok too but less so for IT than JobServe