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"In Germany, we've basically got full employment in the IT sector." I can only confirm this. I used to be a freelancer and I got almost daily offers per email
by ccozan 9y ago
"In Germany, we've basically got full employment in the IT sector."
I can only confirm this. I used to be a freelancer and I got almost daily offers per email and phone. In order to stop I ask them a very hi price per hour ( 90-100 euros ) and to my very surprise yesterday the guy said, "that's fine, when do we start?". I backed up a bit and after some discussion he told me that they really could not find anyone. There is really no IT people in Germany without job, so the only way to get work do is to turn to freelancers and offer a good rate.
- majewsky 9y ago> very hi price per hour ( 90-100 euros ) Contrary to what you seem to expect, that price is a steal. A more realistic rate for contractors doing basic IT work (like configuring DB backups) is 400-800 euros per hour.
- opencl 9y agoPlease tell me where I can find these jobs that will pay six figures a year for two hours a week of basic IT work. This is more than an order of magnitude higher than anyone I know makes.
- majewsky 9y agoOh wait, sorry. I misread "per hour" as "per day". The original figure seems okay then.
- jon_richards 9y agoYou have a bit of the opposite problem in America. The market is flooded with applicants. The real issue is that many of them are woefully underqualified (see the fizzbuzz debate). It's a constant struggle to find a system that filters these people out without insulting the people you are trying to hire in the first place.
- zerr 9y agoWell, the market is also flooded with 50-60K jobs in not so "hot" places but nobody applies.