IT Contractors - how do you get your roles?

[strudel]

I seem to be struggling at the moment. Anecdotal evidence on the net suggests the market is going through a funny period, but then again somebody always says that.

My past job history has always involved throwing my cv on jobserve and then getting a phone call within a week, but that no longer seems to happen. I'm barely getting any cv downloads and those that have rung me have just tailed off into nothingness (I suspect they may be fishing expeditions). I'm not seeing many roles going which makes me think they're either not there or they're filled through a harvested cv list before that. Unless you have SC in which case I suspect you're fending them off with a stick.

So what do you do to get your roles?

Put your cv on every jobsite going and wait?
Apply for anything relevant and blag it?
Go via Linkedin?
Ring every agency going?
Old Boys network?

Seriously debating going permie again because I can't see much hope before Christmas if this continues. (I'm a tester if that helps).