Hi everyone. Consider this scenario.
On 1st of the month, agent contacts contractor with good news - clientco wants you onboard? Congratulations.
However, start date is only determined once their very strict screening process has been completed. But in reality, clientco wants you to start on the 1st of the next month. However, contractor doesn't get to know that. Clientco may not want the contractor to know that, hoping the contractor will stay with the screening process.
The matter is referred to screening team, who have been outsourced by clientco, let's call them screenco. Clientco like screenco as they're cheaper than their previous HR situation.
In this scenario, it's not exactly in screenco's interest to have you cleared very quickly. Think about it. As long as you get cleared before the clientco start date, or acceptable service level agreement they have with clientco e.g. screening decision made 2 days before start date, then all is good.
So how do they prolong it? Well, there are several ways, such as demanding exact dates for all your activities in the gaps, wanting to know what that £5 that came into your personal bank account was, demanding personal emails of you applying for jobs even if they don't exist.
They will claim that all are clientco requirements and job offer withdrawn if you don't co-operate. But then you must ask yourselves how genuine those threats are when you're dealing with often immature and poorly trained and paid staff at screenco who clearly don't understand the documents you have promptly provided. Would clientco really attribute so much power to those people? I suspect not.
Screenco are just delaying the clearance until 2 days before clientco start date so they can tick the box and maximise their timesheet income having to 'deal' with you, mr contractor.
Clearly, clientco don't get to know about screenco and how they treated the contractor. They see you turning up at clientco's starting date and think nothing of it.
For screenco, you, the candidate that must be cleared, are their client. Prolonging the screening requirements from you means more timesheet entries for them, for which clientco pays.
On 1st of the month, agent contacts contractor with good news - clientco wants you onboard? Congratulations.
However, start date is only determined once their very strict screening process has been completed. But in reality, clientco wants you to start on the 1st of the next month. However, contractor doesn't get to know that. Clientco may not want the contractor to know that, hoping the contractor will stay with the screening process.
The matter is referred to screening team, who have been outsourced by clientco, let's call them screenco. Clientco like screenco as they're cheaper than their previous HR situation.
In this scenario, it's not exactly in screenco's interest to have you cleared very quickly. Think about it. As long as you get cleared before the clientco start date, or acceptable service level agreement they have with clientco e.g. screening decision made 2 days before start date, then all is good.
So how do they prolong it? Well, there are several ways, such as demanding exact dates for all your activities in the gaps, wanting to know what that £5 that came into your personal bank account was, demanding personal emails of you applying for jobs even if they don't exist.
They will claim that all are clientco requirements and job offer withdrawn if you don't co-operate. But then you must ask yourselves how genuine those threats are when you're dealing with often immature and poorly trained and paid staff at screenco who clearly don't understand the documents you have promptly provided. Would clientco really attribute so much power to those people? I suspect not.
Screenco are just delaying the clearance until 2 days before clientco start date so they can tick the box and maximise their timesheet income having to 'deal' with you, mr contractor.
Clearly, clientco don't get to know about screenco and how they treated the contractor. They see you turning up at clientco's starting date and think nothing of it.
For screenco, you, the candidate that must be cleared, are their client. Prolonging the screening requirements from you means more timesheet entries for them, for which clientco pays.
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