Six months contracting in a year - Implications

[Boo]

I had to provide a personal reference for my current contract as I was out more than 28 days from the last contract.

(The client is big but rather anal over this type of thing...)

If you are not working in the financial sector or defence then no-one will ever care about continuity of employment. Just my experience over 10 years of contracting.

When you give in to this kind of corporate tulipe then you do a disservice to the rest of us. It's not like a 1 month gap is uncommon in contracting

Boo

[Bellona]

If you are not working in the financial sector or defence then no-one will ever care about continuity of employment. Just my experience over 10 years of contracting.

When you give in to this kind of corporate tulipe then you do a disservice to the rest of us. It's not like a 1 month gap is uncommon in contracting

Boo

I'm confused over this too. I can understand it for permie roles, but for contractors surely there will be inevitable gaps between contracts if renewals are not common place in your line of work ?

[cojak]

If you are not working in the financial sector or defence then no-one will ever care about continuity of employment. Just my experience over 10 years of contracting.

When you give in to this kind of corporate tulipe then you do a disservice to the rest of us. It's not like a 1 month gap is uncommon in contracting

Boo

I don't care about disservice to the rest of you - I care about getting a contract. The client is large and they DO care about his kind of thing. Their security clearance is much longer than the norm and they require you going to London to show your original documents in person to the relevant people (not SC but not far off).

You would have nodded sagely and said 'well done' had I refused and not got the contract. Thanks for nothing.

(As a consolation prize - I got the contract reviewed and it's fine. But it was in MY interest to do so - not yours).