Hello,
I came into contracting last year after years as a perm PMO Manager and PM. I held my first contract for 9 months and I absolutely loved it - hard work but so satisfying.
Now I have hit a brick wall in finding my next contract. I have been searching feverishly for a contract since November last year, and my CV never fails to garner interest and I do get call backs and interviews; however that is where it ends - I cannot seem to secure a contract.
After 4 months of being messed around by agencies, hopes built up then let down at the 11th hour, turning up for interviews only to find they have changed the role; being offered a start date then told the role has been 'filled internally' I am beginning to get extremely worried and discouraged.
I appreciate that it is year end, and new budgets are yet to be launched; I also know that a lot of roles are niche or specialist and I wont be shortlisted for interview every time, but I am extremely particular and realistic about what I apply for anyway; it is the agencies that call and push for my consent to apply for roles which they have sourced me for based merely on one matching key word in my CV; that just drives me mad! They are just so appallingly unprofessional.
I am fairly flexible on location, and I always get great feedback from interview. But....??!
Has anyone else faced this type of challenge, and if so, how did you overcome it? Was it just a matter of time and perseverance, or maybe 'right place at the right time'?
I don't want to write this off as a career path yet.
Many thanks.
I came into contracting last year after years as a perm PMO Manager and PM. I held my first contract for 9 months and I absolutely loved it - hard work but so satisfying.
Now I have hit a brick wall in finding my next contract. I have been searching feverishly for a contract since November last year, and my CV never fails to garner interest and I do get call backs and interviews; however that is where it ends - I cannot seem to secure a contract.
After 4 months of being messed around by agencies, hopes built up then let down at the 11th hour, turning up for interviews only to find they have changed the role; being offered a start date then told the role has been 'filled internally' I am beginning to get extremely worried and discouraged.
I appreciate that it is year end, and new budgets are yet to be launched; I also know that a lot of roles are niche or specialist and I wont be shortlisted for interview every time, but I am extremely particular and realistic about what I apply for anyway; it is the agencies that call and push for my consent to apply for roles which they have sourced me for based merely on one matching key word in my CV; that just drives me mad! They are just so appallingly unprofessional.
I am fairly flexible on location, and I always get great feedback from interview. But....??!
Has anyone else faced this type of challenge, and if so, how did you overcome it? Was it just a matter of time and perseverance, or maybe 'right place at the right time'?
I don't want to write this off as a career path yet.
Many thanks.
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