Questions to ask during interview to filter out tulip clients

[Antman]

As I sit around drinking coffee a lot, I ask about the chairs and the coffee.

[Lance]

I was recently asked the classic question 'what are you hoping to get from this role' question. I thought it was odd to ask a contractor that and basically replied it wasn't their job to do anything for me.

did you get the role after that flippant answer?

[WTFH]

I was recently asked the classic question 'what are you hoping to get from this role' question.

1. My invoices paid on time
2. An extension (if I am happy in the role)
3. Challenges that make me think, allow me to apply past experiences, and learn for the future

But mostly 1.

[eek]

1. My invoices paid on time
2. An extension (if I am happy in the role)
3. Challenges that make me think, allow me to apply past experiences, and learn for the future

But mostly 1.

Mainly 3. Failure to meet 1 would just result in me walking out (it hasn't happened because I'm careful managing agencies).

3 would be the deciding factor in me staying or going come renewal.

[pauldee]

did you get the role after that flippant answer?

Yes but I didn't say it flippantly.

[Bee]

I was recently asked the classic question 'what are you hoping to get from this role' question. I thought it was odd to ask a contractor that and basically replied it wasn't their job to do anything for me.

Not odd, they are working on your expectations.

[northernladuk]

Not odd, they are working on your expectations.

It is odd. I have no idea what the rest of you put means. You are a supplier and you deliver what the client wants. You don't ask a builder what his expectations are when he comes to do your extension do you?

All your comments so far are totally permie focussed and don't look like contractor questions at all. You have no idea of IR35 and other methods of working in the UK so most of your advice is actually steering people in to trouble not away from it.

[Lance]

[QUOTE=northernladuk;2325037You don't ask a builder what his expectations are when he comes to do your extension do you?
[/QUOTE]

No. He does that at the annual performance review. Obviously.

[northernladuk]

No. He does that at the annual performance review. Obviously.

You are a very naughty boy!

[LondonManc]

It is odd. I have no idea what the rest of you put means. You are a supplier and you deliver what the client wants. You don't ask a builder what his expectations are when he comes to do your extension do you?

All your comments so far are totally permie focussed and don't look like contractor questions at all. You have no idea of IR35 and other methods of working in the UK so most of your advice is actually steering people in to trouble not away from it.

Rather than what I'd get from the role, I'd expect to be asked what problems, if any, I foresee with the project as described in order to see if I have had experience of these sort of projects before.