Hi All,
First post on here, but I do regularly browse through the forum, so I’m just after some advice, I took on a BA contract in March with a well-known bank out in Europe. Being from the UK it was a good chance for some international exposure with a large bank on the CV, and a good rate even taking into account the extra cost of living out here.
My contract has been renewed until the new year, but the problem I have is that I’m just not being challenged enough, there are four other BA/PM types on our team that are all Permy and they seem to continue to do most of the chunk of BA/PM work. Although I get the odd bit of BA work chucked my way I am usually stuck doing odd jobs or doing the administration and management for releases (using tools like JIRA). I have approached my director about this before and have been told that the systems I’m using require a steep learning curve, and the current perm staff are SMEs in their own applications, so wouldn’t be fair to chuck me in the deep end for requirement gathering etcetera as I won’t have the knowledge.
I’m now getting a bit fed-up and not sure what to do, I’m not really learning anything to further myself and sometimes feel like more of an admin assistant doing monkey work rather than a BA, on the other hand it’s a good rate and as mentioned earlier the international experience looks good. You could say it’s a dream situation getting paid well but for little stress, but its actually really boring I’d much rather be challenged.
I am still fairly early on in my career around 3 years out of uni, although this is my second contract at a major bank, it’s a lot more difficult for me to get a decent contract compared to someone who has 10 years experience under their belt.
What would you guys do in my situation, has anyone themselves been in a situation like this or know someone who has, where they have been taken on for a contract but actually not had much to do? Is it just a case of the team being given budget for X amount of people, and rather than under hire, they use all of the budget even if it means they don’t know what to do with all of their contractors?
Before joining the world of contracting I imagined it to be a fast paced, hit the floor running type of environment where there would be lots of new knowledge to absorb in relatively short periods of time, but seems I was somewhat wrong!
Thanks,
First post on here, but I do regularly browse through the forum, so I’m just after some advice, I took on a BA contract in March with a well-known bank out in Europe. Being from the UK it was a good chance for some international exposure with a large bank on the CV, and a good rate even taking into account the extra cost of living out here.
My contract has been renewed until the new year, but the problem I have is that I’m just not being challenged enough, there are four other BA/PM types on our team that are all Permy and they seem to continue to do most of the chunk of BA/PM work. Although I get the odd bit of BA work chucked my way I am usually stuck doing odd jobs or doing the administration and management for releases (using tools like JIRA). I have approached my director about this before and have been told that the systems I’m using require a steep learning curve, and the current perm staff are SMEs in their own applications, so wouldn’t be fair to chuck me in the deep end for requirement gathering etcetera as I won’t have the knowledge.
I’m now getting a bit fed-up and not sure what to do, I’m not really learning anything to further myself and sometimes feel like more of an admin assistant doing monkey work rather than a BA, on the other hand it’s a good rate and as mentioned earlier the international experience looks good. You could say it’s a dream situation getting paid well but for little stress, but its actually really boring I’d much rather be challenged.
I am still fairly early on in my career around 3 years out of uni, although this is my second contract at a major bank, it’s a lot more difficult for me to get a decent contract compared to someone who has 10 years experience under their belt.
What would you guys do in my situation, has anyone themselves been in a situation like this or know someone who has, where they have been taken on for a contract but actually not had much to do? Is it just a case of the team being given budget for X amount of people, and rather than under hire, they use all of the budget even if it means they don’t know what to do with all of their contractors?
Before joining the world of contracting I imagined it to be a fast paced, hit the floor running type of environment where there would be lots of new knowledge to absorb in relatively short periods of time, but seems I was somewhat wrong!
Thanks,
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