What do you say...

[PCTNN]

...when a company asks you why you want to work with them?

Do they expect something more than "because I'm free and I could do with the money"?

[TheDude]

...when a company asks you why you want to work with them?

Do they expect something more than "because I'm free and I could do with the money"?

...because money can be exchanged for goods and services.

I absolutely detest companies that try and sell working for them as a lifestyle choice.

[northernladuk]

IMO you shouldn't be contracting if you can't work this out. Selling yourself and securing the gig is part of the job. Contracting 101 surely.

So you have to think on your feet and give them a bit of warm and cuddly guff. It's not hard. Loads of bog standard stuff you can recycle. Project is interesting, interesting tech, use previous experience again, you find the vertical industry interesting. Absolutely anything that doesn't look like you are doing for the money. This should be second nature to a contractor.

[SueEllen]

Read the company website and say some bull read from the website.

[WTFH]

...when a company asks you why you want to work with them?

Do they expect something more than "because I'm free and I could do with the money"?

"What I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a highly valued supplier for people like you.
If you give me a contract now, that'll be the end of it. I will work with you, I will invoice you. "

[ladymuck]

Ugh. What a crappy question.

I tend to waffle about the project sounding interesting and a good opportunity for me to use xyz skills.

[cojak]

“You have a situation that requires change. I have the skills to help with that change”.

It’s worked for me in the past.

[Gibbon]

Fortunately that's always easy for as its usually a different bit of an aircraft system that I'm curious to how its works. So I can be truthful.

Not so with one huge aero engine manufacturer in the midlands, it that case the truth is "because I'm into into self flagellation" otherwise known as there's nothing else around!

[ladymuck]

“You have a situation that requires change. I have the skills to help with that change”.

It’s worked for me in the past.

Ooh classy. Nicking that.

[Dark Black]

I don't recall ever being asked this for a contract - it's more of a question for a permie role surely?

If the question ever came up for a contract, I think I'd be more concerned that the interviewer didn't really understand the type of resource he was attempting to engage.