Contracting at Nationwide

[northernladuk]

I would advise him to stay out of Professional if he want his sockies to last more than a few posts.

Just get rid of it. It will get a ban very shortly anyway so just pull the plug now. No one wants it around whatever area of the forum.

[PCTNN]

I don't think you understand the dynamic at NW. It's the contractors that do the work while the permies do very little from what I saw.

This is a very interesting perspective and goes well with something that happened to me last year.

I applied for a permanent role via a recruitment agency (AMS). I really liked their remote first working policy and NW was on my list of companies I wanted to work with.

All well, I did the 2 interviews and I highlighted my career aspirations and how I wanted to work hard and climb the career ladder (coming from contracting, I thought that would be a good way of reassuring them I wouldn't leave them after 6 months).

I got rejected for the permie role. The agent said he wasn't 100% sure about it but he felt that NW rejected me because I was too enthusiastic and too focused on career progress rather than do as I'm told and do my day-to-day job. He then said that NW wanted to ask me if I would consider contracting with them instead.

So yeah, maybe it is true. Contractors do all the work while permies only want to sit on their golden chairs without other over enthusiastic permies threatening them. Interesting.

[Guy At Charnock Richard]

This is a very interesting perspective and goes well with something that happened to me last year.

I applied for a permanent role via a recruitment agency (AMS). I really liked their remote first working policy and NW was on my list of companies I wanted to work with.

All well, I did the 2 interviews and I highlighted my career aspirations and how I wanted to work hard and climb the career ladder (coming from contracting, I thought that would be a good way of reassuring them I wouldn't leave them after 6 months).

I got rejected for the permie role. The agent said he wasn't 100% sure about it but he felt that NW rejected me because I was too enthusiastic and too focused on career progress rather than do as I'm told and do my day-to-day job. He then said that NW wanted to ask me if I would consider contracting with them instead.

So yeah, maybe it is true. Contractors do all the work while permies only want to sit on their golden chairs without other over enthusiastic permies threatening them. Interesting.

That is interesting indeed - it seems the legacy of Phil Williamson continues and the permies are spending all their time sitting on their ample rear ends in "Chill 24" while the contractors attend to the not particularly demanding business in hand.

So, is AMS Alexander Mann Solutions?

[northernladuk]

That is interesting indeed - it seems the legacy of Phil Williamson continues and the permies are spending all their time sitting on their ample rear ends in "Chill 24" while the contractors attend to the not particularly demanding business in hand.

So, is AMS Alexander Mann Solutions?

[PCTNN]

while the contractors attend to the not particularly demanding business in hand.

Would have been the ideal environment for me and the rate wasn't bad either (I dug up the email and they were offering 600 per day inside ir35).

Too bad I was looking for permanent employment back then.

[SussexSeagull]

While I was still permanent I had an interview with them for what would have been my first contract in about 2008. Nice office building in memory serves.

[courtg9000]

While I was still permanent I had an interview with them for what would have been my first contract in about 2008. Nice office building in memory serves.

The offices were rather nice back when I was there, canteen half decent too. As I said previously a lot of good quality totty.

[malvolio]

Good place to work, but the staff were rank amateurs. How else would you explain me having to find several hundred virtual C: drives for their PCs because they cba to log changes to the large SAN that held them (along with loads of other important stuff and databases)? Not a problem until it all had to be relocated to a new datacentre...

[TheDude]

The offices were rather nice back when I was there, canteen half decent too. As I said previously a lot of good quality totty.

How about the HR department - did they keep a tight reign on sexism and misogyny?

[ladymuck]

I was at Nationwide in 2007/8. Worked in some random office attached to a warehouse that shipped out their leaflets and stuff. I wasn't in packing, I was working on a ISO audit and discovered they had recursive nested groups in their AD which was entertaining.