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[The ideal candidate]

I'm new on CUK so hello everyone

I've been contracting for 3 years - well I've recently finished a 3 year contract working as a product manager -damn those repeated renewals

Tomorrow I have an interview for a new gig and I've been told that the interviewer and the clientco put emphasis on the calibre of questions that the interviewee poses

I can think of lots of appropriate permie type questions about career progression etc but aside from questions about the project I'd be working on I'm not sure what areas to explore that are more contractor specific

Any ideas welcome

[norrahe]

hello

have a look in the jobs section on this website, there's lots of useful tips, says it all really

http://www.contractoruk.com/news/002835.html

understand what the client is looking for, if your agent is any good they will have given you a decent job spec and client background. Try and relate any questions about your skills to the job in hand and relate it back to your experience ( what you did well etc..).

I find contract interviews are all about selling yourself, they're paying you a lot of money to do a job, they have to like you and find you experienced enough to do the work.

Good luck

[thunderlizard]

Just try and get them into 1 more level of detail all the time. If they say "we're in the middle of upgrading our Oracle databases to 10g", ask "oh really, and are you planning to add some more incremental backups to your schedule? because they run a lot better than in 9i." It shows you know what you're talking about.

Or go in the opposite direction and widen things out e.g. "oh, that's interesting, so you decided to stick with just-in-time supply management. Did you know that a lot of your competitors have gone back to just-in-case, so that they can give their customers a more bespoke service?"

-but either way, know when to be conciliatory if they turn it into a game of I-know-more-than-you-do.

[The ideal candidate]

Thanks folks

I do wish I didnt feel so nervous now as I feel so out of practice at this lark