Hoaxley. Priceless

[Not So Wise]

thats not the type of reference I'm talking about. I talking about a description of how they affected the team, their general attitude, performance, achievments etc - than just start dates and end dates.

First problem there, it is increasingly becoming the standard company policy to only give references that state "X worked here from/to" due to legal concerns. Out of the last 4 contracts I worked this was the company policy for 3 of them.

2nd Problem: We don't trust you, when I first started out contracting (after first contract) I used to provide references (previous permie role and first contract) to whatever agent asked, guess what happened? Both people who were providing the references called me up and told me to never give their names again because they were sick and tired of agents calling them up and giving them the hard sell

So for last 9 years I have refused at any point to provide a single reference to an agent and only provided them direct to client after the position has been offered to me (and even then only been asked to do so once)

HR and their permie mentality need to get out of the contractor recruitment process because they only stuff it up

[DimPrawn]

First problem there, it is increasingly becoming the standard company policy to only give references that state "X worked here from/to" due to legal concerns. Out of the last 4 contracts I worked this was the company policy for 3 of them.

2nd Problem: We don't trust you, when I first started out contracting (after first contract) I used to provide references (previous permie role and first contract) to whatever agent asked, guess what happened? Both people who were providing the references called me up and told me to never give their names again because they were sick and tired of agents calling them up and giving them the hard sell

So for last 9 years I have refused at any point to provide a single reference to an agent and only provided them direct to client after the position has been offered to me (and even then only been asked to do so once)

HR and their permie mentality need to get out of the contractor recruitment process because they only stuff it up

Abso****inlutely. Amen.