Interview Advice

[fullyautomatix]

Shall we have a sweepstake on when RH is going to do a Suity and come and moan about his new contract ?

Congrats on the new contract.

[MarillionFan]

There's another?

There's a few. ContractorUK is No 2 in the Top 10 Contractor sites. I cannot list it as Admin gets funny about it when he looks in his magic mirror.

[realityhack]

Out of interest what did they mean by 'contractors with a certain mindset'?

It's a team rolling out relatively new approaches within the business, so as well as actually doing the work, practitioners should be an advocate for change and be able to educate business teams, and bring them around. In their experience it's been a challenge to find contractors prepared/able to properly engage the business at that level, most just want to be left to their own devices.

[realityhack]

Shall we have a sweepstake on when RH is going to do a Suity and come and moan about his new contract ?

Congrats on the new contract.

I'll go for 2 weeks. Possibly about the nightmare 16hr day situation I just found myself in.

Cheers all - nice to know the market's still buoyant in certain sectors.

[EternalOptimist]

Cheers all - nice to know the market's still buoyant in certain sectors.

Aha, tourist booking software for the cruise ship industry

[realityhack]

Aha, tourist booking software for the cruise ship industry

Yep, although they still need bailouts from time to time.

igmc

[administrator]

Well done RH Glad it all worked out!

It's from another 'contractor' site. They've not done it yet.

Seeing as the first was in 2006 we may be waiting a while for the follow up

There's a few. ContractorUK is No 2 in the Top 10 Contractor sites. I cannot list it as Admin gets funny about it when he looks in his magic mirror.

Repeat after me "There is only one contractor site. There is only one contractor site. There is only one contractor site. There is only one contractor site."

[TheFaQQer]

Repeat after me "There is only one contractor site. There is only one contractor site. There is only one contractor site. There is only one contractor site."

Tell that to the Advertising Standards Authority.

Oh wait, you did.....

[TheFaQQer]

"I have interviewed dozens of IT contractors. Some I will hire before others. The following are the type of IT contractors I do not want.

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8. Those with Longer Contracts

I'm not convinced I'd want to work for someone who by the time they got to number eight on a list of ten items had forgotten whether this was a list of things that they want or do not want.

[EternalOptimist]

I'm not convinced I'd want to work for someone who by the time they got to number eight on a list of ten items had forgotten whether this was a list of things that they want or do not want.

aye

Anyone who goes to an interview armed with this 'wisdom' is assuming that all interviwers are the same and they all have the same criteria.
You have to be quick on your feet and read the situation imho