positive spin

[12trees]

Hi
I started my first contract 6 months ago to do 12 month maternity contract for a fairly senior role.
Within the first week in the job a more junior consultant left and I was asked to cover this role instead. After 6 months boss has said it's not working out.
All the agencies I know are aware I'm off the market for 12 months. But now I'm back immediately available how do I tell them in a positive way. Truth is the job changed from the start of the contract but major factor was the boys and I didn't get along. I want to spin this so it doesn't look bad. Spoke to boss he said he would say it was mutual that it just wasn't working out.

How can I best present this to agencies and then to a new client.
Thx

 

[mudskipper]

Hi
I started my first contract 6 months ago to do 12 month maternity contract for a fairly senior role.
Within the first week in the job a more junior consultant left and I was asked to cover this role instead. After 6 months boss has said it's not working out.
All the agencies I know are aware I'm off the market for 12 months. But now I'm back immediately available how do I tell them in a positive way. Truth is the job changed from the start of the contract but major factor was the boys and I didn't get along. I want to spin this so it doesn't look bad. Spoke to boss he said he would say it was mutual that it just wasn't working out.

How can I best present this to agencies and then to a new client.
Thx

Agencies have short memories!. Just upload your CV to the job sites (beware of Jobserve's new auto-CV feature that takes your CV and generates nonsense). I doubt that anyone will remember that your gig was supposed to be 12 months - if they do, then the project concluded early/ was canned / whatever.

 

[AnonAgent]

Agencies have short memories!. Just upload your CV to the job sites (beware of Jobserve's new auto-CV feature that takes your CV and generates nonsense). I doubt that anyone will remember that your gig was supposed to be 12 months - if they do, then the project concluded early/ was canned / whatever.

WHS

 

[eek]

WSS

FTFY otherwise you'll be dead.

 

[curtis]

You don't really need to say anything just upload your CV back on the job boards and state it was a 6 month contract and that was it.

You do not need to explain that it was a 12 that ended early it was just a 6 month contract that ended after 6 months.

 

[moggy]

Agencies have short memories!. Just upload your CV to the job sites (beware of Jobserve's new auto-CV feature that takes your CV and generates nonsense). I doubt that anyone will remember that your gig was supposed to be 12 months - if they do, then the project concluded early/ was canned / whatever.

WMSS

If asked I would say, it was a 6 month role that I hoped would be extended.

 

[TheFaQQer]

If you know any of the agents, then ring them and talk to them.

My first gig was cancelled a month after I'd signed a six month extension. When I'd been looking for roles, I'd been talking to a few agents, and was reasonably friendly with some of them. I rang one of them and told them all the horrible details of what had gone on, and two weeks later walked into a better paying role that he sorted for me.

I had the advantage that I'd been talking to him while I was looking, and he'd spoken to people that we both knew to see whether I was a good prospect, though.

 

[northernladuk]

Is there a lesson to learn why not only did you get shifted down but couldn't hold on to that gig either?

Just tell them the contract ended. We are a flexible workforce and finishing at short notice is one of the upsides/downsides of the way we work. Don't have to explain anything to any agent.

 

[Bluenose]

In this economy, a 12 month project which gets re-scoped is probably the norm rather than the exception.

You'll be just fine, the only possible sticking point could be the reference....

 

[northernladuk]

In this economy, a 12 month project which gets re-scoped is probably the norm rather than the exception.

You'll be just fine, the only possible sticking point could be the reference....

I don't see why. It is well documented on here not to provide a client as a reference and an agent is going to do no more than qualify the dates the contractor worked.