Listing Past Clients on Website

[FarmerPalmer]

Why do you supply a past clients website?
What has ie Boots the chemist who sell pharma products got to do with your
IT skills unless their website mentions what a fab job you did for them.
Why would an agent or a client looking at your CV be interested in looking
at a past clients website?

I name the client ie BP so other oil companies know that I have worked in the
same sector.

Because I don't work in 'IT' in that way.

I develop the software that is inside the clients product, which they market from their site.

[Brussels Slumdog]

Are you marketing your skills or your past client

Personally I just have the client name, as a link to their website

Why do you supply a past clients website?
What has ie Boots the chemist who sell pharma products got to do with your
IT skills unless their website mentions what a fab job you did for them.
Why would an agent or a client looking at your CV be interested in looking
at a past clients website?

I name the client ie BP so other oil companies know that I have worked in the
same sector.

[FarmerPalmer]

IIRC there was a case about a guy who was a supplier to Mars using their logo on his website without their permission. He was OK to use the words but not their trademarked logo.

Personally I just have the client name, as a link to their website

[TheFaQQer]

Or if not, don't tell the former client what you're doing. I did once, and got a stroppy email about using their logo.

IIRC there was a case about a guy who was a supplier to Mars using their logo on his website without their permission. He was OK to use the words but not their trademarked logo.

[TheVoice]

same here

WHS

[mace]

Best to ask permission

Or if not, don't tell the former client what you're doing. I did once, and got a stroppy email about using their logo.

[MPwannadecentincome]

Besides, there no such condition in any of my previous contracts.

But its worth checking the contracts anyway, if through an agent they may have slipped something in, unlikely I suppose but is possible, also I am contracted through a company who uses me to work with their own clients, I had to negotiate the confidentiality clause so that I could at least tell people which of their clients I worked with, otherwise my CV would be lacking in gravitas.

[FarmerPalmer]

I've got all my past clients named on my co's website.

Its free advertising for them and its a fact my co has supplied a service to them.

Someone must be having a giraffe thinking you may have breached any confidentiality agreement. Besides, there no such condition in any of my previous contracts.

same here

[TheFaQQer]

I've got most of the big ones on my website. If they don't give permission, then strictly speaking they could come after you if you have used their logo without permission.

That said, I've never asked, and use logos - I'm more than happy to remove them if anyone asks.

[Menelaus]

Me too - I've got a selection of client logos and names on website with a description of the work done.

[BolshieBastard]

I've got all my past clients named on my co's website.

Its free advertising for them and its a fact my co has supplied a service to them.

Someone must be having a giraffe thinking you may have breached any confidentiality agreement. Besides, there no such condition in any of my previous contracts.

[Clippy]

I wouldn't explicitly use their name but would put something like, if it was Ford for example: Major American motor manufacturer

[Moscow Mule]

So long as you're not citing them as references, why should they have any say? They don't need to approve your CV.

You need to be careful you're not breaching any confidentiality agreements you might have signed. Other than that, put what you like on your CV/website....

[NotAllThere]

So long as you're not citing them as references, why should they have any say? They don't need to approve your CV.

[wurzel]

Is it customary to get the approval of the ex-client before doing this? I've tried talking to my last client co. but am getting stonewalled by HR. So long as there are no legal issues I guess it's ok. I just wanted to detail a couple of real world case studies to illustrate the kind of stuff I've being doing.