Reply to: We want you to go perm... Maybe?

[ChimpMaster]

Oh DearTM

I've just been offered the amazing opportunity to go permie, or to offer them a big 'cost improvement'

Options, options.

[SillyPerson]

The fact i did ask is good for you though cos if I didn't you wouldn't have had the chance to comment. If people didn't ask questions on forums there would be no forums and you'd have to find something else to do. So actually I've done you a favour. Have a great day

Ooh I do like your style

I’ve gone contract to perm twice for clients for a formal promotion and to get the job title officially for a rate rise when going back to contracting.

But yeah - 360s etc etc..absolutely

[quackhandle]

The fact i did ask is good for you though cos if I didn't you wouldn't have had the chance to comment. If people didn't ask questions on forums there would be no forums and you'd have to find something else to do. So actually I've done you a favour. Have a great day

What did your accountant say?

qh

[l35kee]

I recommend you look at the organisation's appraisal process. Can you cope with 360 degree reviews, competency frameworks, development plans, forced ranking, working on your non-existent 'weaknesses', being assessed against the company's core values...and all that jazz?
I'm contracting at a large organisation right now and have recently seen the torments that people have been through. I couldn't do it; I just couldn't.

Part of the reason I became a contractor was because I was being promoted, and promotion means managing people. So not only did I have to sit through this crap with my line manager, I actually had to sit down and do this to my direct reports. I could feel the life draining from my body every day.

[pauldee]

My 2p: Pretty much every contractor I know who goes perm goes back to contracting within a year. This includes me.

[psychocandy]

The fact i did ask is good for you though cos if I didn't you wouldn't have had the chance to comment. If people didn't ask questions on forums there would be no forums and you'd have to find something else to do. So actually I've done you a favour. Have a great day

[ckms]

The fact i did ask is good for you though cos if I didn't you wouldn't have had the chance to comment. If people didn't ask questions on forums there would be no forums and you'd have to find something else to do. So actually I've done you a favour. Have a great day

[northernladuk]

Decision made.... I can't go back perm. If they cut the contract short then so be it. I'm too much in the contractor mindset to give a shot about politics, processes and people. Thanks for the advice all who commented

You wouldn't have had to ask if you really were.

[ckms]

Decision made.... I can't go back perm. If they cut the contract short then so be it. I'm too much in the contractor mindset to give a shot about politics, processes and people. Thanks for the advice all who commented

[ladymuck]

Not much more to add to the above. Why did you go contracting? Why did you give up permie work (assuming you've not always been contract)? What attracts you to going permanent, or what's worrying you about contracting that is pushing you towards it?

[BR14]

You know you've been here too long when you see the lifecycle of contracting reset and all the same old questions come out from new blood.

Plus ca change............................................ .......

[BR14]

I recommend you look at the organisation's appraisal process. Can you cope with 360 degree reviews, competency frameworks, development plans, forced ranking, working on your non-existent 'weaknesses', being assessed against the company's core values...and all that jazz?
I'm contracting at a large organisation right now and have recently seen the torments that people have been through. I couldn't do it; I just couldn't.

WHWS - +1 on that

+1 again

[ChimpMaster]

You know you've been here too long when you see the lifecycle of contracting reset and all the same old questions come out from new blood.

[northernladuk]

Time for you to weigh up pros/cons then, and make a decision which works best for you?

Absolutely this. Not sure what else there is to say.

[jmo21]

I recommend you look at the organisation's appraisal process. Can you cope with 360 degree reviews, competency frameworks, development plans, forced ranking, working on your non-existent 'weaknesses', being assessed against the company's core values...and all that jazz?
I'm contracting at a large organisation right now and have recently seen the torments that people have been through. I couldn't do it; I just couldn't.

#1 reason I started contracting.

And the thought of going back to that.......