3 weeks experience equals no experience
Adding the experience you gained doing something different for three weeks will not impress anyone so leave it off. The only reason to include a 3 week contract is to fill a gap. If you feel that during the 3 weeks work you gained worthwile experience then incorporate the work you did somewhere in your past history or as your first job.
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If you are looking for contracts include it. Businesses have more than one contact at a time and there are occasions where a larger business has no work for a smaller business for days/weeks so this means the smaller business fits in other work.Originally posted by oversteer View Post
If you are looking for permanent work don't unless you do something like a graphical designer. The graphical designers I know and have met do a mixture of permanent and contract work at the same time.
However you don't need to say that you did the work in the day or Monday - Friday. Remember there are 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week.Leave a comment:
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Do agencies ask the same type of questions on a reference that a perm employer would? Just thinking that it's quite standard to ask how many sick days a person has taken in the last year - if they do it could trip you up.Originally posted by Zippy View PostLeave a comment:
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What!!! Don't encourage him.Originally posted by Zippy View Post
You really are quite unprofessional. You took a sicky to moonlight!!!!
As an employer I'd not only sack you if I found out, if I later saw it appear on your cv and ever came across it I'd be looking to take you to court for damages.
You're obviously a money for nothing type guy. Contracting is not for you! :rant:Leave a comment:
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Could you pretend the sickie was a holiday? It's unlikely the agent would ask your perm employer about the contract client (when getting references). It's a bit of a risk, but I reckon you'd get away with it. Maybe.Leave a comment:
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Yeah I can't think of a rational way to explain it without it looking bad. It's a shame as otherwise my work experience lacks any contract/agency type work which is what I'm applying for.Leave a comment:
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You don't need to show contract work when it overlapped with permie role.
Why make things messy unnecessarily?Leave a comment:
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Could be a tricky one to explain in the interview:
I: "Tell me about BigAdAgency - your CV says that you worked for them while you were working for PermieCo. How allow PermieCo to release you for that time?"
O: "Errr..."
I: "Right - and who where your references in PermieCo again?"Leave a comment:
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...but then he's making it clear to his new client that he's going to screw them by doing work "on the side" for other clients whilst in their employ; oh, and if it means taking a 3 week sickie to get the other job done, he's prepared to do just that. Should go down real well in the interview.Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post
My advice: simply leave this short "contract on the side" role off the cv, no matter how "good" the client name. All IMHO, of course.
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Don't show a gap in the perm employment, because there wasn't one. Just put the contract on in addition so people can see they ran concurrently.Leave a comment:
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How to explain this on my CV
Currently work perm and have done for a few years.
I did a three week sicky* in January and in that time did a contract at a media agency
Afterwards, I went back to the perm role, but I'm now so bored I want to jump out the window. Sorting out the CV - would you include the contract role on the CV ? How would I word it .. I would like to include it as it's a good name, but I'm concerned it will be hard to explain why I went back still on a perm basis
* after being told "you're not going to be paid for January because the company is going bust.." only it didn't
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