Reply to: on boarding

[BoredBloke]

1. You can undergo the process while still working for your previous contract (I have done it).

2. Who the f**k wants to work more than 220 days/year anyway, work to live, don't live to work.

1 - The role came up when I still had a week to run with my last client. It look them from the 13th until the 26th to arrange an interview. On the 2nd they decide to offer it to me and on the 9th made the offer. Then they added the 4 weeks on boarding.

2 - I do. I want to take time off when I want, not when it's convenient for them.

I've other irons in the fire.....fingers crossed

[sal]

4 weeks every six months - max billable year of 220 days

1. You can undergo the process while still working for your previous contract (I have done it).

2. Who the f**k wants to work more than 220 days/year anyway, work to live, don't live to work.

[radish2008]

It was only 4 weeks, the entire December.

4 weeks every six months - max billable year of 220 days

[fullyautomatix]

One of the things that drives me mad about present day onboarding is the sheer volume of information that they want that gets duplicated (triplicated for my last role). e.g. they want details of every conract I performed in the last 5 years and I had to fill in 3 subtley different forms all wanting variations on the same thing.

Can't there just be a standard industry template for this kind of stuff??

Well, they are not forcing you to take up the role so feel free to tell them to feck off and shove their onboarding up their arses.

[fullyautomatix]

Wait until you find out about the 8 weeks furlough.

It was only 4 weeks, the entire December.

[The Castle Cary Fairy]

One of the things that drives me mad about present day onboarding is the sheer volume of information that they want that gets duplicated (triplicated for my last role). e.g. they want details of every conract I performed in the last 5 years and I had to fill in 3 subtley different forms all wanting variations on the same thing.

Can't there just be a standard industry template for this kind of stuff??

[washed up contractor]

Just landed a role with HSBC and been told that the on boarding will take 4 weeks. Is that normal. I've worked for a few banks but never had one tell me that it's going to mean I have to earn sod all for a 12th of the year before I can get on site. TBH the guy touched on it in the interview but he said it like it could be up to 4 weeks. What it actually is, is 4 weeks and possibly longer!

Tell 'em to feck off, Steve.

[Zigenare]

Wait until you find out about the 8 weeks furlough.

Just make sure your annual vacation/plan B coincides with the furlough.

Gratis.

[radish2008]

Just landed a role with HSBC and been told that the on boarding will take 4 weeks. Is that normal. I've worked for a few banks but never had one tell me that it's going to mean I have to earn sod all for a 12th of the year before I can get on site. TBH the guy touched on it in the interview but he said it like it could be up to 4 weeks. What it actually is, is 4 weeks and possibly longer!

Wait until you find out about the 8 weeks furlough.

[radish2008]

Im at HSBC now as well!

Where are you Stek ?

[BoredBloke]

This problem is just getting worse everywhere. When I started freelancing in the early '90s you did the interview on Thursday afternoon, got a call from the agent on the Friday and started on Monday. The agent met you for lunch with the contract.

No wonder the UK productivity graph is going south.

Totally agree. Everything is done at the pace of the slowest of all lame snails. They ask for a million forms to be signed and scanned and emailed back. They wanted full details of every contract I've had over the past 5 years with contact names, addresses, phone numbers and emails. All of this the recommend is done in the first 24 hours, but then take a month to work through it.

Somewhere somebody will be saying how they have improved the process by outsourcing the reference checking but the guy who wanted me to start wanted somebody when we did the interview (26th april). Because of the delays they have caused to themselves, I won't be starting until the 6th June at the earliest. So they get no resource for ages and I get no money in the meantime.

If this is the new norm, it means if you get a 3 month gig, you should start the search for your next role as soon as the ink has dried on the contract you've just signed. One of my mates said his role at RBS took 13 weeks from the point of seeing the contract advertised to the point where his ar5e touched their seat!

[TwoWolves]

Is Uk productivity going south?

Correction: flatlined.

[woohoo]

This problem is just getting worse everywhere. When I started freelancing in the early '90s you did the interview on Thursday afternoon, got a call from the agent on the Friday and started on Monday. The agent met you for lunch with the contract.

No wonder the UK productivity graph is going south.

Is Uk productivity going south?

[TwoWolves]

Last week I was told the role was mine. Its taken till today to get me the offer and now the start date is 6th June at the earliest. There is some system that reed have that is used to do the background checks and it's currently taking 4 whole weeks. There was a time when contractors were needed for urgent roles. Now we have a role I applied for on the 13th of April with an earliest start date of 6th June! 7.5 weeks!!

This problem is just getting worse everywhere. When I started freelancing in the early '90s you did the interview on Thursday afternoon, got a call from the agent on the Friday and started on Monday. The agent met you for lunch with the contract.

No wonder the UK productivity graph is going south.

[BoredBloke]

Last week I was told the role was mine. Its taken till today to get me the offer and now the start date is 6th June at the earliest. There is some system that reed have that is used to do the background checks and it's currently taking 4 whole weeks. There was a time when contractors were needed for urgent roles. Now we have a role I applied for on the 13th of April with an earliest start date of 6th June! 7.5 weeks!!