Reply to: At last, off the bench after 11 months

[SeekingIT]

Nice One!!!



Very Well Done Sir!!!!

[alreadypacked]

Congrats!

When do you start?

[TheFaQQer]

WELS (What everyone else said!)

[Pondlife]

Excellent News.

[BoltonLad]

Congrats!

[lilelvis2000]

Gosh! Though I would comment why you relied on agents to get work and not tried networking yourself to get contracts directly?

[stingman123]

Congrats, Beers?

[Zippy]

Congrats

[DS23]

to wg

[worzelGummidge]

I do Unix infrastructure type work: middleware, security, backups, storage type work. I tried developer / programming but just lost interest.

[TinTrump]

Well done WG! And working from home too =

[gingerjedi]

That matches my experience.

I had a lovely call from a bloke from Parity today. "I called to let you know you can cross that gig off your list; I had already arranged interviews when I saw your CV. You shouldn't be on the bench. Can I make some suggestions about your CV? [he did and they made sense] And here's how to get into NPfIT if you want some of that work..."

I must have caught him on a very good day!

The only decent agent I ever met now works for Parity, his initials weren't MM by any chance?

If I'm right he's good for a free lunch every other month.

[SantaClaus]

That matches my experience.

I had a lovely call from a bloke from Parity today. "I called to let you know you can cross that gig off your list; I had already arranged interviews when I saw your CV. You shouldn't be on the bench. Can I make some suggestions about your CV? [he did and they made sense] And here's how to get into NPfIT if you want some of that work..."

I must have caught him on a very good day!

Sorry, I just had to sit down in shock. I think you just mentioned that you found an agent who cared!

[RichardCranium]

The different thing this time around is that only the young, just out of school agents seem to bat an eye when faced with a CV containing my most recent contract being more then six months ago.

That matches my experience.

I had a lovely call from a bloke from Parity today. "I called to let you know you can cross that gig off your list; I had already arranged interviews when I saw your CV. You shouldn't be on the bench. Can I make some suggestions about your CV? [he did and they made sense] And here's how to get into NPfIT if you want some of that work..."

I must have caught him on a very good day!

[wurzel]

Well done. By the way, what area do you work in? I'm in c#/.Net 3.5 /C++ & I've been on the bench for 2 months now with just 1 interview so I'm expecting a long stint myself.