Reply to: Interview Advice

[Freamon]

It's a team rolling out relatively new approaches within the business, so as well as actually doing the work, practitioners should be an advocate for change and be able to educate business teams, and bring them around. In their experience it's been a challenge to find contractors prepared/able to properly engage the business at that level, most just want to be left to their own devices.

This is always the hardest requirement to fill IMO - someone who has the technical expertise to perform the role, and yet can still communicate with the business and get underneath their processes and issues. People with both technical and business knowledge are hard to find.

[mudskipper]

WSS - well done!

[Zippy]

I was offered both contracts today.

[EternalOptimist]

I'm not convinced I'd want to work for someone who by the time they got to number eight on a list of ten items had forgotten whether this was a list of things that they want or do not want.

aye

Anyone who goes to an interview armed with this 'wisdom' is assuming that all interviwers are the same and they all have the same criteria.
You have to be quick on your feet and read the situation imho

[TheFaQQer]

"I have interviewed dozens of IT contractors. Some I will hire before others. The following are the type of IT contractors I do not want.

<snip>
8. Those with Longer Contracts

I'm not convinced I'd want to work for someone who by the time they got to number eight on a list of ten items had forgotten whether this was a list of things that they want or do not want.

[TheFaQQer]

Repeat after me "There is only one contractor site. There is only one contractor site. There is only one contractor site. There is only one contractor site."

Tell that to the Advertising Standards Authority.

Oh wait, you did.....

[administrator]

Well done RH Glad it all worked out!

It's from another 'contractor' site. They've not done it yet.

Seeing as the first was in 2006 we may be waiting a while for the follow up

There's a few. ContractorUK is No 2 in the Top 10 Contractor sites. I cannot list it as Admin gets funny about it when he looks in his magic mirror.

Repeat after me "There is only one contractor site. There is only one contractor site. There is only one contractor site. There is only one contractor site."

[realityhack]

Aha, tourist booking software for the cruise ship industry

Yep, although they still need bailouts from time to time.

igmc

[EternalOptimist]

Cheers all - nice to know the market's still buoyant in certain sectors.

Aha, tourist booking software for the cruise ship industry

[realityhack]

Shall we have a sweepstake on when RH is going to do a Suity and come and moan about his new contract ?

Congrats on the new contract.

I'll go for 2 weeks. Possibly about the nightmare 16hr day situation I just found myself in.

Cheers all - nice to know the market's still buoyant in certain sectors.

[realityhack]

Out of interest what did they mean by 'contractors with a certain mindset'?

It's a team rolling out relatively new approaches within the business, so as well as actually doing the work, practitioners should be an advocate for change and be able to educate business teams, and bring them around. In their experience it's been a challenge to find contractors prepared/able to properly engage the business at that level, most just want to be left to their own devices.

[MarillionFan]

There's another?

There's a few. ContractorUK is No 2 in the Top 10 Contractor sites. I cannot list it as Admin gets funny about it when he looks in his magic mirror.

[fullyautomatix]

Shall we have a sweepstake on when RH is going to do a Suity and come and moan about his new contract ?

Congrats on the new contract.

[Notascooby]

It's from another 'contractor' site. They've not done it yet.

There's another?

[MarillionFan]

Nice read....care to post the follow-up for completeness?

It's from another 'contractor' site. They've not done it yet.