Interviewing mid-contract

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Reputation goes before you. The only advantage you have is that we can't attach a name to your username (yet)...

I know it's all thanks to NLUK (and now SimonMac). Cheers guys!

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Do you interview mid-contract to stay current with what's out there in terms of rates and roles?

So there's a role spec that feels right, but your renewal is still a few months away. Is talking to the hiring manager early improves or reduces your chances that in a few months time your name will spring to his mind?

Cheers.

It's something I used to do when I had concerns about finding my next contract. Don't do it anymore as it will piss of agents and clientco (as others pointed out in this thread).

[eek]

Reputation goes before you. The only advantage you have is that we can't attach a name to your username (yet)...

[SimonMac]

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

No unless you are NorthWestPerm2Contractor

[EternalOptimist]

no

gaps between contracts are holidays.

[SimonMac]

Unless, you want to take the mickey...

I assume there is a lot of piss taking around this

[fullyautomatix]

I'm not gonna waste my time, and my money interviewing for a job I'm not gonna take, and as for getting in good with the hiring manager a few months down the line a) they probably won't remember you and b) they want someone now not later

Unless, you want to take the mickey...

[DirtyDog]

Do you interview mid-contract to stay current with what's out there in terms of rates and roles?

No. Ridiculous waste of my time and theirs.

So there's a role spec that feels right, but your renewal is still a few months away. Is talking to the hiring manager early improves or reduces your chances that in a few months time your name will spring to his mind?

The only way that the agent might remember you is as that annoying twat who wasted their time and mine, trying to get a role that I needed to start straight away and couldn't start for a few months.

[SimonMac]

I'm not gonna waste my time, and my money interviewing for a job I'm not gonna take, and as for getting in good with the hiring manager a few months down the line a) they probably won't remember you and b) they want someone now not later

[SimonMac]

Care to elaborate? ))

No

[mickey]

No unless you are NorthWestPerm2Contractor

Care to elaborate? ))

[SimonMac]

No unless you are NorthWestPerm2Contractor

[mickey]

Do you interview mid-contract to stay current with what's out there in terms of rates and roles?

So there's a role spec that feels right, but your renewal is still a few months away. Is talking to the hiring manager early improves or reduces your chances that in a few months time your name will spring to his mind?

Cheers.