You have options though which is great! Hopefully you have some time to decide and at least have a better sense from the contract role about the long term possibilities. Also I wonder if the rate/salary difference between a short term contract vs a part time perm would equal out over a 12 month period. I might be more inclined to take the (assumed) 6 month temp role thinking you could get extended or 6 months from now vaccines will have helped stabilise things and more opportunities are available.
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I have had an annoying week and need to vent. I was recently contacted about two different contract opportunities.
One of them I had two recruiters contact me about 20 minutes apart. Recruiter 1 I know better, plus they contacted me first so I told recruiter 2 I was going with first recruiter but if something changed I’d circle back. I go through the usual with recruiter 1, adjust some things on my resume which they always want, and submit it in. I then hear back late Tuesday that when the recruiter put forward my resume the account exec/manager refused it as they had “better candidates”. Sigh, fine, this isn’t the first time. I go back hat in hand to recruiter 2, and they tell me they have already submitted their allotted candidates. Not totally unexpected but annoying.
Then Wednesday I hear back from the recruiter on the other opportunity and it’s basically the exact same thing. Account exec is going with others because reasons. I’m mostly annoyed by this one as I spent a lot of time tweaking my resume and going back and forth with the recruiter to match things to the role. I also went the extra step of taking a quick course in a technology this position would work with. I feel like I spent 8 hours of work plus general “thinking about it” time for nothing.
I’m really tired of recruiters hyping up a role and then them not being the final decision makers and having account managers deny. I mostly feel like they’ve wasted my time and just added stress and annoyance.
At the end of the week I haven’t been submitted for either. I don’t mind losing out on a role if they saw my resume but had better candidates or I met the company and they just didn’t see a fit. I hate not getting that shot at all and hate that they never even saw my resume.
The lesson learned is to perhaps be more forceful with the recruiters and demand a right to represent or similar is signed before going ahead, especially when contacted for the same role by multiple agencies. I get that they are a business and need to put the best candidates forward, but don’t string me along. I don’t know what the answer is but these games suck. Captain, perhaps you have some insights from the other side.
I’m trying to take the positive that I learned something new that I can add to my resume and I have another version of my resume ready for a similar opportunity, but that only goes so far. It’ll happen when it happens as I like to say.
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