Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias

Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by ed_cr on Friday October 13, 2017 @07:41AM (#15464754)

It is why i like contracting and find it so more honest on my and companies side of things. They say "work here for 6 months", I say "ok" after that they can ask me to stay and I can agree or not or they can not renew me - either is fine.

Being an employee, generally (not always but it must be 99% of places) you need to:

1. love the company you are working for. 2. be willing to receive emails constantly. 3. not be attracted to other companies. 4. accept begin laid-off as and when the company desires.

Contracting on a fixed length contract, I am almost guaranteed to have work until the end of that contract - working for a company, 0 guarantee i will have a job in 1,2,6,12,18 whatever months.

(how the hell do you get lists on multiple lines here ha ha)

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by bradknowles on Saturday October 14, 2017 @03:57AM (#15471227)

Yeah, but then how long will you be out of work until the next contract comes along?

Years ago, I tried running my own consulting company. I found that I was fine at the technical side, but I really and truly sucked on the business side. I just couldn’t keep the contracts rolling in, and I couldn’t do the marketing and PR, etc....

More importantly, by trying so hard to do those things that I was really horribly bad at, I ended up hurting myself on the technical side.

So, how long can you afford to not have any income? How long until you go hungry and get kicked out into the cold?

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by ams6110 on Friday October 13, 2017 @08:39AM (#15465048)

> how the hell do you get lists on multiple lines here

Leave a blank line between each item.

1. Foo

2. Bar

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