Re:The rise of never-ending job interviews
by duped on Monday August 02, 2021 @01:13AM
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Just personally I would never accept an offer that was contract for hire and think it's downright insulting a suggestion. My family needs health insurance and the market has never been so cold that I'd be desperate enough to take such a garbage offer.
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Nothing about contracting precludes having health insurance though? For the roles and situations I'm talking about this would all just be factored into the rates.
Re:The rise of never-ending job interviews
by tfehring on Monday August 02, 2021 @10:47AM
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Even if they can just pay for health insurance out of pocket, they’d be switching plans twice, and each time they’d reset their deductible and possibly need to find a new doctor.
When I was an actuary we used to do “intern to hire” for unemployed recent grads, but I can’t imagine leaving a full time position for a contract-to-hire position. I think for me personally the opportunity would have to be really interesting and the comp upon converting to FTE would need to be at least double my previous comp (meaning the contracted rate would probably be something like 4x my implied hourly).