Thanks for the informative response. Since it was two different companies,
it was kind of a hassle to fill out all of the paperwork for just one job. I
gave up contacting them for "more work." I hope to find a company that would
use me for more than one job in the future. Even 2 would be nice!
Brian
"martin426" <> wrote in message
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> Yes. On the opposite end though. Up until May I worked for an IT
> Asset Management firm based out of Bellevue, WA. We had contracts
> with companies such as IBM and Compaq to do massive software rollouts,
> wall 2 wall inventories, etc. Typically, we would hire independent
> contractors (read TEMPS) in a city for which a company had a major
> presense (ie: We did Viacom in NYC). We would use them for the local
> area and any nearby cities, then let them go and hire a new team say
> when we headed to Boston. The company line was always "There may be
> more work." Sometimes this was true, but not always. For NYC we
> hired 30+ people, and perhaps 2-5 of those were used on other projects
> at a later date. Personally, I was hired on as a team lead for a
> project in Boston, then moved on to other projects, while the people
> we hired in each location were technicians. My experience was that
> the technicians who stood out from the crowd as far as effort, desire
> to learn new things, and ability were sought for further employment.
> Another factor was their ability to cover their own expenses. In my
> case, I would typically carry 5,000-10,000 in expenses weekly for
> myself and people who could not cover there own expenses.
>
> As for why we would do it this way, the skills that are available far
> exceeded our needs, and hiring managers would often recieve
> 200,300,400 resumes from one job posting. Since 90% of those had the
> skills to do the job, training would take 1-3 days for the particular
> project. (Although for some companies extensive training was required.
> For instance, a pharmaceutical company would require extensive safety
> training since we would be working in labs and sometimes around
> animals.)
>
> "Brian" <> wrote in message
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> > Hi!
> >
> > In the past year, I've seen jobs on Monster.com and the such about
> > installing PC's at locations. I signed up for one and did the job and
they
> > said "more work is coming." Nothing came. I signed up for another one
with
> > another company, did the job and the same thing "more work is coming"
and I
> > never got called again.
> >
> > Anyone else experience this? Why would they hire a new person for each
job?
> > Or were these truly one time jobs and no more work came up?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
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