About 2 years ago I thought I had placed a senior contractor (I had even driven him to the interview) at a good client of mine. The b**tard then decides to change his mind at the last minute. Part of me wants to throw my toys out of the pram, but I didnt. I didnt rubbish the contractor, and to be honest I should have spotted the signs earlier and dealt with him before hand.
The senior contractor and I did not fall out. He was not particularly contrite or apologetic about what had happened, but c'est la vie. Today we have another job for him at a new client and one of my staff calls him. True to form he gives my resourcer a good grilling about the role and agrees for us to send him forward, but no CV arrives.
We call him and he tells us that he is going direct as he knows one of the senior managers at the client site (to be fair he knew about the jobs anyway)
So I call him and appeal to his kinder nature (though he had never shown any signs of having one) and remind him of the fact that thanks to us taking much of the blame he was not spoiled from going back to that client. Anyway much to my surprise it worked and he has agreed to go through us.
The moral is that no matter how much people shi* on you, always keep your foot in the door as one day it might just open up for you.
The senior contractor and I did not fall out. He was not particularly contrite or apologetic about what had happened, but c'est la vie. Today we have another job for him at a new client and one of my staff calls him. True to form he gives my resourcer a good grilling about the role and agrees for us to send him forward, but no CV arrives.
We call him and he tells us that he is going direct as he knows one of the senior managers at the client site (to be fair he knew about the jobs anyway)
So I call him and appeal to his kinder nature (though he had never shown any signs of having one) and remind him of the fact that thanks to us taking much of the blame he was not spoiled from going back to that client. Anyway much to my surprise it worked and he has agreed to go through us.
The moral is that no matter how much people shi* on you, always keep your foot in the door as one day it might just open up for you.
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