How long before your contract end date do you start looking?

[MarillionFan]

Just wondering. My renewal date is on the 2nd week of May. Already been offered a two month extension, but though I might start applying if I can be bothered to look.

When do most members start looking? 1 week, 2 weeks, month, all of the time?

MF

[b0redom]

If onlt there were some form of poll technology......

[Churchill]

If onlt there were some form of poll technology......

What? Like a choosy option kinda thingy? Have a word with Admin see if he/she can rustle something up...

[expat]

Just wondering. My renewal date is on the 2nd week of May. Already been offered a two month extension, but though I might start applying if I can be bothered to look.

When do most members start looking? 1 week, 2 weeks, month, all of the time?

MF

I look 2 months in advance, to calm my OH's nerves because she is convinced that I will never work again and at the end of the current contract I will be unemployed, soon to be on the street.

Naturally there is nothing with a 2-month lead time, only a choice betweed PDQ and yesterday. But at least I am able to tell her that there is work out there.

(then 1 month 3 weeks later I look again and there's bugger all).

HTH

[Scrag Meister]

IMHO, in the current climate, as soon as you can.

My current gig ends at the end of May, been here 3 years then. I am already looking and interviewing.

Some clients want immediate starts but most long term contract clients 6 month+ are reasonably understanding of a months notice or so.

If you can secure a 12 monther and leave a month early, surely the maths add up unlesss you are expecting a lot of repeat business in the future from your current client, and dont want to upset them.

[MarillionFan]

If onlt there were some form of poll technology......

All right. ALL RIGHT!!!

Bloody pedants.

[MarillionFan]

WOW! Really! 1/3 of posters wait until they have finished their contracts!!!

[Sysman]

WOW! Really! 1/3 of posters wait until they have finished their contracts!!!

Used to. I normally get extensions so the end of a contract is time for hols or working on Plan B.

It's frustrating to look too far ahead.

[suityou01]

Just wondering. My renewal date is on the 2nd week of May. Already been offered a two month extension, but though I might start applying if I can be bothered to look.

When do most members start looking? 1 week, 2 weeks, month, all of the time?

MF

Sorry for the delay, still recovering from the fact that someone hired you.

[d000hg]

What do you mean, start looking?