Whats peoples experience of how a large amount of bench time looks on your CV to agents and clients when going out trying to get your next role?
I would assume that no-one should be that bothered of a large period of bench time unless it was a good year or more, as surely this is contracting?? Sometimes there may not be jobs around, sometimes you may want a 3/6 month break.
The reason I ask is the company I am currently at has a new contractor starting and when they were looking through CV's they were put off one guy as he had been out of work for 3 months and were wondering why and dismissed the CV, could understand it maybe more in a permie role (but even then there may be good reason) but a contract role?
I would assume that no-one should be that bothered of a large period of bench time unless it was a good year or more, as surely this is contracting?? Sometimes there may not be jobs around, sometimes you may want a 3/6 month break.
The reason I ask is the company I am currently at has a new contractor starting and when they were looking through CV's they were put off one guy as he had been out of work for 3 months and were wondering why and dismissed the CV, could understand it maybe more in a permie role (but even then there may be good reason) but a contract role?
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