Good moring, ladies and gents.
I accepted last Thursday a contract through the recruitment agency Hays. The client is UCAS, in Cheltenham. I completed all the paperwork with Hays the day after. The start date was set to be Monday the 22nd of January.
I was at the time in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Having completed the paperwork, I secured accomodation in Cheltenham and booked a flight. I flew over yesterday, the 19th January. I am now in Cheltenham.
Durng the day, while I was travelling, the agent at Hays emailed me to say that UCAS had asked on the 18th for changes in their contract with Hays and until those changes were reviewed and accepted by Hays legal team, I could not start work with UCAS.
(It may be relevent to mention that I have incurred some cost to come to Cheltenham, about 1k GBP, as my rent in Santa Cruz was paid up till the 20th Feb and the month I've taken here is not refundable.)
Apparently Hays' legal team has a seven day SLA (presumably business days) but the agent has asked for an expedited response. This gives some guidance to how long the initial response might take but of couse nothing more.
Any words of wisdom?
My thought is to give Hays the time necessary to make a response, assuming it's on the order of the guideline timescale, as the matter may be dealt with out of hand, but, the same time, to resume tentative contact with the other contracts which were in-flight at the time I accepted the UCAS contract, as they may still be looking and I've already made some progress in applying. If Hays/UCAS take too long, or seem to be going to take too long, or be too unlikely to resolve the matter, to bail on that contract and simply move on.
I accepted last Thursday a contract through the recruitment agency Hays. The client is UCAS, in Cheltenham. I completed all the paperwork with Hays the day after. The start date was set to be Monday the 22nd of January.
I was at the time in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Having completed the paperwork, I secured accomodation in Cheltenham and booked a flight. I flew over yesterday, the 19th January. I am now in Cheltenham.
Durng the day, while I was travelling, the agent at Hays emailed me to say that UCAS had asked on the 18th for changes in their contract with Hays and until those changes were reviewed and accepted by Hays legal team, I could not start work with UCAS.
(It may be relevent to mention that I have incurred some cost to come to Cheltenham, about 1k GBP, as my rent in Santa Cruz was paid up till the 20th Feb and the month I've taken here is not refundable.)
Apparently Hays' legal team has a seven day SLA (presumably business days) but the agent has asked for an expedited response. This gives some guidance to how long the initial response might take but of couse nothing more.
Any words of wisdom?
My thought is to give Hays the time necessary to make a response, assuming it's on the order of the guideline timescale, as the matter may be dealt with out of hand, but, the same time, to resume tentative contact with the other contracts which were in-flight at the time I accepted the UCAS contract, as they may still be looking and I've already made some progress in applying. If Hays/UCAS take too long, or seem to be going to take too long, or be too unlikely to resolve the matter, to bail on that contract and simply move on.
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