Re: Transitioning from Consulting/Contracting to Permanent Positions

[stephen -dot- arrants -at- attbi -dot- com]

I've only encountered resistance in three areas:

1. Being mistaken for, or treated as, an employee.  Minor things like having HR 
send me stern reminder mail that I missed the benefits or some such meeting and 
that I must go the the HR office "right away".  If they can't remember that I'm 
not an employee...

2. Not wanting to take a perm. position with a company.  A couple of places 
found it really odd that I was happier as an hourly freelancer.

3. Reminding management that I'm hourly, not an exempt employee, and that I 
charge them for the REQUIRED weekend work-a-thon.

In all cases being firm, polite, and assertive cleared things up.


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