[Courses] [Careers] From 'I must have a job' to 'I must have a wonderful job'

[Silvia RM Alvaro]

It is a very common hiring practice in Spain too. Most companies hire
other companies to hire the people for them (but they get the medical
aid and retirement plans) . We call outsourcing I think :-)

Silvia

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:36:03 -0800, Julie Bovee <joulie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:14:23 -0500, Katie Bechtold
> <katie at katie-and-rob.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:07:12PM +0100, Karine Proot wrote:
> > > "service" companies (do you have a proper name in Australia? I couldn't
> > > find something suitable)
> >
> > That arrangement sounds very similar to what I (in the U.S.) would
> > call a consultancy.
> >
> 
> We call them consulting companies in the U.S., and the people who work
> for them are called consultants. I have some friends who do that for a
> very large firm, but they're very unhappy: bad pay, long hours, little
> choice of the work to do, and contracts that prevent them from being
> hired by the company the are contracted out to.
> 
> Some people here are very successful at doing contracting work without
> going through a consulting company, but the disadvantages are that
> when the contract is over they don't continue to get paid until they
> find a new position and they don't get company-paid health insurance
> and retirement plans.
> 
> I've encountered employers on job interviews (in the U.S.) who did not
> look favorably on consulting jobs. They actually considered it a
> reason not to hire someone. I found that same negative attitude toward
> work experience at start-up companies, too. I never did understand why
> some had those attitudes.  Does anyone have any ideas on that?
> 
> Julie
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