Hoping around from contract job to.......to contract job. I am seeing alot of companies are now outsourcing and hiring contract workers more than keeping full time staff or just limiting their full time staff. Now as an employee, does it look good that I keep hoping from contract job to contract job, since most contract jobs are temporary work? (I always hear about how recruiters say.....if you stick around long enough, they MIGHT hire you full time!) But I think that's just a hook to get you in. Some contract jobs are limited to a year or so and that'sa bout it, then you are back being unemployed until you find another contract job. But since contract work is becoming more accepted, I guess having a year to year paragraph of different contract work you do more acceptable? You are basically taking assignments as t hey come along. If you are performing contract work for a company, you aren't their employee. You are their contractor for the applicable work. You are self-employed, your employer has not changed, and as such you have not job hopped at all. Nobody can fire you, except you. Are home builders job hopping every time they finish a home and start a new one? No, I'm not self employed....I work for a contractor called "Company ABC", they hire me to do work for their client (perhaps its SUB contracting then?)
ok then technically you are an employee of the recruiter - so you list them as yoru employer and under the job descriptipn put various consulting positions - if you read the fine print of any of these contracts with recuiters it plainly spells out that you are THEIR employee - they are the ones that pay you -
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