Temp services and resume forwarding
1. How long should I wait to reply?
2. What should I say in my reply? I'm assuming that the shorter it is the better, so should I merely say "Thank you for contacting me. I'd be grateful for the referral. I look forward to hearing from you." ? (obviously should be better worded)
3. They asked for salary requirement, and availability. A quick check at Salary.com shows about twice what I'm earning now. Should I go with what Salary.com says? Higher? Lower?
4. Availability. Should I give a time frame, or say that I'm available immediately?
Some background on my current field of work:
I recently took a six month course at a local adult education/vocational school in CAD Drafting, and upon completion of my internship was hired at the company I interned at. I've been working here full time for about nine months working for a small family owned electronics manufacturer in the drafting department (actually I AM the drafting department, just me
I'll be grateful for any advice.
Thanks.
Step back and look at the forest.
Here are the pluses.
You took a 6 month course and now have a permanent job doing it. Excellent results and kudos to you.
Here is the middle of the road.
You have been there less then a year, so other companies see you as junior to entry level.
Here is the unknown.
The other job, is it a permanent or temporary? Temporary could mean from one week to years. If they say it is a temp to perm, it’s still a temp job. What if you quit your perm job and work at the other place for a month and the job ends. Are there other prospects if that does happen? Say it is a real perm job. At your level of experience in a big company you are just a clog in the gears. If they feel there is a hint of any problems with you, they will discharge you. That would include personality conflicts. If you come from a soc-eco class your coworkers hate, guess what will happen.
Possible negative out come.
You leave your job and take this one. After a month they don’t need you any more and cut you loose. On your resume companies see a six month course, nine months at one job and one month at another job. When they step back and look at your resume and wonder why you can’t keep a job longer then a year? Then they will make a judgment call that you are a job hopper and possibly incompetent.
What I would do.
Stay where you are now and give it another year so you can at least put on your resume that you have been at current job for 2 years. You may be salivating over this new job but what is worse the devil you know or don’t. One time I had just moved to a new city for a new job and it was decent. This one company found me and made their pitch of how great the job was and it was a lot more money and a ground floor opportunity in a new company. At first I balked at it but they kept calling me everyday. So I gave in and took the job. It turned out to be the job from HELL and I only lasted six months before they fired me. I found another job but had to take a big cut in pay. As in salary.com, I have looked at those numbers and sometimes I wonder where they got them. Some are on the money but others are not.