This article provides excellent insight into contemporary recruiting techniques.
Contracting agencies are inherently predatory.
'Working hard' to get 'hired on full-time' has and always will be a myth. The 'corporate finance' line makes no sense. If the company didn't have the budget to bring you on full-time then they wouldn't have had the budget to bring you on as a contractor.
My entire employment history consists of contract gigs like this and they all play out the same way.
1) Promise of a full-time position
2) Excuses like 'It's not in this year's budget, but we're in the process of renegotiating the budget so we can have some of you contractors brought on full-time'
3) Contract's extended indefinitely/you're let go only to be offered another contract position with the same organization several months later
Regulations to stop this may be necessary.
Hell, one of my previous co-workers has a PhD in mathematics from an Ivy League university and was being paid $15/hr by a contracting agency to work as a programmer while some of our teammates had no IT experience and struggled to figure out how to use their computers.
Right now I'm working for a contracting company at a massive healthcare organization (16,000+ employees) as 1 of 9 people on our IAM team where I'm tasked with automating all the things and I'm only making $24/hr while the full-time employees that do less work are being paid double, some even triple what I earn.
Contracting agencies are inherently predatory.
'Working hard' to get 'hired on full-time' has and always will be a myth. The 'corporate finance' line makes no sense. If the company didn't have the budget to bring you on full-time then they wouldn't have had the budget to bring you on as a contractor.
My entire employment history consists of contract gigs like this and they all play out the same way.
1) Promise of a full-time position
2) Excuses like 'It's not in this year's budget, but we're in the process of renegotiating the budget so we can have some of you contractors brought on full-time'
3) Contract's extended indefinitely/you're let go only to be offered another contract position with the same organization several months later
Regulations to stop this may be necessary.
Hell, one of my previous co-workers has a PhD in mathematics from an Ivy League university and was being paid $15/hr by a contracting agency to work as a programmer while some of our teammates had no IT experience and struggled to figure out how to use their computers.
Right now I'm working for a contracting company at a massive healthcare organization (16,000+ employees) as 1 of 9 people on our IAM team where I'm tasked with automating all the things and I'm only making $24/hr while the full-time employees that do less work are being paid double, some even triple what I earn.