Re: Contractors: Local jobs, out of town recruiters?

["David Loveless" <daveloveless -at- gmail -dot- com>]

My experience is just the opposite. I've had multiple contract offers.
About half have been local companies with local offers, but I get an
offer from one company based out of Salt Lake City for work in
Cleveland, Boston, and Miami. They even went so far as to offer to fly
me out each Monday and fly me back each Friday. That seemed a little
ridiculous when they could probably easily find a solid writer that
lived local to that area.

I prefer the permanent style of working though, so I only accept local
part-time contracts that don't interfer with my "real" job and life.

Dave

On 3/1/06, Clare Turner <cturner -at- redflex -dot- com> wrote:
> I think it depends on the part of the country you're in.  I occasionally
> get emails from out of state (got one yesterday from OR for a job in
> OR), but as a rule, I hear from local companies.  Then again, I've been
> contracting for over 10 years, and have an extensive network of
> contacts, so that's probably a big factor as the majority are from
> companies with whom I've either worked in the past or had previous
> contact.  Maybe 25% are new, unsolicited (even tho' I've had a perm gig
> for 8 months now) - I get about 1/week as a rule.
>
> Clare L. Turner
> Technical Writer
> Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc.
> 15020 N. 74th Street
> Scottsdale, AZ 85260
> 480.607.3583
>
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> Subject: Contractors: Local jobs, out of town recruiters?
>
> I have been seeing interesting local contracts announced by recruiters
> from
> anywhere but local.  This seems to be getting more typical, where a
> recruiter
> in Michigan or Florida or California contacts me about work 20 miles
> from my
> door in Washington.  What seems really odd is that they often do this a
> week
> or more before any local recruiter has the job listed.
>
> What is going on??  One local telecom employer I know uses a big
> staffing
> provider with headquarters out east, and they fit this profile of
> contacting
> me a week or two ahead of local recruiters.
>
> At least 80% of the work I hear about between Portland Ore and Seattle
> WA is
> announced first by distant agencies. I sometimes send a resume, rarely
> hear
> anything more.  Is this for real, that there is a big de-localization of
>
> contract announcements going on?
>
> So, I am noting a change.  Does this ring any bells?  Anybody?
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