Is a letter compulsory though?
Made redundant after less than 7 weeks!
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Is a letter compulsory though?
this sort of thing can happen with consultancies, though I'd hope they'd wait slightly longer than 7 weeks in most cases. A consultant is a cost to them unless he is working on client projects and generating billable hours - obviously there are gaps between projects etc.. and these are expected.
There are two obvious potential scenarios here where you can be hired then let go relatively quickly by a consultancy - if the company doesn't actually have work lined up or has had a project suddenly cancelled then they may need to find work for a whole bunch of consultants... maybe they can't and get rid of some... though that does seem to indicate the consultancy is badly run.
The other situation... this happened to a girl I used to work with - the client(s) don't want the consultant... this girl was nice enough but either she hyped up her CV/previous experience a bit or they didn't understand what she could do and tried to pitch her as a headcount for the wrong projects - I had one phone call about her from an ex colleague at one bank, the consultancy was trying to place her at that bank in a role way out of her depth. Unfortunately for her the various banks they tried to place her at rejected her and soon enough her linked in got updated to reflect she'd left the consultancy within a few months of joining.
on the plus side if it was just bad organisation on the part of the consultancy then the OP ought to be snapped up pretty quickly again or can just do it himself as a contractor (while contracting still exists) - on the other hand if clients didn't want him then best get on the phone to the previous employer.
There are two obvious potential scenarios here where you can be hired then let go relatively quickly by a consultancy - if the company doesn't actually have work lined up or has had a project suddenly cancelled then they may need to find work for a whole bunch of consultants... maybe they can't and get rid of some... though that does seem to indicate the consultancy is badly run.
The other situation... this happened to a girl I used to work with - the client(s) don't want the consultant... this girl was nice enough but either she hyped up her CV/previous experience a bit or they didn't understand what she could do and tried to pitch her as a headcount for the wrong projects - I had one phone call about her from an ex colleague at one bank, the consultancy was trying to place her at that bank in a role way out of her depth. Unfortunately for her the various banks they tried to place her at rejected her and soon enough her linked in got updated to reflect she'd left the consultancy within a few months of joining.
on the plus side if it was just bad organisation on the part of the consultancy then the OP ought to be snapped up pretty quickly again or can just do it himself as a contractor (while contracting still exists) - on the other hand if clients didn't want him then best get on the phone to the previous employer.
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How on earth are you supposed to prepare for "deal with client that you were being brought on board to work with pulled fell through at the last minute". There's due diligence and then there's asking someone successfully see into the future.
It's an IT services company in 2015, it's not like someone changing careers to retrain to drive steam trains in 1970.
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Sorry to hear OP 
Who knows, go back to your old company explaining the circumstances and they may jump at the chance to save on recruitment. Let's hope they haven't already filled your post though!
Who knows, go back to your old company explaining the circumstances and they may jump at the chance to save on recruitment. Let's hope they haven't already filled your post though!
Yup, no such thing as job security these days so might as well go self-employed and get paid for taking that risk.
Not sure but I assume so. It should indicate that it was Compulsory. I got a full letter with all the numbers and package to agree during the consultancy.