BD i got turned down for a job today and wont find out if i made the short list for yesterday's til end of next week. I really loathe job hunting. I will start considering long term temp positions soon. Any idea when you expect to hear anything?
Sorry to hear you got turned down. I agree about the loathing job hunting - I need to start soon (next week) but is so depressing I really don't want to. Everything is so short term - I just can't turn my life upside down and sort out necessary care arrangements to go full-time for a 3 month contract (and one where they will only decide to renew or not in last week). I can't understand the logic behind it - companies spend a fortune with recruitment agencies to try and get right candidate but then are not confident enough in that to give a decent length contract (on a 9 month project makes very little sense to give 3 month contracts for example) so then the contractor will spend the last four weeks job hunting and then they might decide in last week is time to offer renewal by which point the contractor has found a better offer and so they have to go through the recruitment process again.

In my last role on my last day they asked me to stay they were offering slightly more money but only for January (I had already cancelled childcare for DD (you have to give them 4 weeks notice) I mean really what planet are they on that they think I can just drop all my plans and make rearrangements for care for just an assurance of 4 extra weeks of work.