Lately I put to my chagrin, once again determined that project client and project negotiations appeared to believe that you can jump around with freelancers, as one is just funny. To briefly outline the topic: I am since 2005 working as a freelance consultant in the IT field. Projects at larger companies are usually given only to project agencies in order that at such a tender compete against each other often. For their brokerage services, these companies pay cash pretty decent percentage of the hourly rates, which end-users in this way conveyed to the consultant.
The usual procedure is to these agencies, requests for tender, the roll along with them to set their own websites and / or a specialized online vendors such as GULP.de . Since almost no promoter ever takes the trouble to rewrite such business calls in your own words, we find In this way, often with multiple vendors and the same text. As an interested professionals write these companies to be explained in many words, why you're the perfect candidate for this and this exact project and sends the respective Project Agencies to his adviser profile.
usually is then required of one, the data in it again in one or sometimes several, to write, of course, for each intermediary firm-specific forms (as if you had nothing better to do - what these companies actually get their percentages?). Then you end up with his data with the respective agents in a large database, hears in the vast majority Cases from the originally requested project ever again, but possibly later contacted again for further projects. Some sellers will be the same forms over and over again but complete. Sometimes even by fax!
do about this everyday madness addition, some brokers or companies they represent clients but every now and again a behavior that one only shake his head and doubting his common sense can. In early 2006 I had presented such as a broker for a project at one of the world's leading airlines. For months, said everything was clear, the client wanted me supposedly necessarily hire and there were supposedly only to clarify details, so that it would supposedly every day with the project can start. After more than three months, then suddenly dropped from one day to the other, the entire project without any justification.
something very similar I am experiencing currently with a project promoter, which has a fairly large customer in the field of - say - serves local provider. For about a month, said sources with the project procurement and over again that the customer has an acute need for immediate support for a very urgent project. Apparently me to the project manager responsible for the client in the very near Opportunity to call - it is now called meanwhile for more than four weeks. Apparently he does not always do so because his project so badly understaffed and so is that he does not even have time to find, to take care of the necessary external support. So, the man I'd like to help ...
Just this morning I phoned the secretary of the concerned project mediation again. Her boss told her to call me again and I like to inform that her client now but I really certainly very important today would call during the day, perhaps, if he should not forget .. . Needless to say that This call is full-bodied, announced today failed yet again. I would really even know whether these people believe in all seriousness that one has to do as a freelancer nothing better than to wait for months just to see if they now decide to or not. Presumably they believe it actually. But it is not natural!
Another farce from the project's broker comedy barn I am experiencing at the moment just with a different service provider who participates in a tender for the public service. As you know, do not get as an independent freelancer job references for his completed projects, like the public customer to replace these missing naturally written references apparently by his own hand-knitted form on which to certify the project from his final project can be that what and how well you worked there. The tragic climax of this approach is the customary in the industry absolutely beautiful word: "The assessment of the project must make use of a contact person from the reference project."
The choice of words here makes me suspect that either the agent or go out (more likely) be a customer of the public sector from completely false assumptions about the real economy. One contact a reference project * must * in principle once nothing, but is at most kindly and in the absence of any information obligation, if it allows him for his time and own workload, which can be considered just not now necessarily self-evident . Finally, it is indeed neither the agents nor their customers pay for this performance.
As a former employee in the project I can about him more than politely ask * give * someone like information - but it's not in my power to demand this ultimate or force at all. After all, should such things that do not belong to the job of the respondents or to the operations of his employer, get compared to your actual project work, and especially for a project, the lowest possible priority. So it is quite presumptuous, if a broker or his client as expected, of course, that other companies provide similar information with priority for expensive paid working hours.
Nevertheless, I have forwarded that copy with a nice verbal bouquet to my previous project to complete. I then witnessed the next nasty surprise. The project client, a major German company, one is obviously the administrative opinion that one should not give such information, because I do not have a contract with the company itself, but one with my placement and in turn their part, had been with the company. Accordingly, in the opinion of the company must fill out the form on my mediation. Man kapriziert on the (legally yet unfortunately totally unfounded) statement that one should even give any information about the work of external consultants in their own home, but must leave this to the project promoters.
This results, of course, two basic problems. For one thing, frankly No one in this project switching the slightest idea what I have during my nearly three years in this project done professionally and technically. It has also never been interested in someone, because the recruitment company has also conceded so always pretty their percentages. Only the monthly bills for my hours were completed over the mediation. The management or the management of the company would therefore certainly not the right person to qualified information to my potential new customers.
Second, my previous project mediation certainly do the devil, through the willing supply of information about my work in my previous Project to another project as a direct placement to help competitors to win a call for projects. From this page is thus certainly not support expected (even if, as I said, probably would be of little help). Not to mention the fact that my current negotiations with any other intermediaries my previous project also address placement is hardly anything. And all this only because my former client cross was raised for some unknown reasons, although even then he had demanded before the project starts, all possible information.
Total myself this a call for projects with all the various Ausfüllerei has questionable forms, sending, receiving, replying, forwarding, sending back and archive e-mails, begging for references and the extensive explanations for the new project placement and for their end-users in the public service has already cost so much work that the value of below market in euro credit Hourly rates slowly but surely the three-digit upward leaves. And even though neither is certain that the placement actually has a chance to win the public tender, or that I would, if successful, will actually commissioned this project. And for my efforts so far of course I get even if successful, not cents.
I praise me in the end but almost back those companies who report to the letters of applicants consistently and did not give even a rejection, if one is not taken into account or from the whole project came to nothing. It is indeed logically not get out, but in this case, wasted one's precious time, at least not in the end, completely useless work and not spend weeks again and again whole days to fill completely useless forms or trantütigen, incompetent or just provide information unwilling agents chasing . But professionals can make a man's so obviously ...
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