A good place to find short-term (1-2 years) contracting jobs?
A good place to find short-term (1-2 years) contracting jobs?
(OP)
Hi all,
I am wondering if the people on here knows of a good place to be looking for 1-2 year contracting jobs for Electrical Engineers? More specifically in the energy/power field with a Masters and only a couple years of high level experience in the industry. Thanks for any help here!
-Brad
I am wondering if the people on here knows of a good place to be looking for 1-2 year contracting jobs for Electrical Engineers? More specifically in the energy/power field with a Masters and only a couple years of high level experience in the industry. Thanks for any help here!
-Brad






RE: A good place to find short-term (1-2 years) contracting jobs?
If your in fulltime employment my advice would be to stay there, two years experience is not a lot and the contracting game can be harsh.
When you go contracting you don't always get the help you might need, or the assistance to develop your experience, because people expect you to know and they are not there to teach you.
Reason I say this is I have been contracting for the last 15 years and I have seen a lot in that time,
Imagine going into a place on X dollars per hour and the fulltime staff percieve your rolling in money (even if its not true)and then you ask one of them a basic question or what they believe to be a basic question, how do you think some might react to that.
Take my adivce get some more experience first.
regards
desertfox
RE: A good place to find short-term (1-2 years) contracting jobs?
RE: A good place to find short-term (1-2 years) contracting jobs?
Expect cold weather, isolation and excellent pay. Still there are buses planes and highways. The Athabaska region is not the high arctic.
Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter
RE: A good place to find short-term (1-2 years) contracting jobs?
Try some of the engineer placement agencies in the UK such as Shanahan or NESCO. But be prepared to accept globalized conditions, that means competition with TCNs -third country nationals- working at rates Westerners would not consider.
Basically it is more or less hopeless for Westerners to get work at good rates abroad except maybe in the Oil and Gas fields but the TCNs are the norm.
On a site in the Mideast 10 years ago, we Westerners were getting around 7 to 8K Dollars on a 10 hr day 6 day week, as OEM reps. but already then engineers from E. Europe were being brought in at 1.5k dollars at the same work week and same qualifications.
The Thin End of the Wedge as it were.
Since then it has only gotten more shifted in favor of TCN rates which today maybe are a bit higher than 1.5k but still very cheap.
When dealing with agencies do not believe much of what they say, they will not tell you anything about the site or the client until you sign the contract. Same applies to food and accomodation. Best forget Hotels, you may never see one except when arriving or leaving...
El Cheapo is the norm...
rasevskii
RE: A good place to find short-term (1-2 years) contracting jobs?
RE: A good place to find short-term (1-2 years) contracting jobs?
http://www.infomine.com/careers/
Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter