Last couple years I have been contracting with the promise of potential hire. I’ve worked at Cisco, Walmart, Intuit, and Facebook now Meta. My contracts usually get renewed unless the team Im on wraps the project and the budget is no longer existent for that team. The full-timers get moved to other teams and a majority of the contractors are let go. I have been contracting out of necessity, I’d love to be full time at any one of these companies or similar. So how is it people find the full-time roles to apply? Or get converted? More so when it seems to be a taboo subject for contractors to bring up for discussion.
Work good, better than FTE. Then hiring manager can tip off between the line like “what are you planning to do with your career…”
why are you not aiming for full time roles when you apply? Just curious
I apparently have a knack for finding contract based rolls and or them finding me. I’ve also been lead to believe that the only way to get a full-time role in a larger company is through an external agency placing you in one, or placing you as a contractor and then there’s a implied intent of conversion to full-timer
Advocates. You listed companies, but no advocates. Otherwise you are one of millions of external applicants
Stop contracting. Do not respond to contractor requests from recruiters. Straighten up that LinkedIn. If you worked for Meta as a contractor, you worked for Meta, do not specify in what capacity. You should be getting tons of interviews for FTE at companies.
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Converting from contracting to full-time was always an easy option for me. I was a contractor for several years and always turned down full-time opportunities because I would end up making like half. I only went full-time when I finally got an offer that resulted in me making more.
In ops case FTE will yield better outcome.