Once again I am being pursued by an employment agency. In the past these have started out with the person on the other end of the phone being really excited about finding someone with my background and skills available for work. Every one of them have ended abruptly. Some stopped communicating and some suddenly found a better candidate. And that's the last I ever hear from them.
This guy calls yesterday out of the blue. At first he has a neutral tone but as we talked more and more he seemed to be getting excited about placing me with one of the two contractors he's searching for. One is local and needs someone right away and, according to him, I am just what they are looking for and "finding someone who can do all you can do isn't easy."
Problem is when he checks my former employers one will will say, "Julie or Jim?" while the others will say, "I don't know a Julie but I know a Jim." In my line of work that's the kiss of death. And the local contractor he's working for knows my old bosses very well.
Yesterday I was pretty excited. I was thinking just maybe the background check wouldn't happen. But today I talked to the guy again and he asked me if the out of town job was what I wanted. Yesterday he was kind of pushing the local job. I hope I'm reading this wrong but I had a gut feeling I'm about to go through this crap again.
I told Julie today, "Take everything I've done up to my transition and I'm golden. After that I'm mud." We'll see...
