Experience Oleg is experience. Short-term or long-term isn't your fault, it is the job market right now. However, you are still working! Don't let anyone ever tell you short-term isn't experience, when it is!! Sounds a bit discriminatory in that ppl go where the work is we don't wait for it to find us. I contract my skills out to the highest bidder in the legal field to avoid the nonsense. Find a salary a lititle beneath and then do not go below that. Your skills and experience is all we have today. I'mean happy your working but maybe they could be testing you and giving you time to acclimate on the job? Just do a good job, ask questions, and take one day at a time.

I left a long-term contractor's job in October. I JUST got an offer for a new position last week, and that's after I don't know how many interviews, some for really badly paid positions. What seemed to get the application process going was creating an online CV (on a personal website) and also applying to a job every single day. In the end, I got three offers on the same day, discarded one (the lowest paid) and am now negotiating with the other two to see who offers the best deal with the most stability. And I am NOT stopping the search. Learned that lesson the hard way when a job that I really should have gotten didn't happen. I had stopped looking while interviewing with them. Turns out they were not happy with one of the people they ended up hiring and they are one of the companies that offered me a position last week. The other piece of advice I'd give is be willing to move and work your network. And, this might sound stupid but find out what the buzzwords are in your line of business and use them liberally in your interview. In journalism (my line of biz), it's "optimization" which just shows how little the people doing the hiring know about SEO and how it changes all the time. Might be similar in your line of business.

Dear Oleg , I believe that may be why employers are reluctant to hire they want to hire someone who they know they can rely on and trust to stay with their company. My only suggestion is to keep trying and I think with your experience you will find a company for you . Hope this helps Good luck Noreen

Today's job market is radically different from even 5 years ago. We all need to learn how to navigate this new reality. The old is new again: referrals trump recruiters any day. My neighbor is nearly 80 and is as busy as he has ever been - almost exclusively from referrals.

Same here .all this agency's and websites no helping at all .I been looking for work the last 5 months I had 5 interviews but no call back ..this is ridicules.

I totally feel your pain. I have been in the mortgage industry in operations. I have worked approx. 20 years. I have never had to look this much for a job ....I have not been able to figure it out. Very frustrating.

No I believe your alright about short term gigs and outside the united states your are right but look at allbof the situations and see if there maybe somewhere you may improve in examples are resume how your wording is!!! Who is possibly looking at you !!!! Try looking at everything except just those two areas because generally speaking if you are only looking at those parts you are to focused and missing out on the thing that is right in front of you!!! To many people are afraid to just come out and ask a pertaintual employer is there something I maybe doing wrong!!! I'm not why for there input could be the most important thing could help!!!! An if when an employer ask do you have a question don't close up!!! Say to him/her generally speaking is there anything I am possibly doing wrong is saying that I am not working or getting hired perminitly!!! That constructive critisume may leave a taste you may not like but in the end you'll be greatfully for you may land a dream job most people would die for!!!! Figuritivly speaking!!! And when you do send that person a thank you note of how greatfully you are of there complete honesty!!! Hope that helped your friend Thomas fellow jobcaser!!!!

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Crikey yes I've read the posts an I'll add my ten penneth worth here yes you have been doing short term contracts so yes follow the recommendation and add to those areas the word contract or bundle them up as contracts from beginning date to ending date they way I do it is to say ok I did yay amount of short contracts from Jan 2015 through to April 2015 then I took on a 6 month contract then finished the year from September through to December with a few more short term contracts so recruiters know I am a contractor and that I have been consistently active throughout the year. thats about it really I'm sure you emphasise your strengths might be a good idea to design your resume as an info graphic so that the skill set is highlighted more so than the contract lengths just a thought and good luck the market is buoyant and is picking up target startups that should get you a lengthier contract

I know the feeling I've been in and out of temp jobs since April of last year nothing at all long lasting and I definitely have the 20 years of experience to work in clerical. Now days I've found staffing agencies if they do place you at all throw you basically to the wolves to these companies that have pretty much a revolving door policy where you really have no shot other than the short time you're there. To make matters worse they pay the equivalent to as if you'd never worked in the field at all now days making you really struggle just to get barely get by week to week before pay comes and your broke again repeating the process. Then suddenly the job ends and you're wondering if there's gunna be an ability to make it to next week because there was never a chance to save a penny at the job you had before when you had it and you wait desperately for the call from another handful of agencies you have to go back to work as your pumping 30 or more resumes out. And what do you have to do go back to these staffing agencies cause there's just so limited of companies that like direct hires anymore so its rather a vicious cycle especially when that on and off history shows up on your resume. I don't understand how its come to this when work was never this hard to find before in clerical ever especially if you got the expertise. And with the pay these companies even use to think you can make it... forget about it unless your fresh outta high school and don't need a wage that can support a family.