John, Your Quux company should not send your resume and propose you to any company without your approval. In addition, normally, Quux should ask if you have been submitted to anyone and who those companies are so they don't send your stuff to them. In my experience as an independent contractor the above seems to be the rule. Your Quux company operates in a non-standard manner. Matt. "John J. Trammell" wrote: > > Hello LUGgers: > > I'm a newbie in the job search arena, and could use some advice > on how to avoid a certain situation in the future. > > Say, hypothetically speaking, that you have a friend that just > got a new job at company Foo via job-finding company Quux (rhymes > with "sucks", as in "rat bastard fuckers die die die") Jobfinders > Inc. > > This friend encourages you to apply for another position that's > open at Foo; you do this, and in addition you ask the boys at Quux > to see if they can locate some position for you. > > You find yourself fucked, because what does Quux do but send your > resume off to Foo? Now Foo wants to hire you, but Quux says that > Foo owes them some sort of finder's fee, even though you have a > contact of your own at Foo, and really didn't get anything from > Quux. Foo won't hire you because this fee is exorbitant, and > why the hell should Quux get dime one anyhow? > > So how do other people manage this situation? My thought is that > I should have made some agreement with Quux from the beginning that > they had to have my permission to send my resume to Foo; once this > was done, Foo was "theirs" and if they found a job there, they were > entitled to the fee. This would leave me free to search on my own > at Bar and Baz, Inc. > > Any other ways out of this? > > Regards, > J > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Matthew Thoren, MTT Computer Consulting Inc. 2633 Fremont Ave. North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 mthoren at mttcc.com, http://www.mttcc.com Contract/Hourly Programming and System Administrative Services. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mthoren.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 305 bytes Desc: Card for Matt Thoren Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20001201/1882aa24/mthoren.vcf