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At 3M, contract workers have value but little job security
At 3M, contract workers have value but little job security - TwinCities.com
Roger Erickson, who worked as a reliability engineer in the same 3M division with Pedrow, also was hired as a contract worker in 2004, he said. Erickson does have a four-year degree and previously had worked for Seagate Technology in Oklahoma City, where he did high-tech testing of computer disc drives.
He was let go once while he was at 3M and then brought back, and finally laid off in 2008 or 2009, as the recession hit.
Erickson, now 64, said, "The question would come up to management, 'We want to be full-time, can we do it?'" But the answer was that the company wasn't hiring. Meantime, the positions that did get filled were younger people, also with college degrees.
Though the market has improved in recent years, getting hired for IT jobs still can be tricky, he said. Some companies will say "we have a 17-item job description. If you don't have at least 14 of those, we won't hire you," DeBettignies said. "And many companies are still trying to pay people what they were paying during the recession."
At 3M, contract workers have value but little job security - TwinCities.com
Roger Erickson, who worked as a reliability engineer in the same 3M division with Pedrow, also was hired as a contract worker in 2004, he said. Erickson does have a four-year degree and previously had worked for Seagate Technology in Oklahoma City, where he did high-tech testing of computer disc drives.
He was let go once while he was at 3M and then brought back, and finally laid off in 2008 or 2009, as the recession hit.
Erickson, now 64, said, "The question would come up to management, 'We want to be full-time, can we do it?'" But the answer was that the company wasn't hiring. Meantime, the positions that did get filled were younger people, also with college degrees.
Though the market has improved in recent years, getting hired for IT jobs still can be tricky, he said. Some companies will say "we have a 17-item job description. If you don't have at least 14 of those, we won't hire you," DeBettignies said. "And many companies are still trying to pay people what they were paying during the recession."
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened."
--Alexander Graham Bell,
American inventor
--Alexander Graham Bell,
American inventor
