When I got out of contracting, and later after 2008 business failure, I lost count of interviews that went thus:
"You're perfect for the role", "You have just the skills we need", "you're by far the best of those interviewed"
but by email later, sometimes directly
"we think you'll get bored", "we think you'll leave after six months" etc
(Sometimes, "we think you're a bit overqualified")
For sanity's sake I went on a few contract interviews, and usually got an offer.
My experience was that employers are utterly terrified of someone who's got some entrepreneurial or business history. Sure the money was less, but there many reasons to want to go back to employment.
As they didn't like it, I always wondered why so many invited me to interview when the 5 years of successful business and 4 years of contracting was very clear to see on my resume.
"You're perfect for the role", "You have just the skills we need", "you're by far the best of those interviewed"
but by email later, sometimes directly
"we think you'll get bored", "we think you'll leave after six months" etc
(Sometimes, "we think you're a bit overqualified")
For sanity's sake I went on a few contract interviews, and usually got an offer.
My experience was that employers are utterly terrified of someone who's got some entrepreneurial or business history. Sure the money was less, but there many reasons to want to go back to employment.
As they didn't like it, I always wondered why so many invited me to interview when the 5 years of successful business and 4 years of contracting was very clear to see on my resume.