I’m interviewing for two positions:

1. Contract group copy supervisor role that starts mid November and ends late December.

2. A full-time ACD role.

No offers yet, but I’m thinking of taking the contract role for now and seeing if full-time role will let me start when the contract ends, but not sure how feasible that is.

Any advice would be great! Thank you :)

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Worth asking. The worst you'll hear is a "no".

Not a lot of work gets done now until end of year, so I could see them being okay with a Jan 1st start date.

Unless they're expecting the person to onboard while it's slow then ramp up in the new year with new projects.

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Worth asking, maybe offer to onboard and sign an NDA so you can familiarize yourself with a few briefs/client before you start so you can really hit the ground running in January. Might help to provide a solution if they were counting on you using the slower time to onboard.

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Smart!

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How big is the “group” you will be overseeing?

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Ehhh I wouldn’t say anything until there’s an offer and you start discussing start date. These things can take waaaay longer than you think. And disappear

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You can always prematurely leave a “contract” gig. That’s one of the few perks of freelance.

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Good point!

Agree with CD2. But also, if you get the FT offer, I’d be surprised if they had you start before the first of the year anyway. The FT hiring process has been super slow lately and I doubt they’d have you start right before the holidays.

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