Hi all,
I switched to corporate from education in 2021 on a contract first with a big movie company, which I then jumped to GameStop as a PM, before being laid off in July of 2022 after 8 months. I took a contract Project Manager role that started in early September and was just informed by my supervisor that my contract that expires in March may not be extended and she can't guarantee permanent conversion for me. The reasoning is as follows:
- We have a new ceo
- We are heavily exposed to big tech companies contracts
- We had a hiring freeze before the new ceo (though my supervisor did ask for more headcount)
- She has to give permanent employees work before contractors
She reiterated she absolutely wants to keep me and the company has ME (a contractor) training permanent employee PMs on how to be better PMs.
However, i'm down about the news. My work is always used as an example for others and I am always asked to lead meetings. They converted the other PM contractor because she lives in the bay area (80% of our revenue is bay area big tech) and now i'm stuck here having to look again.
Does anyone have any suggestions here? I'm worried that short job stints will look bad. I have multiple career coaches I work with and they all told me i'll be fine, but i'm really starting to get nervous.
I'm appreciative my supervisor gave me a month and a half heads up, but still obviously disappointed.