[mikester]

Anyone done this? I have a position I am mildly keen on but it is 'contract to hire'.

Crap.

I'm a little wary of it and had I known it was contract to hire prior to the phone interview I would not have even interviewed for it. I'm just starting my job hunt and looking for perm positions, when I get desperate then the contract to hire will look better.

My current employer is studying out sourcing my position - I appreciate their honesty but they aren't offering much useful compensation with regards to retention until they decide and then execute. They have a history of low balling this sort of thing...

So I put a couple of feelers out there and ended up with this phone interview, it sounds promising. Commute isn't too bad (not good but not bad) and there isn't any on-call (haven't had that in a while). It seems like a lot of IT positions these days are all 'contract to hire' - what's the brain trust say?