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1. Challenges In
Leaving a Firm
For Contracting

2. Breaking Away From Your Firm
When you’re an employee
of a consulting firm and
you’re thinking about
getting into contracting,
one of the challenges
you’ll face is being able to
break away from that firm
in a smooth manner.

3. The Majority of Consultants
Most people who I talk to don’t want to leave a consulting firm in the
middle of a project. Over the course of the contract, they build a
relationship with the client and a personal investment in the project’s
success.

4. What a Health IT consultant will inevitably tell me is . . .
“I want to finish this project
and look for a new project as
soon as this project is
completed.”

5. What they don’t realize is that,
although they’re doing the right
thing for their current project,
they’re making things difficult on
themselves if they don’t tell their
employer consulting firm that
they’re leaving after the project’s
completion.

6. Trouble With Transitioning
So, let’s say John is an employee of a
consulting firm. Unaware of John’s decision
to leave after his current project, the
consulting firm begins to find a new project
for John to start after his current one ends.
What this means is that John’s profile may
begin to be submitted to other clients,
unbeknownst to him, anywhere from 30 to
60 days before his contract ends.

7. There’s really no reason for the firm to inform John each time his
profile is sent out, because he’s their employee and this is how things
generally work.
However, each time John’s profile is sent out under the representation
of this current firm, it will only create one fewer place that John can be
presented by another firm on a contract basis.
The consulting firm obviously does this to increase the chances of
having another project for John, thus avoiding having to pay for
unnecessary bench time.

8. This leaves only two options for John:
1. Leave in the middle of a 2. Inform his consulting
project, when a new ideal
contract opportunity is
presented.
firm 60 days prior to his
project’s completion date
that he’ll be leaving the firm
once the project is
completed.

9. There are, of course, a variety of other scenarios that can arise, which
can be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, and no two situations ever
seem to be similar.
The point of this presentation is to call attention to the fact that some
thought must be given ahead of time to making this transition as smooth
as possible for all parties involved.

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