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Difficult conversation · Opening with the hard message

A client ends a contractor's assignment effective Friday with no reason given. As their agency recruiter, walk me through the call where you tell the contractor.

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I'd call the same day I hear — a contractor finding out from a badge that stops working is the failure mode — and lead with it: 'The client has ended your assignment, effective Friday.…

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