I am in the eight month of an 11-month contract with a large municipal government. Our team is essentially an internal consulting group that works with various branches helping them write business cases and deal with various other corporate requirements. I was placed with the most challenging branch our team supports because the branch manager is known as a hard case The team went through four or five people in the role in the year prior to my arrival. I can work with the branch manager because as long as he gets results in a timely manner he is happy. I have kept him happy.
My team got a new temporary director and supervisor (a former colleague) a few months ago. The temporary director re-wrote the job requirements before my position was posted as permanent. I had the interview a couple weeks ago and found out today I didn't get the permanent role.In my new director's view it's "not fair" to all applicants to consider an incumbents experience in the role. I wasn't explicit and detailed enough about my experiences in projects I worked on for the director and supervisor. I mistakenly thought they could include their knowledge of the work I had done when considering my candidacy.
Therefore, I didn't get the role because I didn't give the best interview of all the candidates. I was too succinct in my answers to the interview questions and needed to be more expansive. This obviously frustrates me personally because I have been doing the job well and keeping this difficult to work with branch manager happy.
My supervisor shares my frustration and told me that he started as a temp and didn't get his first temp role posted as a permanent when he interviewed for the permanent role. It also frustrates me as a taxpayer. I was dead weight for the first three months until I learned the role. Instead of keeping an incumbent in the role who a) can work with the branch manager thus reducing the likelihood for turnover and b) saving the higher training costs of a replacement this temporary director went with what I see as a foolish fallback to fairness without regard to the costs to the taxpayer.
A few questions: Should I even mention not getting the permanent role in future interviews?
If I do talk about not getting the permanent role how should I frame it?
Is it better to use the three months I have left to try and find something in the city or should I look external? (Of course I'll do both, just looking for opinions on where to focus my time.)
Thanks for reading!
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