Has any one started at a Temp. service and moved up........?

Question

to a fine career where you started? Are Temp. service as bad as everyone seems to believe?

Answer 1

I've done this. My temp assignment led to a 10 year job. Try a small local temp agency if one is available. The bigger national ones just are looking for bodies (drones). My experience is the smaller ones are looking for the right person for the right position if they can. Good luck.

Answer 2

No they aren't all bad. It depends on what YOU want to believe. I met someone at my previous place of employment and that person ,by the time I came on board to the company, she was already a permanent staff member. She told me that she started working as a temp and the Federal Reserve Bank hired her agency (the one that she registered with) before they switched to Remedy. But before the Bank made the switch of agencies, she was already hired. So, it depends if you know how to interview and sell yourself to go to round 2. If you don't have any connections to find the "insider scoop" to get hired and don't know how to sell yourself, then this is the only way to go. I am a temp myself and sometimes they are "bad" because they put you on the waiting list and sometimes they find me a job then they yanked it away because it was a mismatch. That is the only bad part which is the waiting. I DON'T KNOW HOW to beat out all those other applicants and I don't have that many connections to get the "inside scoop" of companies that want to hire my skill level which is clerical. so I would register for a whole bunch of agencies to get work. I always update my availability weekly (unless I am working with one agency that found me work) that's when I tell the others I would be busy for a certain period of time and call at a later date. Sometimes a job comes in that is mindless, but what else can you do with a very high economy? If you don't take the mindless job, then they won't find you something long term whatever it is that you are seeking.