Why is it employers judge your "worth" by what you did for your last job.?

Question

I have had to take jobs for the last two years that would not be my preference but I got myself into a situatiuon where I had rent to pay and had to take what ever I could get which was warehouse work
working with people that have no college at all. Now it seems like these temp services won't even consider me for something that involves computer skills and keep giving me warehouse assignments when I have 4 years as an assistant mngr experience and can type very fast. It just seems like they are Blackballing me.

Answer 1

Leave the temp agency. If you knew how much they were making for your hard work, you'd want to quit anyway.

As an employer, I match skills to position and attitude to an office fit. If they are all in line, then I hire.

Line up some interviews that fit in line with your computer and keyboard skills, and when they ask about the warehouse work, tell them that you needed money and wanted to work for it, and that they put you on those assignments because you were willing to work hard to make money.

Any prospective employer that you want to work for will respect that.

Answer 2

Why work for them then? Just apply for a real job. The temp services are likley sending you because it is hard to find temps that can do warehouse work.