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HAs anybody here ever used a temp agency? I used to use them a lot and have recently gone back to using them. I hate it. IT is so temporary. I was just working on a temp assignment, and it ended abruptly.

Thank God that the job where I applied to work, thru my school's career center had just called me for an interview. IT's a clerky job in an HR department in a Defense Contract Auditing company. The requirement is that I have to be enrolled in college at least part-time. (and I am). This interview is WEdnesday. I don't ever want to go back to temping. It is so awful when the assignement ends. Even though this is what temping is, it is always such a shock to be out of work suddenly.

AFter my assignment ended, I drove over to another agency nearby and tested with them on computers and typing skills. The girl at the office said I had really good test scores. So maybe they will find something for a couple of days until my Wednesday interview.

Saffron wrote: HAs anybody here ever used a temp agency? I used to use them a lot and have recently gone back to using them. I hate it. IT is so temporary. I was just working on a temp assignment, and it ended abruptly.

Thank God that the job where I applied to work, thru my school's career center had just called me for an interview. IT's a clerky job in an HR department in a Defense Contract Auditing company. The requirement is that I have to be enrolled in college at least part-time. (and I am). This interview is WEdnesday. I don't ever want to go back to temping. It is so awful when the assignement ends. Even though this is what temping is, it is always such a shock to be out of work suddenly.

AFter my assignment ended, I drove over to another agency nearby and tested with them on computers and typing skills. The girl at the office said I had really good test scores. So maybe they will find something for a couple of days until my Wednesday interview.


I have used them as well and don't like them, but they are a good thing for the interim even if it means you work 4-6 jobs in a month. Some can lead to permanant but then again that is here and unemployment is an all time record low so any able body is something everyone wants.

I had to sign up with ANYTHING I could get, one year. It was a horrible time to be unemployed. I applied to AccounTemps/Robert Half and they were excellent to me.. they kept in touch.. really went the extra mile to serve both their employees and their clients... I had temp jobs enough to NOT starve... and eventually was hired here at the perfect job.

Good luck and God bless.

I was temping for about 4 years, and was registered with 3 agencies, I stipulated what kind of work I wanted and how much I was worth and would accept nothing less even though they tried, It worked quite well with only about two weeks out of work, one of the jobs I had was a years contract which is better than a permanent job because your guaranteed either that year working or the pay to the end of the year, it turned out that I worked 2 years.

Don't forget all the experience you can get in the different types of businesses, it works well when you do apply for a permanent job.

I would do it again.

I'm probably in a different ball game to you other posters. I have worked on a 'temporary' basis since 1986. I love it. For me, there is no such thing as job security anyway. In the last ten years, I have seen many companies that I have worked for lay off their workers and take on 'sub-contractors'. The workers hate it. The believe in job security and find it hard to adapt.

But, over the years, I have been to different places, I have met many people and new faces, I have learnt different ways of achieving a task.

Now, if I'm in a place for longer than a month, I get itchy feet and want to move on, something I have to resist because I have to fulfill a contract.

In all these years, I have rarely been out of work unless I chose to take some time out.

Well...I used to not mind temping. But it just seems that it is too unstable for me now, since I have gotten older. When i was in my 20's and even 30's I didn't mind changing jobs. But now it just bothers me too much. And the client can always really ruin my ego by coming up with any kind of excuse when they want to let you go.

An assigment I was on that ended today was a good example. The manager of the company said that my writing was too hard to read. Hmmmmm. Then I found out from her that she did not have the time to train me as the other woman who was training me went to Las Vegas for 2 days. That is the story she told me. But she told the guy at the agency a completely different story.....that she thought I had sloppy printing. Jeeze, maybe they should get computers. I also had to use a typewriter. What or who used or owns typewriters any more? They were like from the old school.

Well, I got an interview lined up for this Wednesday for a job that I want I found through my school's career placement office. IT's for an HR clerical p-t position and they work around my school hours. They said I must be in school at least 6 units to work there. So I will stay in college. It's a defense contract auditor company. They audit Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and the other aerospace companies. So everone wish me luck that I get that job and do good on the interview. Please!

Saffron wrote: So everone wish me luck that I get that job and do good on the interview. Please!Post the actual time you'll be in the interview... (and your time zone) so we can all give you "good vibe" at the same time.

SweetDarlin wrote: Post the actual time you'll be in the interview... (and your time zone) so we can all give you "good vibe" at the same time.
Oh thanks! I am in the PAcific time zone. The interview is this Wednesday at 10 a.m.

I rreally want this job.

Saffron wrote: Well...I used to not mind temping. But it just seems that it is too unstable for me now, since I have gotten older. When i was in my 20's and even 30's I didn't mind changing jobs. But now it just bothers me too much. And the client can always really ruin my ego by coming up with any kind of excuse when they want to let you go.



An assigment I was on that ended today was a good example. The manager of the company said that my writing was too hard to read. Hmmmmm. Then I found out from her that she did not have the time to train me as the other woman who was training me went to Las Vegas for 2 days. That is the story she told me. But she told the guy at the agency a completely different story.....that she thought I had sloppy printing. Jeeze, maybe they should get computers. I also had to use a typewriter. What or who used or owns typewriters any more? They were like from the old school.



Well, I got an interview lined up for this Wednesday for a job that I want I found through my school's career placement office. IT's for an HR clerical p-t position and they work around my school hours. They said I must be in school at least 6 units to work there. So I will stay in college. It's a defense contract auditor company. They audit Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and the other aerospace companies. So everone wish me luck that I get that job and do good on the interview. Please!


In the past, there was real, embarrasment at the end of a contract on the part of the super. Now it's generally old hat. I've done my part and it's time to (eagerly) move on. Then I get called back. It's always good to see the old faces again... at least for a short while.

Best of luck with your interview, Saff.