Staffing Agencies
The new trend in employment recently has been staffing agencies. They’ve managed to come a long way and have managed to get many of the unemployed employed.
A few months ago I decided to head over to a staffing agency to see what they were all about. I needed work and they were offering me a pretty good position along with a not so bad pay. Well I come to find that you will be getting from $3-5 off the hourly pay of what you would get if you were hired permanently by the company you’re sent to. The bright side of this is that depending on the agency you go to, after 60-90 days you’re a permanent employee of where you were temping and you’re receiving that extra hourly pay as well as benefits, if applicable.
Staffing agencies are great step in the door for those who are having trouble finding permanent work. So try not to stress the deducted hourly pay and the no benefits issue, eventually it will pay off. Remember, we must all pay our dues.
This is a good first impression of temporary agency work. Actually, temporary agencies have existed for a very long time. A very young Joan Crawford played the part of a temporary secretary in Germany in a 1930s movie where she took her manual typewriter to the business man's hotel room in order to type his correspondence. Things have changed a lot since then.
The way the agency makes money is to charge their client, the business in need of short-term help a marked-up fee. This covers the agency's overhead and some profit for the intermediary work they do.
Temp agencies are an excellent means of learning about various companies and types of work while also gaining increased knowledge and experience. The work is a bit sporadic. But under certain conditions, it is possible to sustain oneself via this type of work until the right situation is worked out.
For more information about temporary work, please see Wikipedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_work