Temping Jobs

Some people try being a temp and then move into a permanent position or they go back to university or have children and take a career break, but others actually never stop temping and wouldn’t have it any other way!

Temping is a great way of meeting new colleagues. You no longer have to worry about what the gossips are saying in the office or whether you ‘fit in’ with the culture and the environment. If you feel you don’t, you just move on and what is more, you know that it isn’t permanent, so you tend to find it easier just to blend in, safe in the knowledge that in a couple of months you will be elsewhere.

Some people find it hard to think about temping for the whole of a career. They think that staying in the same office for a long time, helps them to make friends with colleagues and form trusting friendships. But the reality is that if you ‘click’ with someone and they are going to be your friend, then they will be so, even after you leave, so don’t stay stuck in the same job because of the people there. Who knows in your next position, the staff team could even be better?

Many recruitment agencies are now reporting that a lot of temps are choosing the flexibility of temping over being tied to a permanent position and since these days, no job is guaranteed for life, temping is no longer a career filler, but can be considered a serious career. It shows that you have drive, flexibility, can get on well with people and can adapt to different situations, obviously very quickly: these are skills that employers welcome and any recruitment agency will confirm this. So instead of thinking just like everyone else, why not think a little bit laterally about your career and how temping may be right up your street!

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When faced with a return to work after a period of staying at home with your children, or if you are stuck in a dead end job, it can seem daunting to think about taking on a new permanent role anywhere. After all, how do you know that you will like it?  You may find that it is a case of being worse than your previous position or if you are a working mother, you could actually find that the hours do not actually suit your childcare arrangements. So what do you do? Well you temp, that’s what you do!

It really is tempting to go temping? You get really flexible working arrangements, you don’t have to worry about office politics, or being the boss’s favourite, or even having to take on responsibilities that you aren’t paid for. No, you can just smile and say ‘I’m a temp’ and you will find that all the things that used to get you down about your old job simply melt away and if you don’t like the position that you are offered, then you try another one!

Temping is a great way of working in different environments with no commitment, you also get some great rates of pay. You wont even have to worry about going through the recruitment process, you just turn up, learn the rope, then move on again, or stay if your skills are required and you want to stay on.

There are lots of different recruitment agencies to help get you started as a temp and you should look on it as a real opportunity to have flexibility in your career. Yes it is easy to sit and be stuck in the same old office job, but temping will help you readily adapt to different working environments and really sharpen up your inter-personal skills, no matter how good you think they are already. So what are you waiting for, give in to temptation and start temping!

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