Temping Positions Should Enhance Your Skills
Temping used to be looked at as s top gap type job. You were waiting to go to University or working your way through college, well you would temp. But these days the whole philosophy about temping has changed significantly and many people choose temping as a longer term prospect. But instead of treating temping as a stop gap, they actually use temping to enhance their skills.
With each position taken, a different set of skills are picked up so that after a few years temping the person actually has a very robust CV, which has been greatly enhanced by the variety of places that they have worked and the kinds of experiences that they have had.
Many recruitment agency advisers are also of the opinion that treating temping as a potentially long-term career is actually of benefit. Many employers, particularly in some of the ‘youth driven’ employment fields especially PR, some aspects of the media etc do not want to recruit someone who has worked for the same firm for 10 years, doing the same job, working with the same people and is potentially terrified of change. No, they would prefer to employ someone who has worked in different settings, with different people, who positively embraces change and new working practices and is at home in a new environment.
But for you to take advantage of the boost that temping can give your career, it is important that you expand your comfort zone, on a regular basis and take on new skills, new responsibilities and learn new working practices. That way you demonstrate that you are very much someone who is far from stagnant but keen to move onwards and upwards and embrace a rewarding career. So keep pushing the boundaries of your comfort zone and enjoy the difference it makes to your CV!