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HELP!! job offers! HOW IS IT LIKE TO WORK FOR A STAFFING COMPANY? |
Hi, I got an offer to work 6 months for a staffing company names RANDSTAD. Now the positive thing is that the billing company I will be work for has a good reputation and it is minimum commute. The down side is I've heard horrible experience with staffing company like they will treat you bad after you sign the contract, higher tax at the year end and the billing company will used temps like a work machine, or you will have difficulty being integrated with the permanent workers there. This is not my only option and I can also chose to work at another company which is also nice, permanent, but 1h commute. I know people will find choice 2 much better, but I hate driving and I don't have difficulty to find another permanent job after the temp is over. However, if these stories about staffing, temp jobs are true, I will definitely drive 2hs everyday to get my bread. Thanks! I have worked with several different temp companies in the past and I have never once had a problem with them. Can't say that I have worked for Randstad but I have worked for Adecco and Kelly Services. From experience I have had nothing but good things to say about them. The only downside that I have had has been with the short term assignements. It is hard to integrate yourself with a company when you know you are only going to be there for a few weeks. Long term assignments are so much better. Most employees don't care if you're a temp or not as long as you get the job done. If you do a good enough job where you are placed a lot of times they will offer you a permanent position which you actually have to run by the temp agency first before you accept which is the norm since I guess the temp agency doesn't want you running out on them. Overall a temp agency I have found is one of the best tools to get in the door in some major corporations that hire infrequently. Source(s): ex career counselor THIS DEPENDS ON YOUR GOALS AND WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCES. IF YOU HAVE VERY NICE CREDENTIALS AND /OR EXPERIENCES YOU CAN TRY EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES WHICH CAN LAND YOU A GOOD JOB. REMEMBER NEVER TO LIE ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES AND OR / EDUCATION. SOONER OR LATER THE TRUTH IS BOUND TO COME OUT. LET ME GO BACK TO YOUR ORIGINAL QUESTION. WORKING WITH A TEMP AGENCY HAS A PLUS POINT: YOU CAN WORK IN A COMPANY THAT IS FISHING FOR GOOD EMPLOYEES. NOW-A DAYS, BIG CORPORATIONS HIRE THRU TEMP AGENCY AND IF AND WHEN OPPORTUNITY ARISES THEY WILL BE WILLING TO OFFER A COMPANY JOB. OF COURSE, THERE IS A DOWN SIDE TO WORKING FOR A TEMP AGENCY TOO. IT WILL BE ADVISABLE TO CHECK THE PREVIOUS EMPLOYEES WHO WORKED FOR THE SAME COMPANY BEFORE SIGNING ANY PAPERS. BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER IS : " WORK HONESTLY WITH A GOD OVER YOUR HEAD ." TRUST HIM / HER AND YOU CANNOT GO WRONG. GOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I work internally for a staffing firm. And yes we have had some situations occur where the temporary workers are treated differently in a light industrial type of environment. But we have had no complaints from our administrative employees. A lot of larger companies go through agencies now a days because they find it easier to do business that way only because the agency deals with everything. If a person does well while on assignment the client generally rolls them over on to their payroll after the 3 or 6 month term. It all depends on if they have the need and how good of a worker you are. See that depends....I actually worked for Randstad and it got me into the permanent position I am with now. I started working a part time gig at DHL Global Forwarding (Freight Forwarders - International) and then a month and a half later I was asked if I would like to join the company. Of course I said yes. Now it's been 8 months I've had a dollar raise and full benefits. But.......I sent my fiance through Randstad and they have been giving him nothing but the runaround for the past 2 months.....So with a temp agency its really a 50/50 chance. Do you live on your own? Do you pay the bills? I say this b/c if you do I would stay away from Temp Agencies b/c like I said it's 50/50 but If you still live with your parents or your spouse makes it pretty well without an income from you then I say take the chance you could be the lucky 50% like me. Randstand isn't a very good staffing agency because they had a branch in San Francisco, but they closed that location. Either they weren't getting the clients or they weren't getting the temps. I say get the permanent job. If you put your job search and heavily rely on staffing agency to place you, you will get a position you might not like. I did that and I ended up working in a part time position which I am not happy with. I really needed full time, but the staffing agency never found me anything. So, I have to go back to school , earn a bachelor's and put my degree to use. So, if you are that marketable, then continue interviewing until you land a position you love. Good luck. I did agency work for a while before I had kids, It was overall really great. I think a lot depends on the agency you are working for, I don't know anything about Ranstad. I found that there wasn't a lot of orienting when you went to a new place, you pretty much had to figure out things on your own.....but that wasn't every place. Some of the places were really great, others weren't. In the places that weren't so great, the regular employees weren't really friendly, they didn't try to make you feel like you fit in, you were agency staff and they made it known you weren't one of them. But it's work, you do your job and go home. |
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