Re: Day

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

--- Gail Prime One <http://www.sbcglobal.net/~prime_one> wrote:
> QA has called me back in for next week, so that's out. If it
> goes as before, they'll be stringing me along for a while, so no guarantees
> when I'll next be free during the week.

Wednesday is an interview for me.  Also, I may be doing work for the Programmer
Coop (!) next week.  I could probably schedule anything around that, 'though.

> I talked to OfficeTeam (Division of Robert Half that specializes in
> Administrative stuff) this afternoon. I have been trying to get together
> with them for a while, to get started on some temporary admin work. The two
> women I talked to there both said the same thing. You have to have direct
> experience before they'll place you. That is, you had to have been an
> Administrative Assistant in your last job before they'll place you in a
> temporary Admin Assist position. Is that crazy or what?!? They still test
> you even if you were an Admin Assist in your last job, so I don't see why
> they can't just test to see if you have the computer office skills you say
> you do. :-(

Yeah, that is ridiculous.  But, I think it also depends on the temp agency,
too, 'cause Elaine got temp work as a admin assist when her last job was a Unix
Systems Administrator.  She had to rework her resume, 'though.

> The last woman I talked to said maybe I could get some temporary work
> somewhere else, and then come back to them when I had the experience. I told
> her the chances were absolutely nil that I would go and get experience just
> so I could come back and work a temporary job for them!

Yeah.  But, if you could get local temp work not through Robert Half, you'd
probably be just as [un]happy.  http://bayjobs.com has a big list of temp
agencies, I think.  You might try that.