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If you are in need of work and you are turning to temping in New York, you have to just start registering with temp agencies until you find some that give you work.
There is no real way to know which agencies will give you work and which ones won't. I once registered with this agency at about 1:00 pm and I was convinced that I would never hear from them. The agency called me at 4:00 pm that day asking me if I could work THAT night.
If the agency forces you to go through very elaborate registration rituals, they either don't have any work or they don't like you, for one reason or another. Sometimes it is advisable to keep calling into an agency asking if there is work available, but in general, if they are not calling YOU, you need to keep registering with more agencies until you find ones that do call you. Knowledge of Microsoft Office is a required basic skill, but if an agency really needs people they will train you in whatever it takes to send you out on jobs. |
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Wall Street Services
My general rule is not to slam agencies that I personally have had bad experiences with. All Temp agencies are obviously giving somebody work or they would not be in business.
I have to make an exception to this rule for Wall Street Services.
Given that I have a BS in Engineering, I am going to assume that I score higher on math tests than liberal arts majors. When I tried to regiser with Wall Street Services for word processing work, I was told by a Wall Street Services' Carin Cohn that my score on their math test was too low for me to work for them.
The Wall Street Services Counselor who told me that my math score was too low gave me this special business card Wall Street Services created to give to rejected applicants.
The fact that these people have special business card for rejected applicants indicates to me that these people are in the business of wasting a lot of people's time.
Spending a day registering with a temp agency is a day that we are not making money.
Wall Street Services is obviously looking for very specific types of people. So, maybe before you go to their office to register and lose a day of work, you might want to ask them what type of people they like.
There are just too many agencies in Manhattan and too much work to bother with Wall Street Services.
Wall Street Services' Business Card Given To Rejected Applicants |
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