When you are a student, you will certainly be cash strapped, so the best way of making some serious money is to look for work in the holidays, whether at Christmas, the long summer vacation or even at times when companies are very short staffed, for example at half term.

Temporary jobs can also be good for your CV. For example, if you are studying law, then why not try to get a job working in a legal practice. OK you may just be answering the phone, doing the photocopying etc but it shows that you are keen and willing to turn your hand to different types of work.

But your temporary job doesn’t have to be job related. You can try lots of different types of jobs to learn more about the kind of environment you fit into or you want to work in. You may learn more about yourself and what you are good at, or what you don’t like about being employed.

You can also use a temping position to get a reference. All you have to do is to be flexible, adaptable, work hard and make sure that you do whatever job to the best of your ability.  Then you can ask your recruitment agency or the company itself for a reference. Since many people don’t have good references, this could make all the difference in the cut-throat world that is the field of employment currently.

So don’t look down your nose at temping jobs: they can assist and boost both your career and your CV and along the way you may even meet people who are great company and who can teach you skills and equip you with experience that money simply cannot buy. And at the end of it, you get a pretty decent salary, so what have you got to lose?

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In the ‘olden days’ students used to use their summer holidays for travelling, having fun and generally just being lazy. But those days have gone now and many students find that the only way they can afford to continue with their studies is to work during the holidays. But what do you do?

Well the best thing to do is to sign up with a recruitment agency and try to secure a good position. There are some jobs, for example in shops or bars/cafes that may be advertised in the local papers, but many office and secretarial positions are only sent to a recruitment agency, since they know that the agency will have people to do those jobs.

So if you go to an agency, you have so many more options than you would do if you just look in the local paper. It is a lot easier to get a reasonably well paid temping job with an agency than through the papers.

You can also find quite varied positions: so you could find work as a carer, in a hospital, in a nursing home, in an office, or vets and so on. Some agencies may have particularly good links with local employers and so they can attract the best jobs, which is another good reason for choosing them.

Finding work these days is hard for everyone and since unemployment is quite high, many people who want full time permanent employment will actually start looking at any job, even a temporary one. So beat off the competition and go to an agency: they will save you time, get you the most interesting jobs and if you keep a good relationship with them, you can get work again in the future. So whilst all your friends are out doing hard manual labour or cleaning jobs, you can pick up some valuable work experience in an office or some other location that will actually make your CV stronger. How cool is that?

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Temping is a great way of trying out different types of positions, meeting lots of new people and generally testing your toes in the ocean of employment. But some people dismiss it and say that if you temp for too long it will hold your career back and you will be viewed as someone who cannot keep down a permanent position. But do not listen to this kind of old-fashioned view. You are certainly worth more than that and you should be proud of temping. After all it demonstrates that you can work in different kinds of settings, that you are flexible and that you are adaptable to change. These are very valuable skills and should not be underestimated.

Instead what you need to do is to add these skills to your CV, actively demonstrate that you are flexible, that you embrace change (many an employer would love to hear this) and that you are very adaptable.
So make sure that you adapt your CV so that it really displays the wealth of skills that you have picked up.

You should also use temping as a means of boosting your career. Try to secure positions that have a little bit more responsibility each time that you make a change and get a new temping position. Then you can use the experience to demonstrate that you are constantly acquiring new skills and putting these into use. It may also be helpful to talk this through with someone at your recruitment agency and explain your tactics, so that they can help you to secure new positions that fit your criteria.

So by using temping as a way of improving your skill set, you really can prove that there is life after temping and that it can be a rewarding process!

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