If you are a student who has never worked, but you want to sign up for a recruitment agency and get some work for the holidays, or even during term time, creating a good curriculum vitae can feel a daunting experience. After all how can you write a curriculum vitae when you have no work experience?

Well there are things that you can mention on your curriculum vitae, that can demonstrate that you do have organisational skills or the ability to work well under pressure or to be reliable.

If you have done any kind of voluntary work then put this down on your curriculum vitae as if it were work experience. Then show how this voluntary work equipped you with skills.

If you have no work experience voluntary or paid, do not despair. If you have studied in 6th Form and are at University then you can demonstrate that you are able to work without constant supervision, that you are able to prioritise your workload, that you are reliable etc. It really is a case of using whatever experience you have and making it applicable to the working environment.

In the same way you can use your hobbies and interests to show that you are a person who is able to undertake various tasks or duties. If you have any interests that involve being part of a team, then these obviously demonstrate that you are a team player. Even things like playing in a football team, show that you are a team player.

So instead of thinking that you have no work experience, so you will get no temping jobs etc until you get your degree, then forget this kind of negative attitude. All it takes is a little creative thinking (but no dishonesty) on your behalf and if you are a student, then you should be bright enough to think how your school work, studies and interests can all show that you really are very employable!

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If you are looking for temporary office employment in London and you have been looking unsuccessfully for a couple of weeks, then you might be starting to despair, but do not worry because it will be fine, you will be able to find a job, it just may take a little longer!

First of all, if you are using a recruitment or employment agency, then are they actually helping you to find employment? Do they have a wide range of positions to offer you? If not, then you should ditch that particular agency and go to another one!

Post your Curriculum Vitae online and make sure that you are keeping an eye on jobs going in the newspapers as well as online. Your Curriculum Vitae needs to be fairly good and if you do not have any relevant work experience the make sure that you get some, through doing voluntary work if required.

Be realistic about what jobs you can apply for. If you are starting off on your career path, do not think that you will be able to apply for positions running the company; instead you will have to start at a more junior level and build up to senior positions. Also be flexible about what hours you can work and what kind of pay you will be expecting, what kind of office you will work in. The more flexible, adaptable and so on that you can be, the better your chances of getting employment will be.

Treat finding a job as a job in itself and do not half-heartily browse through the newspapers or idly search online, in between checking out Facebook! Instead be ruthless and devote a lot of time to finding a dream temping job and then all you have to do is enjoy starting work!

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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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London is a big place and to those who are not familiar with the city or who have not worked before, the process of ‘getting started’ working in London, can be intimidating. But the good news is that it doesn’t need to be, you can actually land a really good job temping, without having to put in too much effort. How cool is that ?

The first thing that you need to do is to register with a temping agency as soon as you can. This can either be an online recruitment agency or one that you find in Yellow Pages or similar. You may even see one on the High Street.

If you are very keen, then you could always register with a couple, so that you can find a dream job in next to no time at all. Checking out if the recruitment agency has any particular field of specialities e.g. secretarial jobs or white collar jobs, can also save you joining the wrong type of agency i.e. you don’t want to sign up to an agency who don’t tend to have the kind of jobs that you are looking for.

It is possible to find seasonal and temporary jobs in local papers or on the internet, but if you join an agency then you are to some extent protected by that agency and if the job doesn’t work out, it will be easier to find another position quite quickly. So give due consideration to this, even if you think that you have secured a really good job with a tiny advert you see in the local paper.

Make sure that you feel comfortable with the personnel at the recruitment agency and if you don’t, or they don’t seem professional, then don’t sign up with them: after all there are plenty out there, so you can literally take your pick!

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On your first day as a temp, it can feel a bit threatening, after all you are going into the workplace on a temporary basis, so will people even bother to give you the time of day, or will you just be given all the lousy jobs that no one else wants to do?

Well some companies may treat temps in this way, but others will make sure that you are treated well on your first day and that you are taken through procedures, fire evacuation policies, shown to the drinks machine or where the toilets are.

Basically, good employers recognise that a happy temp is a productive temp and a happy temp will stay longer than someone who is just dumped in a corner and then ignored: so it is in the interests of the employer to make sure that they welcome you and treat you in a manner that is appropriate.

As to the work you may get, well it is true that in some cases you may get a huge stack of files to place in the filing system, because everyone else hates filing. This can seem like a pain, but the good news is that if you just knuckle down to tasks that you are given, not only will you soon be appreciated by everyone on the team, you will also prove to management that you are a good worker and so if a permanent position becomes available, then you will be able to apply for it.

If you do find that your first day of temping is a nightmare, then don’t blame yourself: the employer should have ensured that you were treated in a manner that was fitting and welcomed you and out you at your ease. If you feel that you were not treated appropriately, then you can always vote with your feet and ask your recruitment agency for another position!

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