Temping Agencies

[anksta]

Does anyone get any luck with these? I signed onto 2 last summer and never heard anythin except one phone call on literally the day after I was available for work (they were aware of that date as well).

I need to join a couple now in Leeds to get me some steady part time work, I dont mind what but I have sort of an ideal that I am definitely qualified for, helping the blind. And I dont mean going to blind schools or anything like that, I mean blind people who work in offices etc. My dad is blind and he's a solicitor, he has a reader there with him at nearly all times to help read his mail, type certain things up etc.

Seeing as how I'm 21 and been helping him since I could walk I feel I am at least overly qualified for something like this, I know for a fact my dad gets his readers from temping agencies but all the oones I've spoken to act like I'm off my head. The nearest I got was this one that said he knew of an Agency right near that one that specialised in stuff like that, but he had no idea what it was called and I couldnt find it either.

How far off am I in thinking this is a good idea? And does anyone know of anywhere that does this sort of thing? Anywhere in Yorkshire or Manchester/Lancashire? Such a wide area, surely there must be one company in there that caters for blind people?

Cheers

 

[.:MBK:.]

wouldnt it be best to ask which agency your dad gets his readers from, certain agencies deal with certain job lines, and certain companies.

The temp agency im with found me work within 1hr of signing up, and have had a new job instantly once my time was up on my previous

Also you might get funny looks as your average agency temp mostly ends up doing admin or data entry (including myself)

 

[Glaucus]

Bad idea, the number of readers they will need will be extremely low. The chance of you finding one will be almost non extinct.

Oh and sign on to ever agency in person, not just two. Some say they have jobs. But all they want is your name on there list. That's why you hear nothing.

 

[Steeps]

I signed up to one agency, within a week was already covering short notice shifts, did that for a couple of weeks then ended up full time at another company. Sometimes you get everything in one go, othertimes you get nothing.

 

[anksta]

Bad idea, the number of readers they will need will be extremely low. The chance of you finding one will be almost non extinct.

Oh and sign on to ever agency in person, not just two.

I dunno, I reckon the vast majority of people qualified to work with blind people will be overly qualified for a 7pound an hour job opening letters and what not, and then everyone else will not be qualified for the work, mainly patience etc.

 

[Glaucus]

I dunno, I reckon the vast majority of people qualified to work with blind people will be overly qualified for a 7pound an hour job opening letters and what not, and then everyone else will not be qualified for the work, mainly patience etc.

And how many blind people in a city will need that help. The numbers are stacked against you.

 

[misterPK]

It pays to sign up with more than one agency. I signed up with two back when I did some temping. One got me a steady stream of jobs, and the other I only heard from about a year or so later when I'd already got a permenant job...

PK!

 

[hogfather]

Pester them! They get tens of people a day signing up, so you need to remind them of who you are, get your CV toward the top of their pile!

You never hear from them if you don't pester them, I always found.