Provisional placements aren’t bad

Everybody seeks a permanent job and an interim placement is viewed with skepticism. Unattractive and disliked, provisional placements are regarded as mind-numbing.

The belief that temporary jobs are detrimental to career interests is not correct because they do offer remuneration and are jumping boards for a permanent job. If you can understand this aspect, you can use them to your advantage. How?

·   You heighten your curriculum vitae

Resume rot is a malady that afflicts the unemployed. If you happen to be jobless and unwaged for long, you focus your endeavours exclusively on job hunts. Little do you realize that you could utilize the time for beefing up your resume.

Provisional placements are a source of income and present a chance to gain work experience that can be of immense utility subsequently. You will be able to grasp the fundamentals of any business or organization; and when you land up in a permanent job later, your knowledge and familiarity will count. In addition, you stand to acquire new proficiencies and improve your existing expertise. The very mention of these aspects in your resume is by itself a positive factor. Even part-time jobs make good fillers. After all, your resume is an advertisement to your skills, experience and knowledge.

·   You make your presence felt

   Contrary to general belief, no temporary job is without accountability, though in some organizations, it could well be rather stress-free. You need to appreciate that it could show the way to a better job.

   It is not that a temporary employee is not assessed. Your efficiency and understanding of work together with your displayed traits and general outlook will invariably be under scrutiny. So, you need to utilize the opportunity because you never know that your appointment can be confirmed and you are absorbed as a permanent employee. After all, luck is always a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. Temporary placements offer you practical acquaintance with people; the confidence level that you build with them will stand you in good stead, should any of them be assigned a role to hire new people.      

·   You gain experience

   You will always feel the impermanency attached to your provisional placement, come what may. It is essential that you do so because then you will not be rigid and unyielding in your approach. Even if the job requirements are severely demanding, you will always have this gut reaction that you are not there to stay forever.

The significant point is that more often than not, ab initio, men and women are unaware of what they want to do and attain in life. A provisional placement is a good method to experience and understand different job conditions. The only source of knowledge is experience and whatever knowledge you gain at a temporary job will help you in its application later in life.  Experience is a lucky grindstone; you ought to be brightened by it and not ground.

·   You enjoy pecuniary benefits

   There is no denying the fact that money makes the mare go. Though this should not be the singularly important factor, but it is a significant one; and hence you should have no reservations in accepting a temporary placement to get the money that you need.

   Like money, good jobs do not come easily and without effort. If feasible and workable options do not come your way, getting into a provisional placement is an excellent method to make some money. If you are still at college, you can take on an evening job; alternatively, you can also work during day and attend evening classes.

The final word

You may not be very pleased about a temporary placement, but you need to view it as an opening to get into motion to achieve your long-term objectives in life.  And if you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.