Companies need temporary, aka short-term, personnel for a wide variety of reasons such as high-volume seasons, special large-scale projects, and new government regulations. There is no guarantee these positions will end up being permanent for the people who fill them, but it is possible for some of those people to transition into permanent, aka full-time, employment.
Human resources experts all agree that working as a temporary worker gives one an opportunity to see a company from the inside and have an advantage over external candidates when applying for full-time employment.
Here are some tips on how to make your temporary job permanent.
The first tip is for someone in a temporary job to get in the right state of mind; to think of the temporary job as an extended job interview. Being able to show an employer, or specifically hiring managers who actually oversee full-time employees, that you can fulfill the tasks of positions with more responsibility/complexity than a temporary job is huge.
The same hiring managers have to take it on faith/belief that when an external applicant says they if they say they can perform a set of tasks, they actually can. People lie on their resumes all the time and people with short job histories unfortunately flat out don’t have the experience to point to.
Temporary employees should make sure they are as reliable as possible by delivering quality work every day. Having enthusiasm and positive energy is something that is somewhat intangible and overlooked but very important for someone trying to stand out in a crowd of other temporary employees.
All of this goes without saying that a person seeking to transition from a temporary job to a full-time job should get clear confirmation, in writing if possible, that it is a possibility. No one wants to waste their time trying to get a full-time job in a scenario where it’s not possible.
It is also beneficial for the temporary employee to make sure they like the intangibles a company has to offer, such as the corporate culture and key strategic principles. It is a lot easier to transition out of a company where there is a poor corporate culture or conflict in strategic principles as a temporary employee compared to a full-time employee. Such an employee would work with their temporary legal staffing firm to find another law firm with hopefully a better corporate culture to get hired full-time at.
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