What office temp jobs are available these days?

[Blakeyrat]

@Running_with_Scissors

Back in the late 1980s, while in college, I earned pretty decent money (for a student, anyway, about $13/hr, IIRC) doing word processing in NYC via temp agencies. These days, I assume word processing as a career is pretty much dead since everyone has a computer on his/her desk. So do office temps still exist? What to they do? How much do they get paid?

I highly doubt word processing is dead. Maybe on the decline.

I did temp work at Microsoft a few years ago testing Xbox 360 games. That’s a good example of a type of job where you need a lot of people for just a couple weeks.

[msmith537]

@nearwildheaven

Indeed.com is THE.MOST.USELESS job-searching tool ever. They just get stacks of newspapers and copy the want ads. In my old field, I often saw the same job listed 10 or 20 times.

How is that useless? That’s the point. Indeed aggregates want ads and other online job boards into one place.
It’s not like there is some secret job search web site that only has jobs that fit you.

@Silver Tyger

I’ve found if they don’t call you back immediately, they probably won’t. I’ve always heard you should call them every week, because then they’ll find you a job to make you leave them alone. I’m not sure if that works or not.

You should call every week so you stay on their radar. You aren’t their only candidate and they have other things to worry about than you finding a job. By calling just enough to not be a pest, when a job fitting your background comes in, they will remember that you are a fit for it, as opposed to digging through hundreds of other people’s resumes.