Let's say there's two types of "Temp to Hire" jobs out there:
- The Google kind; who lie through their teeth to contractors that it's a definite path to a permanent position, but treat like dirt, and virtually never hire.
- The kind where a company who uses the temp position to evaluate the prospect's work, and then hires them as fast as they can if there's a permanent slot to fill.
No one who is not desperate for cash should consider the first type.
Did you reject the Sig offer because they did not
guarantee a full-time hire?
No Community College or voc-ed is going to
guarantee a diploma.
No economy is going to
guarantee a no-layoff job.
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There's plenty of nuggets of good career advice in this thread,
although it's kind of long on,
"(stop working and?) get some degree/training;
then use the education to get some dynamite job somewhere";
and it's short on,
"get an entry-level job with a good employer in your chosen field
who will
pay for a degree/training,
then leverage your education for a dynamite promotion".
And the advice is all over the map. So who to follow?
I hear good things about this career-advice book:
The Proximity Principle.
I hear it teaches at least these two things:
- A process to figure out what you want to do with your life.
- How to leverage all of the people you know to break through the Personnel firewall and be the interviewee that gets the job. All of my jobs were with companies where an acquaintance laid my resume on the hiring manager's desk.
I'm not even saying you should piss away $16 on some self-help book.
Just borrow it on interlibrary loan,
read it, and
follow instructions.
Delivery driver is a gold mine right now.
And when there's slow times, Read The Book.
And remember,
don't fixate on what you want to "be" -
many jobs are nothing like what people imagine -
figure out what you want to
do.
Hope this helps.