Son is in 1st year uni studying statistics and looking for summer work experience in data science or analytics. Most of the relevant internships are aimed at penultimate year students, and so anything for first years is very competitive. I'm wondering about suggesting he tries temping agencies. A temp job manipulating data, using R, Excel, Python or similar would be ideal. They are sought after skills, with plenty of jobs out there but mostly require experience, and I'm not sure if it's the sort of thing a temping agency would offer? Also, I have no experience of temp agencies, so would want to know more before making the suggestion to him, such as:
Which companies are the big name (i.e. hopefully reliable) temp agencies to focus on?
Is it usual to just join one agency or several?
Anyone know of a temping agency that specialises in tech skills?
Who is the employer - the hiring company, the agency, or are temps self employed?
Can you tell them agency what type of work you want and hold out for something suitable, or are you obliged to take whatever they offer?
Any pitfalls we should be aware of?