OFFICE temping

[eastendgirl]

I am thinking of joining an agency and doing some temping, I work from home normally and feel it would be nice to have a change. How much can I expect to be paid per hour, I can type fairly fast and speak a couple of foreign languages....

Ask a number of agencies, they should tell you and you can take an average.

I am paid anything from £15 - £23 - only do 2 days a week and don't speak any other languages!!

Have lots of experience of working in the industry I do for some pretty big names so I can ask for more because of that butyou shouldn;t be expected to get less than £15ph.

Have a look at reed.co.uk and see what's on offer.

Eastendgirl,

Depends on a large number of variables!

Main ones include:

1. What you can do and what experience you have
2. What the skills need is like in your area (e.g. you might have good language skills but there might be no companies with an international client base in your area)
3. What market rate is in your part of the country for the skills you offer
4. What's the market like? (If there are few high paid secretarial jobs around, for example, you may have to settle for a job requiring a lesser skill set and therefore with a lower wage).

Hth. Btw if you are in Merseyside and have any knowledge of accountancy / bookkeeping do let me know, we have loads of temp work atm!!

Thank you! Went off to watch This life but I am now back! I am in London, to be honest beside typing and speaking foreign languages I am not sure what I can offer. Should I try to teach myself Power point and Excel? I have been working as a translator for the last 10 years. Zero knowledge of accountancy and book-keeping. I am a nice person. Terribly disorganised but maybe I can fake it. Do you know any agencies in London beside Reed?

Hi Eastendgirl,

Sorry, I went to bed last night!!!

I would imagine in London (should have guessed from your name really, duh!) that there would be ample opportunity to use your language skills.

Reed's web site is actually a portal to quite a few other agencies; they advertise on there. You might be able to search under "languages".

For just pure office work I'd recommend Adecco and Kellys, but only from a personal pov; when I lived - briefly - in London, I temped for both of them at various points and they were pretty good.

If you want more tips on using an agency as a candidate, CAT me; there are a few tricks of the trade and standard "phrases" that we agency people use and it might help you to know what you are dealing with, iyswim.

Thank you very much.

If you've CATted me I'll get it this evening.

Banking Support is very good and so is Joslin Rowe.

You could work on the trading floor in investment banking with your language skills and earn megabucks!!

Trading floors are not really my scene, I am not sure I could fake it...
For: 3rdTriMossTer: I cannot access CAT, can you email me at [email protected] when you have time?