How to turn temp position into a contract.

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For the first time in my life I have found a job that I adore. I suits my life and personality 100% and I love the rest of the staff and store. However I'm one of about 12 temps and they're only hiring 1 after the season ends.
I know all the common sense stuff like being great at the job, working hard, being personable and having great communication skills. I just wondered if there's anyone what's made the decision before that had any tips or advice. I think there's at least one other temp that is in the running for sure (I'm sure there's others but I don't work with all of them) it's a retail job which I never thought I'd be good at but I am, after bing utterly broken mentally by my last job I would love this to work out.

I'm glad you've found a job that suits you after a rough time and I really hope it works out well for you. I would have thought the best person to answer these questions will be the one doing the hiring (store manager?), and so if it was me I would screw up my courage and try and have a conversation with him/her at a suitable moment (i.e. not when you are busy with customers or running out of the door at the end of the day). Make it clear how much you enjoy working there and ask how you can put yourself in the best position for a permanent role. Try and see if you can find out what the selection process will be, not in the sense of getting an unfair advantage but so you can be prepared, will there be an interview, will they be looking at performance metrics, just picking who they like best? If it's an interview you can def get started on some interview techniques and practice now, if it's performance you can do your level best to get your numbers up, if it's more subjective maybe one things is to make sure you are trained and aware of all the different tasks in the store, I know in some stores there's a reluctance to do too much training with temps as they don't always hang around but if there's ever an opportunity to do training or even to shadow one of the more experienced members of staff doing some of the trickier or less common tasks then jump on it, you will be more valuable to them if you're effectively fully operational or as near to it as possible compared to the existing permanent members of staff... just obviously don't go overboard and make yourself a nuisance either, focus on doing the work you have to the best possible standard!