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Temporarily Yours may be Padding the Cage (Reply to this comment)
by johnathan_s
After nearly exhausting myself researching and writing to companies for the past 8 months, I finally decided to contact Temporarily Yours in Vancouver, BC, to see if they could find me work. On the phone, the representative said "Oh, I have 4 positions available right now: why don't you come in tomorrow and take the written test." So I did. After so many months of looking for work and getting interviews but no jobs, I went in with a smile on my face, thinking that finally I would be working. Mind you, at $14 an hour, but something is better than nothing.
I took their Word test (which, incidentally has some programming errors, making it impossible to get 100%), as well as their Excel test (same deal), and then had a typing test to take, in which I was required to type at least 50 words per minute. Tired and nervous, I took this test, which started with the phrase "As employers downsize their companies and employment becomes harder and harder to find...."
I mentioned to the agent that I thought the text was a little too much, given the market right now. She laughed! She then told me that I had to "remove" quite a bit from my resume, and re-submit it. She also said she would contact me "right away" as soon as the employer got back to her.
That was over 4 weeks ago. I'm still waiting. I submitted my dumbed-down resume as she asked, but interestingly enough, she had not yet seen a copy of it when I phoned to verify that she received it. I wonder why that would be?
After sending a friend over and them promising him a job "next week," I decided to do a little investigating: the Better Business Bureau has no current complaints against them, but according to a friend who works for Human Resources Canada, Hunt Temporarily Yours has never, EVER promised that they have positions available. Her comments were that 1) Hunt and Temporarily Yours were originally two separate agencies, so that should tell you something about their "own" situation right now, and 2) what the agent is probably doing is padding the cage by getting as many resumes as possible, and then sending the "best of the best" out to these clients.
Is this practice illegal? Well, they aren't promising you anything if they're saying that they have to talk to the employer and get back to you, and it's impossible to tell if they are lying when they say they have "...positions available right now," but, if they're making you take tests, re-submit your resume and telling you that a job is in the immediate horizon and there isn’t one, then it's probably not very ethical. To me, the only one with a secure position through Temporarily Yours is the agent taking the resumes!
My bottom line: Think twice before signing on with Temporarily Yours.
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Apr 24 '03
2:04 pm PDT
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Not bad pay (Reply to this comment)
by remnjava
Manual labor gets about $6 here in the midwest. Unsure about white collar labor, they never called back.
INformative,
Thanks!
Carol
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Oct 31 '01
4:06 pm PST
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Thanks... (Reply to this comment)
by bfr16
for sharing your experience!
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Mar 01 '01
10:08 am PST
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