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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick
    My friend was making $13 an hour through Randstad (staffing agency). And the only prior experience he had was some volunteer work at the school office.
    GOOD POINT. STAFFING AGENCIES ARE REAL POPULAR AS WELL. WE GET ALOT OF PPL THAT WRK FOR US AS TEMPS THROUGH STAFFING AGENCIES. IVE HEARD ALOT OF WAREHOUSE TYPE JOBS USE THEM ALOT. IT SUCKS BC U CAN GO TO WRK ONE DAY AND NOT HAVE A JOB THE NEXT. THATS BULLSHIT IF U ASK ME. IM PROLLY GONNA PUT THEM TO WRK AND FIND ME A DAMN NIGHT JOB. I 4GOT ABOUT THAT IDEA A WHILE BACK.

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    Most of the professional and/or better paying jobs require experience because it costs a lot of money to train a totally "green" person that may or may not work out. You're not producing while in training. You probably won't produce much just out of training. Someone, that's being paid obviously, has to train you. You may not like what you're doing right after you're trained and leave. So you see it's not that companies don't want to give people a shot, they actually do, it's just that it's a risky proposition for them too. If they did that too often with negative results, it wouldn't be long before they lost real money.

    That's just FYI.

    The staffing agency part is actually a good idea. They offer the opportunity to get your foot in the door. They also give you the opportunity to get benefits and that "experience" since they may place you in different positions you've never done before.

    Another idea is to pick a profession you think you may enjoy and stick to that. Too often we don't make up our minds and spend a whole lot of time jumping from one place to the next, which doesn't look good on your resume to prospective employers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BTEC
    GOOD POINT. STAFFING AGENCIES ARE REAL POPULAR AS WELL. WE GET ALOT OF PPL THAT WRK FOR US AS TEMPS THROUGH STAFFING AGENCIES. IVE HEARD ALOT OF WAREHOUSE TYPE JOBS USE THEM ALOT. IT SUCKS BC U CAN GO TO WRK ONE DAY AND NOT HAVE A JOB THE NEXT. THATS BULLSHIT IF U ASK ME. IM PROLLY GONNA PUT THEM TO WRK AND FIND ME A DAMN NIGHT JOB. I 4GOT ABOUT THAT IDEA A WHILE BACK.
    LOL night job...if you live near enough to the buford area(mall of georgia) i now where you can get a full time nightposition for starting in the 11 to 12 range!

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