If your Winston Resources staffing consultant contacts you about a temp-to-hire position, this is good news. It means if you take the assignment and do well in it, the employer may decide to hire you onto its own payroll.

A temp-to-hire assignment is really the best of both worlds. You can “try out” a company and job before deciding if it’s what you want to do. The company also is  taking a look at you to see if you’re a good fit for the position as well as the company culture.

In short, a temp-to-hire assignment is a terrific “foot in the door.”

However, you should know upfront that accepting a temp-to-hire assignment does not guarantee that you will be hired by the client company, even if you want to be. Things sometimes just don’t work out. The client company may decide it doesn’t need to hire a “regular” employee for the position after all. The person who left — causing a vacancy — returns. The company decides to tighten its payroll and eliminates the position altogether.

But when a temp-to-hire position doesn’t make it to the “hire” part, it’s usually because you or the company decides you’re not a good fit.

If the company decides to let you go, it may believe you don’t have the skills to do the job or the temperament to fit in with the company’s culture.

If you do decide you like the position and the opportunity it presents to you and you want to be hired by the company, here are some tips to help you do so:

• If the client company mentions to you that it would like to hire you, contact us immediately. You may been placed on what we thought was a temporary assignment, but your excellent skills and work ethic wowed the company enough that it decided it didn’t want to lose you. Do NOT work out the details of your hire with the client company; that’s our job.
• Do all you can to work as hard as others in the company who are doing the same job/tasks as you. In fact, if you can outperform those co-workers, all the better (just don’t be snarky about it).
• Always have a positive attitude. Think of yourself as already being a full team member; never have the attitude that you’re “just” a temp.
• Let us and the client company know you’d like to get hired on. Don’t announce this each and every day, but when you’ve decided that you enjoy the temp-to-hire assignment and  you feel working full-time at the company is in your best interests, let your on-site supervisor know. Let us know, too, so that we can make the proper arrangements.
• If you’ve been on the assignment for a few days or weeks and decide the position is just not for you, please let us know ASAP. We’ll work hard to find you another assignment quickly. We’ll also let our client know and we’ll begin finding another person to take on the temp-to-hire position.

Looking to take the next step in your career? Contact Winston Resources. We offer workers in the NYC area some of the highest-quality temporary, temp-to-hire and direct-hire assignments at some of New York City’s best companies.