I started in my current career via a temp service.
What happened was I took a typing test and a test for microsoft office... I had higher scores than the recruiters at the temp agency so they gave me a job doing data entry at $8 per hour... this got my foot in the door at a company that while privately owned would be a fortune 500 company otherwise... (so billions of dollars in revenue type company)
in my little meaningless job... I optimized then I had no job to do and asked what else I could take on, I took on more and optimized that... eventually they hired me on as a full time employee... but I had little to do again until asking for more and got it and optimized that... eventually I stopped asking and just found my own things to optimize...
Now that's my job... to optimize things... automate and make things efficient... and I make ALOT more than $8 an hour...
My point is, someone on the spectrum probably doesn't have the same opportunities in a traditional interview as they might through the use of temp agencies. (I think interviews are absurd and don't really let an employer know about a potential candidate)
Key things to ask when interviewing with a temp agency:
- What type of jobs do they fill (if you are clumsy it's bad to sign up with a temp agency that does physical work that requires precision)
- Do you get holidays off
- What are the terms for going permanent
- How often do employees get hired on permanent
- What are pay days based on (daily, weekly, bi weekly, or simi-monthly, etc)
Some temp agencies are better than others. Do not sign any contracts that say that you have to only get temp jobs through a specific agency and then if an agency doesn't match your needs be willing to move on to the next one. You will be a dispensable worker, in return you should have the right to dispose of the agency or assignments if they don't work for you.
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Very high systematizing, low empathy, but moderate to high sympathy.
I do not experience cognitive dissonance reduction the way that other people do.
Professionally diagnosed in March 2018