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GETTING THE MOST OF YOUR
TEMPS
Brief them for their new job:
Temporary
workers are used to quickly adjusting to new roles and learning what
is expected of them. Enable your temps to deliver their best work by
equipping them with all the tools that relate to their task.
While you
don’t want to overwhelm, you do want to arm your temp for success.
This means clearly articulating what is being asked of them and
providing them with the information and the training required by the
function.
Treat your Temps as your own
employees:
Many
intelligent, engaged individuals pursue temporary work for a variety
of reasons: the ability to enhance networking prospects or the
exposure to new industries and ideas.
Providing an environment that is beneficial to you and rewarding for
your temps means looping them into meetings, conversations, and
memos as appropriate to their designated projects, not just keeping
those conversations among your regular employees. Temp workers rely
on having all the necessary information given to them - even more
than full-time staffers who have their prior history at your
company.
Temps are YOUR EMPLOYEES while they
work for your company:
It is fully
appropriate to include
temporary workers in any events and activities undertaken at the
office. Is it a staffer’s birthday? Ask your temp if he or she would
like to sign the card. Going to lunch with your team? Invite the
temp. Even if he or she is unable, such consideration will help make
your temp workers feel part of the team, leading them to put forth
their best efforts to their assigned tasks.
Keep in Touch with your Temps:
Simply
because the project has come to an end, doesn’t mean you should send
your temp home with barely a good-bye. Talented and hard working
employees are rare, and there may come a day when you need quality
help again. Please document your temp’s time at your company and let
Twin City Labor Temps know how
they did!
Maintain the
contact information for those temps who did stellar work. Recurring
temp jobs are some of the best around for contingent workers, so
stay in touch to ensure that you’ll be able to go back to your best,
most reliable temps again and again.
As a
general rule of HR:
Treat all employees (yours
and the temps) the way you would want to be treated: honestly,
objectively, fairly and consistently on a timely basis.
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