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$ 250
Feb 2007
Chicago, Illinois
Retail
Huge influx of business caused need for temp retail worker  more... close row
$ 400
Sep 2007
Chicago, Illinois
Bookstore
Two student employees hired for back to school rush  more... close row
$ 17
Dec 2006
Tampa, FL
retail store
Temp agency made life a lot easier  more... close row
$ 12
Feb 2008
Pines, FL
Retail
Per hour wage for temporary retail employee  more... close row
$ 9
Nov 2006
Brooklyn, NY
Retail sales
Part time holiday help for electronics store  more... close row
$ 500
Feb 2007
San Diego, CA
Retail
Temporary employee to do inventory  more... close row

Description of service

I hired a temporary employee through a placement agency to help me with my inventory. The employee worked 8 hours a day for 5 consecutive days. I paid the placement agency $500.


Review of Service

My company needed to do an 'end of year' inventory last February. We kept intending to it but just did not have the manpower. Finally in February we decided to hire a temporary employee to help out. The employee we got had previous inventory experience. The experience they had was very different though. They'd had inventory guns to use where we were doing ours by hand count. The person we had was a hard worker but didn't catch on very quickly. In their defense, our business is not something most people are familiar with and it was difficult to explain the differences between products and how some should be counted together and some products as separate products. They weren't quite done by the time the week was up so I ended up having to pull an employee off the floor to finish up.


Tips

If we had it to do again I'd take an employee with less experience but a little bit of a quicker learner than someone with experience. Especially because general inventory experience wasn't applicable to the type of inventory we were doing.


$ 80
Dec 2007
Chicago, Illinois
Retail
Retail temps help with busy holiday season  more... close row
$ 13
Aug 2006
Lincolnton, NC
Retail Sales/ Manufacturing
Young entrepreneur hiring temp workers  more... close row
$ 100
Nov 2007
San Diego, CA
Retail
Temp employee to organize books  more... close row
$ 8
Jun 2007
Tampa, FL
small retail store
Students work as temporary employees during holidays  more... close row
$ 11
Mar 2008
San Francisco, CA
clothing store manager
Temporary cashier for store  more... close row
$ 10
Jun 2008
Pasadena, CA
Clothing Retail
Nothing good came of temp retail employees  more... close row