For example, some career advisors believe that temp agencies tend to charge customers too much and pay employees too poorly for the sake of a good profit. Companies are not always pleased with the quality of workers they receive from the temps but may use them just to save money on recruiting and training. And workers may find their agencies don't deliver the salary and benefits they advertise. Thus, it pays to fact-find, said Susan Corser, employment coordinator with the Michigan Works Service Center of Washtenaw County. Before you sign any contracts, find out what is unique about each temporary arrangement, whether you will likely move from site to site, or whether a company will buy out your contract and hire you at the end of a 90-day period.
Few agencies require job applicants to pay any fees.
In my opinion, no one should ever have to pay for their services. The Washtenaw County Center's web site , includes a job fair roster. Temporary staffing services do not have to be licensed by any agency or association to advertise their services. Although she had enjoyed her work as an educational assistant with Ann Arbor Public Schools, she found she was giving too much of herself to the job. She found just the position through Manpower, a temporary employment agency that placed her in light production work at Ann Arbor's Pall-Gelman Sciences, a manufacturer of medical filtration devices.