Be honest about how frequently and how many hours you want to work. If you continually decline temp assignments and employer interviews, the agency will consider you unreliable and stop calling you. Your first appointment at the temp agency may not be your last. Most agencies make you reapply after three to six months, which helps you because you have gained more job skills through your temp assignments by then. The more experience, the better.
Temp agencies specialize in filling gaps in the manpower of large companies.
Many of the job descriptions only require the candidate to have a high school, vocational, or junior college education. Duties that fall within this description are parts assembly, forklift driving, shipping and receiving, welding, check sorting, opening and filing mail, and other duties that require you to move around frequently. These are not desk jobs. Hosts and cashiers are other positions that restaurants try to fill through a temp agency. Good organizational skills and a head for numbers are essential.