If you have been job hunting for a longer period of time that you expected and you feel you should start earning some money, a temporary job is worth trying. It is a nice way to improve your financial situation for the moment. Besides, it is not a rare case when such positions lead to future permanent employment at this very company.

However, don’t assume that moving from temporary to permanent work is an easy task. You will have to do your best to prove that you are a very valuable and necessary worker, in order to make your employer consider leaving you at the permanent position.

4 Steps to Move from Temp to Perm

1. Be diligent and responsible. Don’t assume that if you are a temporary worker, you can work using the half of your potential. If you want to become a permanent worker, you should work as if you were already one. Do you best when accomplishing tasks. When you show what you are capable of, you are more likely to be offered a place. No person should be able to surmise from the quality of your work that you work on a temporary basis.

2. Dress apporpriately. Not only the quality of your work, which shouldn’t give away that you are a temporary worker, but you clothes as well shouldn’t do that. Make sure you know company’s standard dress code and try to meet the requirements. Some people consider that working on a temporary basis allows them to be more casual in their attire. But if you want to be considered a permanent worker, you should not allow yourself such faults.

3. Establish good rapport. Forging relationships is a key point if you want to remain at this company permanently. Don’t be afraid to talk to people, make friends, ask questions and exchange opinions. Be friendly, unprejudiced, open but not too importunate and boring. Establishing good relationships may help you either get help to stay at this job or to find a good place elsewhere.

4. Be initiative and hard-working. A bit of extra work, which you will be willing to do, may be crucial. If at the end of the working day before leaving to home, you ask your supervisor if there is anything else he wants you to do, or anything you can help him do, your instructor may start thinking that you are the kind of worker they might need for a permanent work.

If you have read the tips above and understood what mistakes might have already done when worked as a temporary worker, next time be sure to avoid such mistakes. The main rule is if you want to be considered as a permanent worker, work and look like as if you were already one.