Another Day, Another Damn Crisis
In the interest of being actually hired by a temp agency, I just altered my resume to suggest that I know, and I quote, "a little Excel." (It appears to be the ne plus ultra, and my lack of such knowledge is why I haven't been getting any calls.) I don't think I've ever so much as seen the damn program. Does anyone out there have a copy of Microsoft Office or the like, and who can therefore send me a free copy? I clearly don't have enough money to buy it myself at the moment.
posted by Cowboy Dave Dickerson | 11:49 AM
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you know there are temp agencies that specialize in placing freelance writers, right? My friend had one and was always getting hired for computer companies to take their technical manuals and write user friendly manuals, etc. ANyway, it's good pay, you should check it out. P.S. Excel is a breeze, you can fake it.
If you know their names, I'd like to hear them. I've just been going through list after list of about a hundred temp agencies and reading user reviews on them when I can. A writer-specific agency would ease my mind considerably.
Thanks for the tip on Excel. I figured it was easy---particularly since I don't imagine most companies use it for anything particularly demanding. It's nice to hear this confirmed.
Aquent is one such temp agency.
Thanks, Eric! I signed up with them, and now I'm going to Google and see which temp agency lists include them. They'll probably have others. Yay!
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