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Article: Temporary connections: to get a foot in the door, and to gain experience, HR professionals at many levels become temps.(Career Development Agenda)(Human resource)
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- HRMagazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Harriet Saxe is probably not your stereotypical HR temp. She left an HR job in the public sector five years ago to work as a temp and broaden her already extensive HR experience. It has been such a good fit for her--both personally and professionally--that she is still at it.
"It has been the best thing I could have done," says Saxe, who gets her assignments through HR Extras, a temporary placement firm specializing in HR, headquartered in Portland, Ore. "I always thought of myself as preferring a stable, traditional employment situation, but I guess I was an 'action junkie' deep inside." She adds: "I love moving from site to site, project to project."
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