Temp job that pays well - alicia

Posted: Aug 19, 2013

I was hired as a recruiter for a large cancer nonprofit that holds walk-a-thons. It is a 3-month temporary position and I was allowed to choose the hours, anywhere from 20 to 40 hrs a week. It involves reaching out to corporations and individuals and asking them for in-kind or monetary donations as well as participating in the walk-a-thon itself. Most of the contacts are repeat donors and are happy to get the call to join in the event again. Participation with the event is also required - setting up, shmoozing with sponsors, participants and their families, working information booths, etc. These walkathons are held throughout the country, too, so one might be happening in your neck of the woods. The pay offered was $16-20/hr and I asked for and was hired at $20 thanks to some volunteer work I did with a mentoring program. The organization I'm working for is one of many that hold events that require recruitment. The work can be exhausting - I was on the phone for 35 or 40 hrs I worked, but I love the work and it is definitely a foot-in-the-door type of job that, for me, is meaningful, pays well and won't be offshored. People I work with are great, too.