This woman is a 46-year-old assistant accountant. After a professional baccalaureate option in accounting and management, she began her career in a large group and enriched her career through the interim. She tells us about her journey.
Tell yourself about your journey…
I found my first job through connections and the other two through temporary assignments.
For 7 years, in medical equipment and technological asset financing company, I held the position of assistant accountant and I obtained a job development.
At a leading supplier of healthcare products, paints and chemicals: in this large international group, I worked as an assistant accountant for 9 years. Locally, everything had to be set up for accounts receivable. So I contributed to the establishment of procedures and during these 9 years, my position has evolved.
Finally, within a large cosmetics group: I worked as a treasury and inter-company accountant. In this international group, in addition to my professional skills, I contributed to the implementation of an ERP (“Enterprise Resource Planning” or an ERP – “Integrated management software package”). It was a tiring and agonizing experience, but ultimately exhilarating and very satisfying.
When did you start working as an interim worker and why did you choose this status?
I decided to work on an interim basis to test my professional and human skills after these 3 long experiences. My assignments allowed me to know where I stood in terms of adapting to new working methods and professional relations.
For me, the interim was a good springboard after my long experiences. In addition, the interim is a trainer to acquire new skills. For example, the last temporary assignment that I accepted despite a lower salary allowed me to learn about a computer module that is very popular in the job market. A pre-hiring mission which is traditionally 3 months also allows both the employer and the candidate to discover themselves and above all to form an opinion on their collaboration.
How has your acting career been so far?
Each time I have called on the interim (3 times in all), my assignments have been of high quality and two assignments resulted in two permanent contracts. The advantages are the training, the tests on one’s abilities, the variety of tasks, but the major disadvantage remains the precariousness of the job.