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What is your contractual obligation with the current company and the current temp agency? Did you commit to be there until a certain date? Did you receive this new offer knowing that, should you choose to accept it, you would be required to violate the preceding agreement?
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This company is notoriously cheap. They won't commit with the recruiter for an end date for the front desk role I'm in. The recruiter has asked h.r. TWICE already when this position ends, and the response she receives is, "We're not sure yet." The previous receptionist left after one year. I can see why now.
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As for the new company, if there is a position you qualify for, I so no reason not to try to secure one of those for yourself, assuming a full-time spot is what you are really after.
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Yes, I need a full-time job; it's not about 'want' at all. I NEED stability in my life. A full-time job is more stable than a temp job. This other company has a 2 month receptionist gig. Now, I hate receptionist work but it's all I do. I mean, I really really hate it. It's not what I want to do with my life but it's on my resume as contract work. I've been trying to break free from it for over 10 years and was a substitute teacher until I had to quit that to take care of my mother for a year before moving my mother to a nursing home. Now I'm back in the temp hell trying to find a full-time job. I had a full-time job this fall for 5 weeks but was then laid off or fired as the employer "merged" the position with another one and I was done.
I am interviewing today for that 2 month receptionist job. This is my leverage. Recruiters have no loyalty to temps. This I know. This company has other full-time job postings that I will use today's interview to ask about. Then, if I'm offered the 2 month temp job, I can go back to my other temp agency that placed me where I'm currently at and tell her upfront; "Look, I got a job offer with another temp agency and I will take it unless this other company agrees to hire me or increase my pay."
I will accept the 2 month job regardless of what the recruiter at my current temp agency says, to cover my butt in case she won't go to bat for me with this current company, who are dragging their heels about hiring me or giving an end-date to my contract assignment with them. They are meeting about me right now, about 10 feet away. They'll either fire me or not.
But if I'm not offered the 2 month temp job today and the other place fires me, meh, I belong to 6 temp agencies so I'll just contact them all and tell them I'm available for work and continue applying for jobs through LinkedIn.
Thanks for your advice and sharing your own experience with using leverage in the corporate world. You're right. There are not guarantees using leverage will have the desired outcome. But, I'm willing to take that risk as I have nothing to lose either way. I hate it here, they won't give an end date to my assignment, they won't hire me outright which means paying a break-contract fee so this current front desk job has no future anyway.
I just want a stable job. Trying to convince employers to interpret my resume to see the "me" beyond my contract-work has been an uphill battle. I feel like that mythological character Sisyphus, rolling that rock up a steep hill and never reaching the top.