As I understand it, some placeholder jobs are just there until someone fills the office in political/legal jobs, with the understanding the person covering the job won’t take the job long-term, but isn’t that similar in someways, without overlap, to a temporary job?
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“Placeholders” are generally someone who work in that office and are just fulfilling a role of a departed employee until a permanent replacement ids officially announced. Often times it is the person who will fill the role permanently, but can’t until all the “red tape” is processed. But sometimes it’s a previous subordinate who keeps the business/office rolling until an outside replacement is hired or elected
A “temp job” is exactly that – A job that all parties involved knows is temporary, most often fulfilled by an outside agency to save the employer the cost and hassle of interviewing and hiring for a job that may not ever be permanent
It is generally a temporary promotion within a group, a placeholder generally has to know a lot about the post so are promoted from within as training a new person would be awkward for a holding position.
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