How to Put Temp Agency Work on a Resume
Nine placements in two years does not make you a job hopper. It makes you employed. Here is how to lay temp work out so it reads that way.
Temp work creates a specific problem on paper. You did steady, continuous work, but written out one placement at a time it looks like you could not hold a job. That is a formatting problem, not a history problem, and it takes about ten minutes to fix.
List the agency as the employer, not each client
The agency is who hired you, paid you, and can verify you. So the agency is the job. One entry: the agency name, your title, and the full date range from your first placement to your last. Now two years of work reads as one two-year job, which is exactly what it was.
Underneath, list the placements as bullets. "Placed with a regional hospital system, a food manufacturer, and two logistics warehouses." That shows range without turning your work history into a list of goodbyes.
Group by what you did, not where you sat
If the placements were all similar work, do not repeat yourself nine times. Write the duties once, under the agency, the way you would for any job. If one placement was significantly different or more senior, give that one its own sub-bullet with the client name and what you handled.
A hiring manager wants to know what you can do on day one. Nine near-identical entries bury that. One clear entry with real duties surfaces it.
Say it plainly if a placement went long
If you were somewhere fourteen months, say fourteen months. Long placements are a strong signal, because agencies do not keep sending someone back who is not working out. "Extended from a 90-day assignment to 14 months at client request" is one of the better lines you can put on a resume, and most people leave it off entirely.
Do not hide that it was temp work
Some people try to make placements look like direct hires. It falls apart in about four seconds during a reference check, and then the issue is not your work history, it is that you were not straight about it.
Temp work is work. Staffing is how a large share of warehouse, healthcare, manufacturing and administrative hiring actually happens now, and the person reading your resume knows that better than anyone.