Jobs From Recruitment Agencies

In today's world appointing staff is a specialised process often best handled by by someone with legal or professional expertise. A process that the employer with a vacant position may very well have neither the time or skills to worry about.

The recruitment agencies often specialise in particular fields, and continually advertise their services within those fields so as to build up a database of suitable candidates working, or looking to work, in those fields.

This means that when an employer approaches a recruitment agency, that agency can often supply names of suitable candidates straight away. And this is why potential candidates should register with recruitment agencies.

Recruitment agencies also specialise in interviewing candidates so that, when requested, they can offer the employer a more detailed response. Interviewing is a valuable skill in its own right; a skill that not all employers will have.

What's in it for the recruitment agencies?

Well, there's no charge to the candidates for registering, but employers pay fees to the recruitment agencies if they supply them with candidates who they eventually appoint to permanent jobs. But for the agencies this is an all or nothing situation. They work on a no-appointment no-fee basis.

Temporary jobs are often covered on a different basis. Bank nurses, for example may well be employed by the agency itself and then contracted out to hospitals, factories, nursing homes, etc. as and when required.

Traditionally, job advertisements would appear in the local or national newspapers, or in publications specifically related to the employment sector concerned. More recently this has been becoming more of an Internet process, with recruitment agencies either advertising on their own web-sites or on a "jobs board" that specializes in hosting advertisements related to their employment sector.

Nowadays it is probably best for the candidate to begin his/her search at one of these specialized jobs boards. Through this medium, by "one" approach he/she will gain access to the jobs being advertised by "many" recruitment agencies.

The jobs boards usually offer a quick and easy on-line registration process to enable the candidate to step onto the first rung of the ladder. A follow up phone call would no doubt make an additional impact.

After registration on a jobs board candidates are able to sift through the jobs being advertised by the various agencies ... and apply through the relevant recruitment agency for jobs that they consider suitable.

It then becomes the recruitment agency's task to sift through the available candidates and submit suitable candidates to the potential employer.

'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again'

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