Hiring Agencies are outside firms that go and find candidates for employers. A company that helps people find jobs or employers find workers. An agency Worker Works through an agency that finds them jobs. As an agency worker. You will either have a contract for services or a contract of employment with the agency that finds you work. This work is often called “Temporary or agency work”. If you get a job through a hiring agency, you become an employee of the employment agency.
There are employment agencies out there that provide IT support people to firms. But professional engineering roles are normally found through recruitment agencies.
Use of Hiring Agencies:
Hiring people takes a massive amount of time. It is a real struggle to find enough time to do it well for many firms. Hiring is also very much a numbers game:. An employer often has to look at a lot of applications before he finds the right person for the role. That might sound a bit horrible and impersonal, and it is, but it’s also how it is.
Hiring agencies fill a specific need. Employers need the right people to apply for their jobs. But often they don’t have the time to go and find these people themselves. They use recruitment agencies to do this for them. So that the employer can spend more of their time interviewing applicants.
Agencies Work:
Agencies get lists of vacancies from employers. Then they place advertisements on internet job boards, and sometimes in other places too. They are also always on the lookout for new CVs being uploaded to the internet job boards.
If you’ve ever spent time looking through an internet job board at the current vacancies. You will probably have noticed that very few adverts mention the name of the company that is hiring. The reason for this is that the agencies are worried about not getting paid. If you saw a job that you liked. You applied directly to the firm, then the recruitment agency wouldn’t get its fee. Some agencies will take the CV that you give them and send the employer an edited version.
No reputable agency will change the contents of your CV without your permission.
Picking Process:
there are some good and bad agencies. It can be difficult even for industry veterans to tell them apart at first. I recommend checking to make sure that the agency is a member of the Hiring & Employment Confederation. – The industry’s only recognized trade body for recruiting agencies. You should also use Google to find out what other people have recently said about the agency. If you’re not happy with what you find, there are usually other agencies out there advertising the same role or similar ones.
The one exception to the rule is when an agency has an exclusive contract with an employer. In this situation. The employer has decided to use a single agency for all recruitment. All applications have to be submitted via that agency. If this is the case. You should be able to confirm this from the employer’s website, or by telephoning the employer.
If the agency is not a preferred supplier, then one of three things usually happens:
- The employer and agency agree to payment terms, and the employer will consider your application.
- The employer considers your application anyway but does not agree to pay anything to the agency.
- The employer decides that dealing with the agency is too much hassle, and will not consider your application.
You’ve no way of knowing what will happen in this situation, as it can often come down to a personality clash as much as financial terms. You’re better off avoiding this situation if you can and avoiding any agency you ever catch lying about their preferred supplier status.
Fee Process:
Recruitment agencies get paid by the employer for every candidate they put forward who successfully gets a job with the employer. Some agencies get paid on a fixed-fee basis, and some agencies get paid a fee based on your starting salary.
You don’t have to pay them at all, and you should never use any recruitment agency who asks you for any payment.
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Contract:
The role of recruitment agencies in contract placements is a little different. Here, the agency normally gets a percentage (known as the agency’s rate) of the money that the employer’s firm pays for your services. This is normally done by the firm paying the agency, and by you sending invoices to the agency. It used to be almost unheard of for someone to go contracting early in their career, but this is slowly changing. For now, advice about contracting is beyond the scope of this book, but if the industry changes in the future, I’ll do my best to provide advice in a future edition.
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