Recruitment Agency, Significance & its Role

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Recruitment Agency, Significance & its Role by Nawaz

Recruitment is a fundamental purpose for employers to keep its
employees. When a specialized body of professionals carried
recruiting tasks, known as "Recruitment Agency". History of
recruitment agency begun from USA, their Fred Winslow has
established engineering Agency in 1893.

Recruiters make income by passing organisations (employers) with
job seekers (applicants - candidates) for job interview. When
employer decides to employ the forwarded candidate or
candidates, the recruitment agent receive a agreed upon
commission from the employer. Earlier it was a straight forward
procedure that recruitment agency post summary of a vacant
position / opening on to a job classified section of a news
paper and weekly magazines. But today they have vast options
because of the dot com prosperity. Now majority of the
recruitment agency have their own websites targeting not only
job seekers but also employers to post their requests. Similarly
they can reach out to global job seekers & employers. The job of
the recruitment agents are not only sharing announced vacant
position but also provide the explicit guide lines to job
seekers (through interview techniques, cv writing & cover letter
samples). Reputable recruiters also help candidates in targeted
job searching, thus saving the time of employers by forwarding
them filtered candidates.

Few basic tasks for Recruitment Agency!

1. Recruitment which helps's job seekers to move into the new
career.

2. Finding matched candidates as per job specification.

3. Provide top value services by fulfilling employers / clients
need.

4. Provide efficient job resource solutions.

5. Recruiters representing candidates and employers schedule and
arrange job interviews.

Recruiting & seeking eligible candidates can be a long and time
taken process therefore companies hire the services of a
recruitment agency. Job seekers usually find most of the jobs
are griped by an agency. Getting recruitment agency services
have many plus points, for e.g. The recruiters usually have
experience of screening cvs in the first stage, meaning that
they'll save 100s of hours of jobseekers cv filtering.
Additionally, recruitment agency generally interviews a vast
number of job seekers for a position in turn to locate the niche
suitable applicant for the role. In short employment agency can
direct you through the hiring course.