Recruitment Agency, Significance & its Role

Wednesday, August 8, 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.