Should I Use A Recruitment Agency
To Find Me Work?

To find out if it's right for you, here's some information and advice on using recruitment agencies in your job search.

What Are Recruitment Agencies?

The fee is paid to the job agency (by the employer) once someone starts work or after someone has been with employer the required time.

Positions may be permanent, temporary, contract, full time or part time, or any combination of these.

In the case of temporary jobs, the job agency often pays the worker direct and charges the Company a little extra on top to cover their fees.

What Types Of Recruitment Agency Are There?

• High street chains (many with websites).

In the USA, these include:

• Manpower -- worldwide
• CBS Personnel -- 130 offices in 16 states
• Pro staff -- 90 offices across the USA

In the UK, these include:

• Reed
• Manpower
• Brookstreet

These employment agencies deal with a wide variety of work. A high proportion of vacancies are temporary and contract positions, particularly administrative or secretarial.

• Specialist job agencies.

Such as Hayes, Computer People, Accountancy Additions, Driver Hire. These recruitment agencies tend to specialize in one or more job sectors and as such have a lot of expertise. If you know the job sector in which you want to work, this can be very useful indeed. For general jobs, try the non-specialized recruitment agencies.

Should I Use An Employment Agency?

• Advantages and disadvantages of using a job agency and,
• 9 Top Tips to maximise your employment agency success.

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