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Job Hunters Today Need A Staffing Company

By Kristina Jenjen


The day of going to open interviews with a paper copy of your resume in hand are long gone. In this computer age the majority of applications are sent as an attachment to an email. This makes it virtually impossible to get an interview. If you cannot get an interview you cannot get the job. One job posting on an employment search engine may garner fifty to one hundred responses with resumes, cover letters and references. How do you get your resume seen by the employer, and if seen how do you make a personal connection without an interview? To actually be seen by a prospective employer you need a staffing company.

The process of hiring new employees has become too time consuming for most human resource departments to handle. Employers have found that by working with a staffing agency they can shift a portion of the work over to the staffing agency. This frees up time for the HR department and saves the employer money.

Staffing agencies provide job seekers with a connection to employers. Submitting fifty resumes online may not merit even one interview. You cannot get hired without an interview, so all that time spent sending resumes was basically wasted time. Getting signed with a staffing agency will change all that.

Employment agencies and employers work together to fill staff vacancies. When the agency has a good candidate for the open position, it will arrange an interview, which gives the job seeker the golden opportunity to be interviewed. Without an appropriate candidate the agency will post the position on one or more of the many online search engines.

If you have registered with an agency you will probably have an interview for the open position. If you are not registered with an agency but respond to a job posted on a search engine, you probably will not even get an email confirming that your application was received.

There are three types of jobs you can get from an agency. You can be hired as a temporary employee, meaning you are hired for a short period of time. You can be hired as a temporary to permanent also known as a temp to hire. In this case you work as a temp for an agreed upon length of time, and if the employer is happy with your work, you may be hired as a permanent employee. In both of theses situations, you are working for the agency. The term agencies use for these types of positions is assignments. When an assignment is complete you are eligible for a new assignment.

The third type is a direct hire or permanent hire. This means you have scored a home run. You have a permanent position and are an employee of the company, not the agency. Your working relationship with the agency is essentially completed.

If you were going to draw a diagram, you would be in the middle, the employment agency would be to your left and the employer would be to your right. You could draw a line from the agency to yourself then to the employer. Now you can see the connections. Take the agency out of the picture and it is just you and the employer floating around without any connection. This is why you need a staffing agency.




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