Unemployed Workers Today Should Try A Staffing Company

By Kristina Jenjen


In this computer age many job applications are sent online, not by the United States Postal Service, and certainly not delivered in person. The new process has some unintended consequences. When an employer receives one hundred resumes by way of email attachments, how can an applicant get his or her resume noticed? Different times call for different strategies. You need a staffing company to get an interview and a chance at getting the job.

Hiring new employees has become an onerous task for employers. One way they have found to lighten the hiring load is to shift a good portion of the process to staffing agencies.

Staffing agencies act as a liaison between job seeker and employer. When the desk of the employer is flooded with resumes, they will respond well to the call from the employment agency saying they have the perfect candidate for the job. Further that candidate has undergone a background check and his or her skills have been verified. This candidate will be much more attractive to the employer than the many resumes sitting in the email in box.

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.

Job seekers who are already registered with an agency have the advantage over those who simply respond to a job posting on a search engine. They have the advantage because the agency has already screened them and is prepared to send them on interviews. Agencies have the connection to employers to arrange an interview. All else being equal, the job seeker registered with an agency will get the interview, and maybe the job. The unrepresented job seeker will do well to receive an email acknowledging that their application has been 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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