The labor market is so large and diverse that it is not always possible to figure it out on your own. As a rule, recruiting (personnel) agencies come to the rescue, providing services to both job seekers and employers.
Recruiting agencies can be divided into two main types, depending on whether their main clients are job seekers or employers. In the first case, they are usually referred to as recruitment agencies, and in the second, recruitment agencies.
Recruiters work scheme
The scheme of work of employment agencies, in principle, is quite simple. For a fee, the applicant is provided with information on several vacancies that may suit him. In principle, this is where the agency's participation in employment ends, so the attitude of applicants to such a business is usually very restrained. The agency obtains data on current vacancies either from open sources or directly from the personnel services of organizations and enterprises.
There are also so-called mixed type agencies. They receive income from both job seekers and employers.
The recruiting agencies are more professional, for whose work the employer pays, not the applicant. The tasks of such an agency include finding candidates whose experience, knowledge, qualifications and other characteristics to the maximum extent meet the requirements of the employer who offered the vacancy. In addition, employees of the recruiting agency conduct an initial interview, check resumes, arrange psychological and professional tests. Since the income of such agencies directly depends on the future salary of the candidate (the cost of services varies from one monthly salary to half of the annual income of the future employee), they are interested in the best conditions for the applicant. Naturally, this is true if the candidate meets all the requirements of the employer.
The services of recruiting agencies are used both by representatives of small businesses that do not have their own personnel service, and by large corporations, including foreign ones.
Additional services
In addition to direct recruiting or job search services, many recruiting agencies provide various additional services, such as conducting educational and motivational trainings, checking and evaluating personnel and personnel work, organizing events aimed at increasing internal loyalty and teamwork efficiency, psychological testing, and other. Finally, a recruiting agency can provide one-time or permanent outsourcing services, for example, record keeping. For applicants, consultations are offered on behavior at an interview, the correct design of a resume, and various trainings.
