Perhaps you’ve heard about recruitment agencies, but it is possible you do not know what those firms do, just like the name suggests, recruitment agencies are firms or companies that have a listing of job vacancies, from these they try to match up individuals on their database with the right jobs as they become available. The chief aim of an employment agency is to find and employ workers for permanent or contractual basis. Temporary agencies mainly deal with recruited people for short-term contracts. These Temp agencies most regularly work with companies that want to outsource part of their workload at selected days of the year; this can be for the duration of their busiest or peak periods when permanent staff are on holiday. This however overlaps with recruitment agencies considering that at times temporary posts could result in a person getting a long-term full time job.
In the United Kingdom temporary workers are in reality hired by the agency which then receives payment from the company that wants temporary staffing. In most cases such a method often results in full time employment where the employee of the recruitment agencies becomes a paid employee of the outsourcing business rather than being paid by the recruitment agency. There also exists student recruitment offices. These days we also have recruitment firms that recruit people for special professional roles, this may be teaching for instance. In most cases the hired person is paid by that agency as a supply teacher and may be later employed on long term position by the school. Other recruitment agencies specialise in engineering and sales jobs.
Other agencies may also specialise in strictly executive recruitment. They add the executives personal information and skill listing to the database and then run matching with other recruitment agencies and other head hunting agencies. This tends to make it hard for firms to prevent their employees from being head hunted. There also exists an employment agency directory that enables employers to decide on which agency they think is best suited to manage their recruitment and staffing requirements. These agencies may request potential candidates to submit their resumes to ensure they can be linked to the proper vacancies, when employers are actively seeking for people to undertake specific positions.