Recruitment agencies play an important role to find and recruit employees in any reputed or well-established firm or company. As we know that recruitment is a task that needs a lot of time and manpower. Any company or firm can divide their work and focus more on production or main work. Let’s talk about recruitment agencies and their work;

Before talking about the role of a recruitment agency, you should know about basic and important things about recruitment agencies.

Do you know? What is a recruitment agency? The recruitment agency is an agency that works outside the firm to find and shortlist candidates for employers, to make it easier to recruit a candidate.

There are two types of agency recruiting candidates, a Recruitment agency and an Employment agency. 

1. Through a recruitment agency, you will get a job under an employer.

2. Through an employment agency, you will get a job under a recruitment agency. 

Losses arise during the recruitment of a candidate from an employer. 

1. Any company or a firm advertise or it comes to know that they need job applicants and huge application forms come which need to be shortlisted. Shortlisting candidate is a time taking process it eats precious time of any employer

2. It is a costly process if an employer leaves their important work to hire someone, the loss they are making is huge.

Benefits of recruitment agencies 

As we discussed above, losses and hurdles can be faced by employers while recruiting a candidate. Recruitment agencies provide a better option and solution to all hurdles and inconveniences to any employer who wants to hire someone. Employers can be numbered benefited from recruitment agencies. Some of them are listed below.

1.  Recruiting candidates takes a huge amount of time and stress. Also, an employer has to look at a lot of applications of candidates that want to be hired. Employers need to shortlist those applicants and choose some good candidates which is a time-consuming process. This problem can be solved by a recruitment agency. They shortlist applications and choose good candidates among them for any organization or employer.

2. A recruitment agency reduces the steps included in recruiting a candidate. They do all the necessary tasks on behalf of employers so that they can focus more on interviews and work.

How do recruitment agencies work

Agencies get lists of vacancies through employers, who want to hire employees through recruitment agencies. Recruitment agencies place advertisements after receiving vacancy lists to attract interested people. They place advertisements in different ways, it can be through an internet job board or it can be on news newspapers, etc. so that they can receive CVs from candidates. Recruitment agencies always lookout for new CVs being uploaded on internet job boards. After receiving CVs they shortlist candidates according to CVs and forward them to the employer. 

If you are a job seeker and spend some time on the internet searching for a job through internet job boards, you have probably noticed that some advertisements are not showing the hirer’s company name. Generally, they are recruiting agencies, they shortlist candidates according to CVs and categories them according to job need information provided by the employer. And the matching candidate’s CVs forward to the employer and it can be possible that they don’t provide personal details of the candidate in CVs and forward edited versions of CVs. They do this because they don’t want any employer to directly contact candidates and don’t pay them. This is the reason most recruitment agencies ask for CVs in word format. 

How to pick a good Recruitment Agencies

We know that everything has 2 different faces, good and bad, it doesn’t matter what’s the category or sector. In the Recruitment agency sector, many agencies are working for employers and candidates, in which some are good and some are bad. As a candidate selecting a good Recruitment agency is very important. If you have chosen a bad agency then your CVs might not be looked at by the employer. It can happen because of any certain or uncertain reason.

You can choose a good recruitment agency by some steps.

1. Search and know about all the available information about a particular recruitment agency. If you find anything suspicious or you do not find any necessary details it will be good to leave them.

2. Search and go through a candidate’s review about a particular agency, if you find most of it negative reviews then avoid them.

3. You can also directly call the employer of a particular job listed on any recruitment agency to verify them.

4. If an employer finds a recruitment agency worthy and repetitive then they always used to take their service only. And also all the job role vacancies would be fulfilled through that particular agency only. In that case, you can also find details about the recruitment agency on their website.

5. If any recruitment agency asks you for payment, avoid them because payment should be made from the employer’s side, not the candidate’s side candidates.

How do recruitment agencies get paid?

Recruitment agencies get paid through employers or companies or firms who want to fill their vacant employee’s place. Agencies get paid for each candidate who successfully gets a job at a particular agency. Payment can be on a fixed basis in which the amount is fixed per successful candidate to get a job, or it can be on a salary basis based on how much a candidate earns from its first salary. 

Candidates don’t have to pay any sum of money to a recruitment agency for their placement. If any agency asks you for payment to avoid them, it is a fraud.

Contracting Through An Agency

A little different role of agency in contract placement, here an agency normally get a percentage of the amount that is paid to the candidate as the first salary. The rate or percentage is predetermined by the agency and is payable by the firm or employer. And also by you sending an invoice to the agency.