Friday, November 27, 2015

People Today Should Have A Staffing Company

By Peter Thomas


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 staffing agency has its benefits for employers also. The process of hiring employees has become more than the human resources department can handle. Job applicants referred by a staffing agency have already had their skills verified, undergone a background check and been apprised of all the labor laws and rights.

Your agency is your liaison to prospective employers. Without that liaison, you have no connection. It is extremely difficult to get an interview based on an application submitted online. Your agency can and will get you job interviews.

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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