By Lucy Munroe


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.

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.

When an agency hears about a vacancy they will look at their roster of clients, job seekers, and see if there is a good fit. If they find a good candidate, the agency will arrange an interview. If they do not find a good candidate, the agency will simply post the job online with some of the many search engines.

If you have registered with an agency you will probably have an interview for the open position. If you are not registered with an agency but respond to a job posted on a search engine, you probably will not even get an email confirming that your application was received.

If you are registered with an employment agency and if you are hired, you are technically working for the agency, not the company that in a sense hired you. There are three type of positions for hire when you work with an agency. First there is temporary where you are hired for a set period of time, usually a few weeks or a few months. Second there is temporary to permanent, also called temp to perm or temp to hire. This arrangement allows the employer to judge your work performance before they offer you a permanent position. With both of these types of hire, employees send their time cards to the agency and the agency pays their paychecks. Agencies call this an assignment.

Third is the direct hire or permanent hire. This means the agency acted as a recruiter and you are a permanent employee of the company. The company pays you, and your connection to the agency has achieved its goal.

Employment agencies are in the business of finding people to fill vacancies for entry level to mid level hourly paid positions. Employment search engines merely post jobs and have no working relationship with employers. Job seekers simply have a better chance of getting hired when they work with an agency.




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