Recruitment services and recruitment agencies perform a necessary and important task. They match employees with companies and vice versa. Through recruitment services and recruitment agencies, both the employees and the companies win.

While it is true that the most common way for finding a job is to wear out your boots padding up and down office stairs, it is equally true that all this effort may still lead to negative results. Despite all your honest effort, all that answering advertisements and all those phone calls and submitting online resumes, a person still may be unable to land a job.

On the other hand, business organizations also need help in finding competent and qualified employees. All the advertising of job vacancies, all the responding to email, phone and mail inquiries, all the testing and interviewing may yield no good results. Time spent doing all these things, moreover, could have been better spent on business operations.

Recruitment Services and Recruitment Agencies: Bridging the Gap

Recruitment services and recruitment agencies can help both job applicants and businesses. On one hand, they help job applicants because these people can leave their resumes with the agency and let the agency find them a suitable and acceptable position. On the other hand, they help companies by advertising the companies' job vacancies, accepting applications for the positions, sorting through and screening the thousands of responses as well as old job applicants, and finding the right person or persons for the job.

Recruitment services and recruitment agencies usually focus on certain fields to provide better and specialized service. Thus, some recruitment agencies deal only with corporate recruitment whereas some only deal with the academe and political, religious and social organizations. There are also those that deal entirely in overseas recruitment and hiring. These agencies may also differ in the type of jobs they fill. There are those that cater solely to entry level jobs whereas there are those that cater to filling executive posts. Then, of course, there are specialized agencies that deal in temps and fill-ins or contractual employment.

How It Works

Typically, providers of recruitment services and recruitment agencies take the form of consultancy firms. Most of them are relatively small, although some are indeed big enough to span continents. On the other hand, there are also aggressive recruiters - also known as headhunters - that usually contact employees (often executives) of other companies and entice them to work for their client.

Professional recruiters are often paid by commission for every successful hire they make or contract they fulfill, or might have a base salary against completion of future requirements for their client. By necessity they are often very knowledgeable about the details of the industry they work in, and know facts about important people in it whom they might one day be called on to hire for a client. Thus, recruitment services and recruitment agencies can be relied on to provide excellent results.