Graduate recruitment agencies are a great tool for students who recently graduated from university. In this ever changing job market, it's often hard to find job vacancies. Some companies only post jobs internally or only post them through job boards or recruitment agencies. Recruitment agencies were once looked at as an easy way out for recent graduates. However, recently they've been considered legitimate resources for people seeking jobs. Graduate recruitment agencies hire recruiters who utilize their skills to place each graduate in a great company. Agencies make the employment process smoother for both the graduate and the company that hires them.

Of course, while there are many positive aspects about graduate recruitment agencies, one downfall is that many agencies post the same job vacancies. These job vacancies are often the same vacancies that you'll find on common job boards. The reason these jobs are posted through multiple agencies is that the hiring company prefers to maximize the search potential instead of concentrating it through the resources of one or two agencies.

While it's frustrating to see the same job posted in multiple places and on multiple agency sites, you can use this to your advantage. Repeat job postings can lead you to different agencies. While it's good to focus on one recruitment agency during your job search, it also doesn't hurt to check out other agencies. New graduates should especially keep their options open and take advantage of researching alternate agencies. Only if you keep your options open, you stand a real chance to get placed on a job.

Using a graduate recruitment agency to search for other agencies might seem counterproductive, but it will provide you with more information. For instance, if you're looking for a marketing job and your current agency isn't providing you with any interviews, a new agency might have dozens of job vacancies. If you're following a repeat job posting link to a new agency, take a look around and see what services they offer and what job vacancies they have posted.

Additionally, check out the "Information" or "About Us" sections of each graduate recruitment agency website. They'll often include links to agency partners, subsidiaries, or alternate locations. Some of these subsidiaries or alternate locations specialize in recruitment in specific locations or industries. Some agencies are spread across various locations whereas some only focus on marketing, advertising, and administrative work and leave more technical and scientific based jobs to other agencies.

Recruiters often provide new graduates with information on the job seeking process, such as telephone hotlines, blogs, newsletters, or brochures. These usually include information on where to find additional agencies. Graduate recruitment agencies are usually tightly interlinked. However, it's easy to discover which agencies will be the best for your location, job sector, skill set, or education background.

Graduate recruitment agencies are a wonderful way to break into the job market. For new graduates, it's important to know all available resources. The first agency you find might not be the best for your specific needs, but it might be the one to give you information on another agency.

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