by Sarah Espigares

Created on: October 29, 2008

Do agencies find prospects better jobs? The answer is not necessarily, but sometimes yes they can find jobs that are better and for two main reasons.

The first reason that agencies can help you to find a better job is because it is their full time employment to find jobs. Have you ever heard the saying "It's a job finding a job"? Well, it is. For employment agencies finding jobs is their bread and butter which means that they know the jobs that are out there. They know when something new has come up. They know who's hiring at the time. They know the new companies setting up shop who are going to need new staff. This is their job to know this. An individual who's been looking for a job for 2, 3 or 4 weeks could not possibly know all this information. Especially not having the same resources and tools that agencies invest in. So is it possible then to assume that an agency is going to know of more job possibilities that you the job searcher haven't found? Yes it is.

The second reason that an agency can help in finding better jobs for a candidate is that there are many companies, especially large corporations, that only use agencies for their recruitment needs. When a company is so big, the costs of having an onsite recruitment staff can be expensive. Hiring a department full time to do hiring is a lot to spend on annual salaries, office space and supplies and thus leaves the option for many companies to outsource. Who do they outsource to? Employment agencies. Many companies will take in resumes directly from candidates, but when the company is that large and there are so many possible departments for employment, are your details necessarily going to get to the right person? Not likely. What tends to happen is that the agencies are informed of an opening. This then prompts the agencies to prepare potential candidates for the role. The details of these candidates are then sent directly to the department in which the vacancy is. This way the hiring manager spends as little time as possible looking at resumes and choosing the most ideal candidates for the job. This can still take hours depending on how many agencies are involved and how many candidates are sent over. For a lot of the larger companies direct recruitment is too expensive and time consuming that they will simply give the task to an agency to complete. With many of these jobs being with large, well established companies there is a good chance that you could be missing out on a better job possibility by

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