What Employer Is
What Employer Is (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the second lesson part of the Recruitment Essentials lesson that introduces its participants to job market and related topics.
This lesson belongs to the Introduction to Recruitment session of the CNM Cyber Orientation. The Orientation is the second stage of the WorldOpp Pipeline.
Contents
Content
The predecessor lectio is Employment Vacancies.
Key terms
- Temp agency (temporary staffing provider). Any legal entity that provides employing organizations with temporary staffers known as contingent workers.
Script
- Staffing firms play unique roles on the job market. Legally, they are employers, but they employ those workers who will work for other organizations.
- The other organizations may or may not be able to employ the workers directly.
- Some of the organizations that experience recruitment needs cannot hire their own employees, for instance, because of legal issues. Let say, a company that is not authorized to operate in the United States may consider hiring a staffing firm there instead.
- Some of those organizations that experience recruitment needs and can hire may choose not to hire directly to save costs.
- A staffing firm is a legal entity that provides an employing organization with their staffers. Instead of hiring an employee directly, this organization hires a staffing firm to satisfy its recruitment needs.
- A temp agency is a temporary staffing provider. These businesses employ workers to temporarily work for another organization. The temporary staffers whom a temp agency employ are referred as contingent workers. Their employment is contingent on the availability of work.
- For many of those workers, temp work is an opportunity to get introduced to a potential employer and be further hired directly.
Staffing Firms is the successor lectio.
