Employment Agencies
Employment Agencies (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the second lesson part of the Recruiters' Essentials lesson that introduces its participants to employment 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.
Content
The predecessor lectio is Third-Party Recruiters.
Key terms
- Employment agency. A legal entity that matches employers and employment candidates.
- Recruitment agency. Any entity that matches employers and employment candidates.
- Placement agency. Any entity that matches employers and employment candidates.
- Public employment agency. Any entity that matches employers and employment candidates.
Script
- An employment agency is any legal entity that matches employers and employment candidates. Various agencies may be grouped on the basis who pays for their services.
- The governments finance public employment agencies. Some of them recruit for publicly-funded jobs. These agencies may or may not be parts of the government employment offices. In addition to matching employers and future employees, they usually offer free-of-charge assistance with résumés, career counseling, and vocational training.
- Employment candidates pay for the services of recruitment agencies. Because of high probability of scam, many governments require these agencies to be licensed. The normal agencies rarely charge in advance; they may retrieve their fees from the future earnings when their customer has been already hired.
- Employers pay for the services of placement agencies. These agencies usually specialize in some high-volume areas of temporary employment such as babysitting or housekeeping. They either send the candidates to their potential employers, who hire or don't hire the sent candidates.
- Some consider staffing firms as the agencies as well. These firms act as employers. They hire employees directly, usually under the contingency condition, and then sell their services to their customers.
Recruiter Tools is the successor lectio.
Questions
Lectio quiz
- The answer is recorded for the lectio completion purpose:
- Is the difference between different types of employment agencies explained well? --Yes/No/I'm not sure/Let me think/Let's move on
