subject: It Recruitment Agencies [print this page] IT positions are the up and coming jobs in todays workforce. Finding the employees that are qualified to perform these jobs is not as easy as finding a person to flip burgers on a grill or answer the phone at the switchboard. Some companies have given up on every finding people trained and experienced enough to perform these tasks, while other companies quickly realized that the answer to finding these employees was in the IT recruitment agencies.
IT recruitment agencies can adequately advertise the positions that are open in places where qualified people are likely to see the posts. Marketing job boards are frequently used by the IT recruitment agencies to find the pool of candidates they need to choose from.
Once a pool of candidates is formed by IT recruitment agencies then these firms go to work weeding out any of the people who do not have the proper educational credentials to meet the requirements the company has set for the workers they would like to hire. Once the credentials have been established the IT recruitment agencies will have cut their pool of possible candidates in half if not cut the numbers they have to choose from even more.
The next thing that the agents will examine will be the work history of the person that is applying. Some companies require that the people they hire have a certain number of years of experience and training under their belt before they will even consider hiring them. There are some companies that require no such number of years of experience so these criteria will be set out by the company hiring the person and the agency will simply be trying to match the individual applicants to the job they are most suited to.
The pool of candidates will be far smaller after this portion of the weeding is done, but the agency is not yet finished establishing who will be sent as a recommendation to the company. The next thing on the agenda will be to determine if the person lives in or near the vicinity of the job they are applying for. This is to make certain that the people who are close enough to get to and from the office where they will be working are considered before the people that will have a difficult commute to work. At times they will even ask if a person is willing to relocate to procure a job.
Once the fact that the individual applicant is capable of getting to the work station each day they must have criminal background checks performed. It is sad to say that this is a part of hiring new employees at this time, but almost no one can afford to hire a worker without performing background evaluations. After the background evaluations are complete it is highly likely that the next thing the agency will do is ask the few remaining candidates if they are willing to be drug screened. The drug screening is also something that is now a necessity before entering the workforce.
