subject: Employment Agency And Their Role In Employment Creation [print this page] Employment agency or staffing firm as they are popularly known are playing an important and helpful role in assisting those who are seeking for jobs or career growth opportunities. Employment agencies are playing a dual role of job providers as well as job consultants by finding jobs for people and building an organized system of screened candidates. They also act as advertisers by providing referrals from satisfied candidates and employers to their new client organizations and prospective job seekers.
Employment agencies are providing solutions to tackle the key job market challenges. These agencies as intermediaries are contributing to more effective and active labor market policies by the following methods:
---By putting more people to work resulting in higher participation rates in employment and increasing the diversity of the employment market.
---By facilitating transitions in the employment market, through putting to work various people in different strata into the job stream. They are an important stepping-stone to the labor market and help especially to re-integrate the outsiders into the employment market.
---By supporting transformations, the employment agencies enhance the employability of the job seekers particularly by facilitating access to the training and by offering the opportunity to acquire professional experience in various, and different working environments.
---By cooperating with various government and public employment services within the framework of active employment market policies, sharing candidates and job vacancies database, assessing the jobseekers skills, facilitating access to training for job seekers and providing outplacement services to help unemployed to reenter into the employment market.
On an individual basis, the employment agencies are helping the job seekers in marketing their resumes, providing increased exposure to the job position to which the job seeker is eligible and pre-job counseling. Studies had shown that employers are more impressed by candidates who are represented by recruiters. In addition to that, these employment agencies are assisting the new and inexperienced job seekers to negotiate for a very suitable and equitable compensation package from employers.
The employment agencies also perform the critical human resource aspect or role of conducting employee searching and candidate profile thereby leaving the employers an ample time to focus better on their core business requirements. Thus, it can be well said that the employment agencies are extremely helpful not only job seekers but also play an important role in the overall economic scenario.
