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What is a Employment Agency?

A recruitment agency is a enterprise contracted by an employer to help with its recruiting needs. Employment Agencies find temp staffing to fill all kinds of jobs, from contract staff to temp-to-perm staffing in a number of career fields. Whether a enterprise needs Medical Assistant, Clinical Nurse Specialist or OR Tech contractor, a recruitment agency can source the right talent. Recruitment Company tend to have 3 primary areas of focus with many also specializing by industry:

  1. Permanent Recruitment
  2. Temporary Staffing
  3. Executive Search

According to [American Staffing Association] in the America over 2 million people are employed by recruitment agency, and recruitment company hire 7 million temp staff every year.

Function of a Employment Agencies

Employment Agency not only bring expertise to the employment process but they remove the time and administration work out of the recruiting process. Recruiting a worker can cost 6 to 18 percent of the role’s salary and take 32 to 41 days on average to fill.

A recruiter handles the search process and matches up an employee with the job in question, lining up potential candidates who interview with the businesses.

If a organisations needs recruitment, it uses a recruitment company. Employment Agency provide skilled employees to work on a temporary or contract basis. Often these roles are known as ‘temp to perm’ positions, whereby the temporary role may lead to a permanent position if the worker and recruitment company are a good fit.

For job seekers, an recruitment agency can be the ticket to getting that full-time medical assistant or clinical nurse specialist role. Recruiters can open doors to positions that may not be easy to find on your own. Recruitment Agency allow you to try out different operations and industries, whether you are looking for executive, contract, permanent or part-time roles.

In order to register with or work with a staffing agency, you'll have to do one or more the following steps:

  1. Find and register with one or more recruitment agency
  2. Fill out an online application
  3. Upload your resume
  4. Interviews and possibly assessments (if short-listed for roles)

If you secure temporary or contract work, the employment agency will be the ones hiring you. When a temporary position is a match for you, the recruitment company will call you to tell you about the position and arrange the assignment. If you don't hear from a employment agency right away, there may not be any opportunities at the moment, but check in weekly to show your continued interest in a placement. Once you're placed, you'll usually complete an online time-sheet and the staff agency will pay you directly. Once your assignment is over, you'll go back into the agency's pool to be considered for future assignments.

Employment Agency charge fees to companies. For candidates it is free to register and there is no charges if placed by a recruitment company into a new job.


It is always interesting to learn something new, particularly about an industry that such a significant impact on your medical assistant career or employment process. At HealthStaffing we try to regularly publish articles on the latest recruiting trends and strive to continually improve our own recruiting service delivery. We have a database of over 180,000 candidates and an extended network of referal partners. Not only do we feel confident we can delivery a great medical assistant solutions to Employers, candidates also benefit from a range of CareerController.com tools and the knowledge that 3 has a large client base actively wanting to hire the best or tech, medical assistant or clinical nurse specialist talent available in and around 5. Why not register for work or contact 3 for some amazing Medical Assistant candidates. Our experienced Canada recruitment consultants can help you. With roles involving , customer specialist contract staff in canada, 1, ca customer service representative - sales executive recruiting in canada, or customer specialist recruitment in canada 110 we may have your dream job.

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