Why Do You Need a Recruitment Agency? Can It Be Promising?

This is the most common question raised by many during this season of the year! Why? It’s the hiring season!

Here comes the autumn and both job seekers and recruiters are on the spree for hunting the best. So, if you are a job seeker or a recruiter, this is the peak time to remain alert and vigil, so that you don’t lose out on your deserving potential.

But what is the right strategy? How to track down the best? How is it possible to compete in the competitive job market? How to reach the right talent? These are some of the vital questions asked in this perspective and the single answer to this is “a recruitment agency”.

Contrary to the stereotypic tradition of job hunting via newspaper or the recent one “a job search site”, how promising is this one? How authenticate are the details provided by these agencies regarding any corporate company? How can they be reliable? And most importantly, why should one opt for registering with a recruitment agency?

For answering these questions, let’s start from the grass root level. What is exactly a recruitment agency? From where did the concept of these “middle men” arise in recruitment process? Well, here it goes:

Recruitment agency (they are also known to be career agency/recruitment portal) is a potential resource, usually online, which acts as an intermediate (or in a layman’s term “middle men”) between the recruiters and the job seekers. Though the exact reason is still unknown, but the birth of this concept can be termed as “business serendipity”. It’s simply another different business initiative that was started keeping in mind the turbulent employment market. When technology has crept within each and every aspect of human life, there was a vehement need for making the basic human requirement technically sound. And hence there emerged a group of benevolent people, who made it a mission to constrict the vastness of recruitment market.

Now coming to the vital aspect of this topic, how promising are these recruitment agencies? These agencies analyze and scrutinize the talents and provide a detailed description of suitable employers. Information regarding the company, like branding, company assessments, facilities and such things. Unlike the traditional method of filling job applications as and when any vacancy arose and then going through the entire selection procedure, which was quite tiresome and time consuming, these recruitment agencies also maintain a database of prospective candidates and inform them when the career appropriate job vacancy comes up.

Since their inception, recruitment agencies have changed the face of the employment market. The recruitment process has become more transparent, easier and justified too!

There are a number of recruitment portals but one of my favorites is the Strategic Search Corporation, Chicago, IL. While searching intensely for a genuine agency, I came upon this company. You can call it “Serendipity” as well! The reason why I like them is they helped me to get through the odds of the R&D sector. This is a 24 year old recruitment corporation with profound expertise in the technical, scientific and engineering employment sector. With a strong clientele pool of Fortune 500 Companies like Wrigley Company and Illinois Tool Works, it has strong investigative skills and correctly identifies the right talent.