An employment
agency is a business that specializes in matching up employers
looking to quickly fill a position (usually temporarily) with
appropriately-skilled employees. Many such agencies maintain
files of individuals who have indicated an interest in temporary
employment. Some agencies also search out individuals meeting
specific requirements beyond those who are already known to the
agency; these are usually called recruiters or, especially if
the position is permanent and involves substantial professional
or management responsibility, headhunters.
Many employment agencies specialize in a particular profession
or field of business, such as accounting, banking, health care,
or secretarial services; this benefits both employers and
potential employees by limiting the field of search. Some
agencies are non-profit enterprises, but most (whether for
profit or not) charge employers a percentage fee for their job
placement service. The industry is therefore controversial, as
some people see it as tax on the poor who are not in position to
develop an able Social network.
An employment agency is often called temporary agency, and often
there is a distinction between the two. Employment agencies are
often contract job placement companies that find permanent jobs
for someone and receive a commission after the hire. Temporary
agencies specialize in finding strictly temporary jobs for a
variety of tasks (usually clerically related) with the advance
knowledge that the job will be short term. Sometimes a temporary
agency places an employee on a long-term assignment, usually
after the person has worked in their temporary position for a
great length of time. The agency then receives a commission.
Typically a temporary agency has a standard set of tests to
judge the competence of the secretarial or clerical skills of an
applicant. An applicant is hired based on their scores on these
tests, and is placed into a database. Companies or individuals
looking to hire someone temporarily contact the agency and
describe the skill set they are seeking. A temporary employee is
then found in the database and is contacted to see if they would
be interested in taking the assignment.
When a temporary employee agrees to take on an assignment, he or
she receives instructions pertaining to the job. Information is
provided on the correct attire to wear, hours of work, the wage
to be paid, and who to report to upon arriving. If a temporary
employee arrives to a job assignment and is asked to perform
duties not described to him or her when accepting the job, he or
she is expected to call the agency and speak with a
representative. If he or she then chooses not to continue on the
assignment based on these discrepancies, there is no
penalization professionally.
It is up to the temporary employee to keep in constant contact
with the agency when not currently working on an assignment; by
letting the agency know that they are available to work they are
given priority over those who may be in the agency database but
have not made it clear that they are ready and willing to take
an assignment. A temporary agency employee is the exclusive
employee of the agency, not of the company in which they are
placed. The temporary employee is bound by the rules and
regulations of their direct employer, even if they contrast with
those of the company in which they are placed. For example, if a
temporary employee is asked by the company in which they are
placed to lift a heavy box, they may respond "I am sorry, my
agency does not allow me to perform that task. I wish I could
help. Please feel free to contact my supervisor there for more
information."
Temporary agencies usually are paid approximately twice the
hourly rate of the actual payment given to the placed employee.
For example, if a secretary is temporarily placed by an agency,
the agency charges the company $15.00 an hour and gives $7.50 an
hour to the placed employee.
Temporary employees are in a constant state of employment flux
because they are never guaranteed consistent employment, nor are
they assured of a solid start or finish date for their
assignment. A temporary employee's assignment can be ended at
any time, even in the middle of its projected time frame,
without explanation. This causes potential turbulence in cases
of discrimination, which is usually handled internally between
the employee and the agency.
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