why tenp angencies

Why are there temp agencies when we have the Internet with job boards? Each company has a HR department. Why don't the HR departments do their job and post the jobs themselves, with the name of the company.

I have the same beef with realtors, there has got to be a better way to do a for sale buy owner and providing access to the house.

Take out the middle man. We don't need them. Not to our benefit. I can see why democrates claim to have such a distrust of companies.

HR has other things on their plate than to spend all day recruiting and interviewing unqualified candidates. They make staffing agencies do their dirty job.

Warning in Simpsonville, South Carolina said: Why are there temp agencies when we have the Internet with job boards? Each company has a HR department. Why don't the HR departments do their job and post the jobs themselves, with the name of the company.

I have the same beef with realtors, there has got to be a better way to do a for sale buy owner and providing access to the house.

Take out the middle man. We don't need them. Not to our benefit. I can see why democrates claim to have such a distrust of companies.

IF YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT, WHO HIRES THESE STAFFING AGENCIES??? THE COMPANY DOES!!! WHO PAYS FOR THE CANDIDATE AND THE AGENCY FEE...COMPANIES??? WHY ARE IGNORANT PEOPLE ALWAYS TRY TO PUT STAFFING AGENCIES DOWN??? BLAME THE COMPANY WHO HIRES THEM! DON'T BE A HATER

Lorraine in West Sacramento, California said: IF YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT, WHO HIRES THESE STAFFING AGENCIES??? THE COMPANY DOES!!! WHO PAYS FOR THE CANDIDATE AND THE AGENCY FEE...COMPANIES??? WHY ARE IGNORANT PEOPLE ALWAYS TRY TO PUT STAFFING AGENCIES DOWN??? BLAME THE COMPANY WHO HIRES THEM! DON'T BE A HATER

Lets talk IGNORANT! Companys use these sleeze bag agency because they can FIRE their HR staff and get people who are desprate and work for nothing. On any given job the AGENCY takes up to 40% of the pay you would get. They are a joke. Anyone who can not get a job without going thru them is sorry ass!

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Temp staffing firms strength is not the to hire part, it to provide a reliable work force when a company needs extra help, but can not sustain full time hires. It is a strategic service that helps both the job seeker and the company. The job seekers get to have exposure to many firms and see which ones they like by more than just interviewing at the firm. Many quality stffing firms offer copetative benefits as well.

Reliable people that work through staffing firms tend to have excellent experiences with them, while those that have questionable work ethic will strugle as they do with full time positions.

Reason in Boston, Massachusetts said: Temp staffing firms strength is not the to hire part, it to provide a reliable work force when a company needs extra help, but can not sustain full time hires. It is a strategic service that helps both the job seeker and the company. The job seekers get to have exposure to many firms and see which ones they like by more than just interviewing at the firm. Many quality stffing firms offer copetative benefits as well.

Reliable people that work through staffing firms tend to have excellent experiences with them, while those that have questionable work ethic will strugle as they do with full time positions.

Although your statement sounds wonderful, it's simply not true. Previous years, agencies WERE geared more toward assisting candidates into successful career paths. However, they are greedy, glorified sales people. I can't wait for the day that companies decide not to use them!

I don't agree with the agencies doing the hiring for the companies; the companies have an HR department to take care of that. I think these agencies are a bunch of phony balonies; all of them need to go out of business! I've been doing the temping thing now for the past eight years; had to take some time off due to a medical condition. I am having a heck of a time getting back to work; if the company I am seeking employment with wants a doctor's note, it's OK with me. All temp agencies, cease and desist!

Cheryl K in Delaware in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania said: I don't agree with the agencies doing the hiring for the companies; the companies have an HR department to take care of that. I think these agencies are a bunch of phony balonies; all of them need to go out of business! I've been doing the temping thing now for the past eight years; had to take some time off due to a medical condition. I am having a heck of a time getting back to work; if the company I am seeking employment with wants a doctor's note, it's OK with me. All temp agencies, cease and desist!

It is expensive, not to mention time consuming for a small HR department to go through hundreds or thousands resumes for a single job. That is why they hire recruiting firms to sort through resumes, interview applicants, and only send the best of the best for interviews with their client. You have to understand that when you go into a recruiting firm and apply for a position, you are competing with an entire database of applicants. If you don't meet all the requirments for the job they chances are you are not going to be recommended for an interview with the client. The recruiter puts his/her reputation on the line for each candidate that is sent to the client, remember that.

Hiring the right people is one of a manager's most important functions. We discovered that our agency was simply posting on the job sites and passing on resumes with little or no screening. HR began doing our posting and would forward resumes to me. I zipped through the stack, did brief phone interviews, and interviewed the remaining handful. The ones we selected began as temp-to-hire. We got much better employees and saved considerable time and expense.

There is always good and bad in everything. Temp agencies are just like any other service business. They provide a service that the potential employee AND the potential employer use. If you don't like temp agencies, then don't do business with them. Why would they need to be destroyed?

There was once a time when you had to go out and purchase expensive writing paper and envelopes, pay to have your resume written by a service, then mail hundreds of resumes out in search of a decent job. This of course assumed you could get your hands on the name and address of companies that hired people with your skill set. Often times, many jobs you might be qualified for, were simply unknown to you because you just didn't know that a place called "Foxy Knee" actually did sports medicine and might need a mechanical engineer to design custom knee replacement devices.

On the other hand, a company that needed a mechanical engineer might almost have to wait for the right person to apply and that was unlikely if you were that person and they had no way of hearing about you.

Now days, temp agencies and head-hunter services provide that link. I think it is marvelous. Say I wanted to move to Seattle.. How expensive and time consuming it would be to research all the companies in that city and find a job there, not to mention the cost of flying across country to interview?

Keep in mind that in the early days of temp agencies, it WAS a case of just working one place and then another. Now, most temp jobs are "Temp to Perm" as I have seen. Another advantage is you don't even have to give notice in a lot of cases if you don't like an assignment. No need to work those last two weeks under horrible conditions... just call the agency and tell them to find someone else and they will have a new person in there the next day in most cases.

Big companies use these agencies in part because it is easier to terminate people. A temp or contract worker can be cut loose at any time for any reason. It's much easier than reducing their direct-hire workforce (plus they don't always have to provide benefits).

Why don't you stop being so bitter and take some English classes to improve your grammar, maybe that is why you can't find a job.

Warning in Simpsonville, South Carolina said: Why are there temp agencies when we have the Internet with job boards? Each company has a HR department. Why don't the HR departments do their job and post the jobs themselves, with the name of the company.

I have the same beef with realtors, there has got to be a better way to do a for sale buy owner and providing access to the house.

Take out the middle man. We don't need them. Not to our benefit. I can see why democrates claim to have such a distrust of companies.

I'm actually somewhat familiar with this issue as I work for one of those "tenp agencies."

Since the world wide web, companies don't have much trouble finding resumes and/or candidates. If anything, they have the opposite problem - it's so easy to find candidates, that almost any Google or Monster.com search will generate dozens if not hundreds of them. The time it takes to screen so many potential candidates represents an enormous cost in terms of time and missed opportunities for companies trying to fill vacancies.

Also, staffing isn't really a core competency for most organizations. Their staff and resources are (one would hope) directed towards other things.

Companies use staffing firms ("search firms," "temp agencies," what have you) to do the searching and "filtering" for them. Instead of dozens or hundreds of unqualified resumes, good staffing firms provide their clients with two or three excellent candidates per position. These candidates a) have the right skills and experience, b) fit in with the client organization's team and culture, and c) are in fact available to work when the clients need them to work.

In a nutshell, temp agencies exist because their clients need a few qualified candidates delivered in a timely fashion, while job boards typically deliver stacks and stacks of of unqualified resumes.

Temp agencies are for the birds. They hire the low lifes who will work for $6.85 and promise them the world. They just waste your time and promise you everything under the sun but never deliver.

NOV 2008: I contacted a recruiter from Volt, regarding a position that I was interested in on a popular job board. A recruiter <Edited by Host: Name Removed> contacted me and confessed that my resume was the most promising amongst the others that were submitted for this particular position. He said that he thought his customer would be very interested in me and therefore would immediately submitting my resume to them. I was pleased. Numerous days passed without a single word from <Edited by Host: Name Removed>. I contacted <Edited by Host: Name Removed>, to ask for a status update. He proceeded to tell me that the customer, after reviewing my resume, thought I was more suited for a different, broader position. He didn't say whether that other position was at the proposed customer .. or just a general "not interested" statement. Regardless, I clarified by saying that I was interested in the specific opportunity for which I was applying, despite my current employment position. All I received back was a one line reply, stating that the opportunity was no longer an option. Nothing else said .. not even in regard to future opportunities.

In my experience working with recruiters over the years, this first-time experience with Volt <Edited by Host: Name Removed> was completely pathetic. His lack of follow-through with me coupled with his apparent inability to convince the customer to - at the very least - have me come in to meet them makes this the worst recruiter experience I've had in many years.

Clearly, this man is not about building a relationship with his clientele but, more so, about earning a quick buck and moving on. I will not be working with this agency ever again; that much is certain.