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Staff-placement agencies - A necessary evil or the job searcher's saviour? Our Staff-placement Agencies articles section can supply you with information needed when working with staff-placement agencies to successfully land the perfect job. We help provide the truth, dispelling any myths!
10 points when using staff-placer's in searching for a job:
If you have never worked with a head hunter but might the next time you are looking for a job, here are some important point to keep in mind:
A head hunter would not be your personal employment agent by actively searching for a position suitable for you, specifically detailed to your needs.
Apart from corporate houses internal recruiters, there is simply two kinds: Contingency and Retained.
Contingency: No search contract and once placement has been made, payment is then received.
Retained: Receives part payment as a retainer throughout the process, as they have a contract with the company to find a suitable candidate.
Both usually prefer to provide many suitable candidates to a company for them to consider so you are more than likely not to be the only one.
A lot of recruiters are specialists in certain industries so it's usually futile to present yourself to them if your industry does not align itself with their focus.
Recruiters don't enjoy dealing with people who are looking for a change in their career. Typically they work with job-seekers who are directed in their career path.
If easy about relocation this could put you in a more successful state when making connections with staff-placement agencies.
Discuss with other people who have dealt with staff placement agencies and have benefited and refer to them when dealing with the recruiter initially.
Similar to other industries, the recruitment stage has it's collection of actors with bad reputations. It is vital to research before you deal with anyone, also applies to occasions when the head hunter contacts you.
Certainly recruiters will want to know a few things about you before they talk to their client, for example: your salary, history and expectations. Their fee is usually based on part of your first year's remuneration so they want to know what income group you are in, they are not trying to short change you or get you to lower your price.
Be responsive to a job agency and be serious when handling any dealings with them, if you do get one who is interested in you. Do not brush off the person if you are busy or ignore them because you are not sure if you want to change jobs in the end.
Growing a relationship with a recruiter requires patience, care and time. It's not a fast solution to getting a new job.
Spending three years in temporary jobs before getting into designing web's, I now know it's not the glamorous lifestyle portrayed in magazines. (oops, that's porn star's life…. But let's leave that out and move on…)
Daily routine is roughly laid out for you in a temp position
You arrive, do your job, usually made up doing the same thing several times, you leave.
Maybe you get into a larger company that allows flexible hours (for instance you work 36 hours each week, between 10am and 4pm. On a certain day, you could work to 6pm so that you can leave early on Friday at 4pm to meet friend for a drink!) This can be really handy at time.
There are several advantages and disadvantages to temporary positions though:
Advantages:
- Useful tool to gain knowledge in various areas of the business.
- No long term contract to the company.
- After temping and proving yourself to the staff placement agency, being given more temporary assignments will be easy.
- Normally hours are flexible.
- Meeting many different people so the social aspect could be positive if there are several temp workers in one company.
- If after graduating, your skills could impress many people, in a temp position.
- If you get it right to impress them, they might offer you a good permanent position.
- Wages are good and usually over £5.50, especially for what you are paid to do.
Disadvantages:
- Job security - No!
- Although you are a human being, some bigger organizations might treat the office furniture better than you!
- Sick pay - No. Well, there is providing you are off ill for a given amount of days and provide a doctor's note. You will not be remunerated for a few days off with a sniffle.
- Holidays, Benefits package - also no.
- Moving from temp job to temp job - you might be put into emergency tax, which takes 25% of your salary for the first few weeks.
- Breaks in employment on a regular basis might happen.
- Usually unchallenging and boring work but if you request more to do you can turn it from boring and dull to a learning experience.
- Your contract could be terminated without any notice as little rights are yours as a temp.
- A job agency will not normally place you if you are working for them in a temporary position, in a permanent one. The reason being that they make as much as you do from your temporary assignment!
- You will feel, over and over again, that you could do your manager's job much better than they can. (More often than not, you will be right!) But if you bring this up, your contract will be terminated (fired…… sh!)
- What began as an effort to gain experience could without warning become a career. Always strive to get your perfect job or you could become a permanent temp!
It is a mixed bunch at the end of the day!
The advantages are there for job seekers who do not have the experience required for their perfect job. A temp position can be used to help you gain experience, gain the skills and get the references.
It is beneficial for people whose perfect job is based in an office. If you can gain access at the bottom in an organisation that works in the filed you are interested in, then you are on the right track!
Temp positions can set people off in their career path and can benefit those who like flexible working hours. You must make the choice yourself though.
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