Looking for Recruitment
Agencies to Help Find a Job?
Have you started searching for
recruitment agencies yet?
Are you stuck
in the job hunting process?
Maybe a professional
job recruiter
is what you need.
Although there are different
schools of thought regarding recruitment
agencies, I consider a recruiter as any person that is actively helping
you find a job.
When I was searching for a
job, I really didn't care if they called themselves a recruiter, headhunter,
employment
agency, staffing agency or career
advisor.
My only concern was getting the best person to help
me. Here are some things
to consider when dealing with recruitment agencies.
- For our needs, the recruitment
process involves finding a valuable career resource that
will provide assistance in our search for a job.
- You will find recruiters
and headhunters
in employment
agencies and throughout the entire job recruitment process.
- Once again, whether they call
themselves a staffing agency, recruitment agency or employment agency,
its all the same to us.
- As I suggest to all of you
throughout this job
hunting resource guide, I too did not limit myself to one career
resource completely; and neither should you.
- I
have interacted with hundreds of headhunters
(or was it recruiters) when I was actively searching
for a job.
- To simplify the process, look
at headhunters as representing many different organizations.
- And recruiters
as locating qualified people while representing a particular company.
Either way you slice it, we
are talking about a person that is
providing a service to you...as well as representing the interests of
an organization.
I'm sure many will disagree, but it really doesn't
matter for us. We are only concerned with getting a valuable career
resource to help us land a job.
Whether you choose a recruiter
or a headhunter...(or they choose you), you will at some point, go
through a recruitment
process.
My advice? Use it all. Mix in
your personal job
search strategies like networking,
contact
lists, company
websites and job
search engines.
But take this to the
bank...nobody has your best interests at heart as you do. Do what works
for you.
Key Recruitment Agency Advice
and Tips:
- Having a "person" vs. a "machine" helping you
with your job search
is always better.
- Nobody has your best interest in mind more than
you.
- Find out which side the recruiter or headhunter
is on.
- Do they
represent you?
- Or the organization?
- Don't fall for any slick job hire ads.
- I would question any
organization (or person) that guaranteed 100% job
placement.
Your job hunting process thus
far consisted of developing your job hunting approach using a getting
started strategy and a career
development plan.
Then you've determined the
best way (or several ways) to conduct an effective
job
search.
At some point you may have mixed in a recruitment agency headhunter or
recruiter to help you along. You now need to work on your resume
and cover
letter.
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