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Employment agencies: Trying to let the Net do their work for them?
Based on some recent use, I get the distinct impression that today’s “employment” agency is becoming less and less of a “placement agency” and more and more of “let’s e-mail this job seeker a corporate website link agency.”
Lazy bastards.
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Staffing firms have to post jobs, use mass email campaigns, and draw traffic to their corporate websites because 95% of the jobs they fill are temporary and temporary to permanent positions. A typical order may be for 10-100 people at a time! Ideal candidates for these jobs are unemployed or temping, so the internet is the most effective method for the "cattle call".
Staffing specialist work their asses off and deal with $13/hour "babies" and demanding clients. The great staffing specialist are not lazy. Trust me.
One of the agencies to which I refer sends web links to stuff like $90K engineering jobs. I'd want somebody actually working to place me, not just send a web link.
From a left-liberal perspective, I have no doubt that from your perspective (I know you're employed by an employment agency, and probably one big enough to make part of your job assignment cruising blogs to write PR against "negative" blog posts), the ideal candidates are temping or unemployed, so you can drive down wages.
Great staffing specialists may not be lazy, but top corporate brass will cut corners wherever they can, I know that.
2 comments:
Staffing firms have to post jobs, use mass email campaigns, and draw traffic to their corporate websites because 95% of the jobs they fill are temporary and temporary to permanent positions. A typical order may be for 10-100 people at a time! Ideal candidates for these jobs are unemployed or temping, so the internet is the most effective method for the "cattle call".
Staffing specialist work their asses off and deal with $13/hour "babies" and demanding clients. The great staffing specialist are not lazy. Trust me.
True, but, I'll counter.
One of the agencies to which I refer sends web links to stuff like $90K engineering jobs. I'd want somebody actually working to place me, not just send a web link.
From a left-liberal perspective, I have no doubt that from your perspective (I know you're employed by an employment agency, and probably one big enough to make part of your job assignment cruising blogs to write PR against "negative" blog posts), the ideal candidates are temping or unemployed, so you can drive down wages.
Great staffing specialists may not be lazy, but top corporate brass will cut corners wherever they can, I know that.
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