Employment Agencies

The UK’s private sector is crucial to the growth of the economy. Recruitment agencies like Daniel Adams have a number of offices across lots of the regions seeking economic development and believe in the importance of helping people find employment, while supporting businesses to fill their roles easily. Employment agencies in the UK play a large part in the process than merely placing job adverts. Agencies provide career guidance, provide details on industry trends and knowledge, and provide invaluable information on the specialist areas they work in. Agency staff also provide assistance with CVs, completing complicated job applications and provide interview technique training. The most professional agencies have a one to one with every applicant to ensure they are steered towards the most appropriate business, that being a company that is aligned to their areas of expertise. They also have the opportunity to access job opportunities with companies that don’t publicly advertise their job opportunities, they can talk to companies they have developed good working relationships with that they think would be a good fit for both applicant and employer.

To support rising unemployment, the Department for Work and Pensions within the UK government has turned to the experience of the private recruitment sector to enable a higher level of careers support and guidance for people. Recruitment professionals from employment agencies were sourced by the DWP to provide professionals who were currently unemployed with careers advice and guidance to support their re-entry to the workforce. Recruitment Consultants are generally known to be the experts in the field when it comes to matching people with the jobs that are available and right for them. When an applicant has been unemployed for a prolonged period of time, the extra help from a consultant can be key to building the self-esteem of the applicants as well as in twisting the employer’s arm to give the person a chance. Hence, recruitment agencies play a key role in the strategic direction employed by the government to support a higher quality of employment support services.

In addition to using the internet to source applicants, employment agencies also take advantage of the local, regional, and national press to place adverts and even to find new employers. The kind of job opportunities available is so broad, covering everting from CEO and VP level to coders, Personal Assistants, and admin staff. Temporary and part time work as often now dealt with by agencies too, and by sourcing applicants from a wide range of mediums, they increase their reach to more and more applicants which helps them find the right person for each job.

Data from recent UK reports and stats suggests that employers feel comfortable that recruitment agencies can support them with short and long-term needs. In terms of future needs, 44% of employers confirmed they are looking to increase the number of permanent staff they have in the foreseeable future, and 52% already have plans in place to recruit in the next year. This provides confidence in what has been a turbulent employment market across the UK. A welcomed notion that will no doubt have employment agencies playing a key part in the recruitment of high quality, skilled and dedicated employees.