Recruitment Agencies In UK And Its Types

Recruitment agencies in UK competes among each other to provide the best pool of talents as desired by the UK employers. Even at the prior recession period British companies were facing huge constraints over getting quality staffing though the fact defines that recession period underlines unemployment at the highest level and getting cheap manpower is comparatively easy at this time but still the employer’s of London were facing stringent time in getting quality manpower with right skills and aptitude; the recruitment firms in UK came as their rescue and are developing day by day to attract quality candidates for the job market.  This recruitment firms are advertising largely on the online portal to build the trust and confidence of the job seekers to get a better employment options, they are also facilitating training programmes to develop the skills and presentation of the candidates or the job seekers and building the confidence level in them to deliver their best not only in the interview but also in their work (post recruitment phase).

Different types of recruitment:

1.      Internal Recruitment-which takes place within the firm from the internal source like the current employee or the ex-employee. Though it is cost effective but it accompanies with the drawback that fresh talents or better talents entrants were overruled, and also the employee referred internally may not serve the purpose of recruitment as the skill possessed by the employee may be lacking or of sub standard. So the need for external hiring through recruitment agencies comes into the picture. Internal recruitment source are of 3 types:

i)                    Transfers

ii)                  Internal Promotions

iii)                Reemployment of ex employee

2.      External Recruitment –This is sourced from external agencies outside the organization. From the various sources of external recruitments like employment exchange, educational institutes, Lab our contractors,  advertisement on paper or electronic media, Recommendations etc the best is the recruitment agencies who are highly professional with their prime business of providing quality recruitments at the time of need.

The different types of Recruitment organization in UK

·         International multi office, multi sector recruitment agencies- This category operates worldwide with their own chain for channelizing their supply of manpower through out the world over various sectors. They widely operate at international level catering to various industrial sectors like It sector, Finance sector, pharmaceutical sector, construction sector….etc. This works as a business developer who creates various kinds of vacancies and then sources the required manpower with respective strength and quality.

·         Single office agencies –this starts as a small company operating in just one sector initially but later on increase their desks in other sectors.

·         Temp or contract agencies-these agencies supply staff on temporary or contractual basis. In construction business there is a huge need of contractual lab ours and there the need of employment is for the time being till the completion of the project, these recruitment agencies keep the database of such category of workers who provide themselves for temporary employment till the completion of the contractual time mentioned in the employment notice. The pay structure is predefined for such job.

·         Industry specific agencies-they categorically serve the specific industry in which they have specialized source of labours.