A recruitment agency’s basic function is to recruit employees on behalf of employers who are looking to fill various positions in their organisations. For candidates, recruitment agencies help them find the best job suitable to their skills and capabilities. Recruitment agencies in turn hire the best experts and professionals who are technically sound and well versed with the process of recruitment.
India is the world’s second largest country in terms of population with a very high ratio of educated unemployed people. This coupled with a tough competition all around to find a job in India is next to impossible. So, in helping candidates find their dream jobs and employers find the best suited candidates for a specific job role, recruitment agencies have come up in India across its length and breadth over the last few years and are flourishing in successfully achieving their objective.
How recruitment agencies work in India?
The working od recruitment agencies is simple, yet not easy. The first step in the whole process is the need of a client. Whenever an employer feels that there are positions vacant in the organisation and these cannot be filled in by the already present employees or there is not enough time or resources to look for candidates, the employer gets in touch with a recruitment agency. This employer now becomes a client for the recruitment agency.
The other clients for recruitment agencies are job seekers. When job seekers are unable to find the right job on their own, they approach the recruitment agencies that have with them listed several jobs from across industries.
Once the recruitment agency has its clients, it gets into the process of recruitment. For organisations that are clients of recruitment agencies, the professionals from these agencies hold discussions with the HR departments of the organisations to understand the job description and get all essential details of the job.
For the job seekers, the professionals of the recruitment agency try to understand what their skills and capacities are and what are their expectations from the job.
Now, the recruitment agencies on the basis of the vacancies from employers, search their databases and scrutinise the resumes of the job seekers to match the best people for the different roles. In doing so, the professionals at the recruitment agencies make use of different tools, strategies and techniques and then contact the suitable candidates.
On contacting the candidates, the recruitment agencies conduct an interview wherein they get to know of the expectations of the job seekers and to find out whether the candidate is fit for the job role or not.
If the candidate is a suitable one, the recruitment agencies share the contact details with the employer and help the employer throughout the recruitment process. On the other hand, if the candidate is not a suitable one or the employer is not satisfied with the skills or knowledge of the candidate, the process of searching for the right candidate begins afresh.
