Job Consultancy Service Providers : Good, bad or ugly?

There is a lot of confusion about Job-consultancy Service Providers.
In this article, we will discuss about this services, their advantage, the disadvantages and a lot of other issues.
The objective is not to give judgment which is obviously not possible too considering various factors.
Let us start our discussion.

Some more information about Job Consultancy Service Providers : Good, bad or ugly?

Important : These are some basic guidelines and tips.


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A Placement Consultancy or a Recruitment firm acts as a link between the companies that offer jobs in various areas and the job-seekers. They also help reduce the clutter and streamline the manpower hunting for the companies no matter how big or small. They act as a guide to the job-seeker to guide them with their career prospects.
Many companies hire these recruitment firms or agencies to help them find the right qualified candidate to join their company. Job seekers in turn, contact these recruitment firms to apply for the right job. Today, these agencies have expertise in this domain and offer specific solutions for different needs and purposes.
  • They work for large, medium, small-scale companies.
  • They have a huge database of job vacancies as per salary offered, experienced or fresher, responsibilities, industry-wise etc.
  • Resource-This is built over a period of time. They refer these databases and contact the registered candidates.
  • Job seekers contact these agencies through different mediums such as phone calls, emails, direct walk-ins and get themselves registered.
  • Then the wait begins for the candidates to get calls from these agencies. Job seekers highly rely on these agencies for the interview calls.
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    This is a very big question. Job consultancy work is a service. When someone gives some services to others, some charges would be there, that is simple to understood in case of one service provider to one customer.
    This is important to understand now that who is serving / providing service to whom.
    In job-consultancy service, this is not ONE to ONE deal.
    A job-consultant is providing services to companies (employees) in getting the staff and,
    at the same time, it is providing services to candidates (job-seekers) in getting a job / better job.

    So, question is still there. Who will pay for this service?
    There can not be a plain answer. As we have seen that both are getting services from Job-consultants.


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    We think, this topic is a very important one and needs more discussion. Hence we will keep it open always.