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Why are so many using temporary services to recuite workers? |
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Re: Company Commitments are a Thing of the Pass. |
| Date Posted: |
07/20/2005 |
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I presently work for a temporary agency within a major company a policy that most companies are taking full advantage of. They are no longer hiring through their HR department, in which I believe that most companies are try to eliminate all together, which is an injustice to every person who is hoping to one day recieve a pension or advance in the mother company. This new practice adopted by most companies is weaking the job market. Why commit to ee when it is much better to hiring a temporary company to be totally reponsible for the poor schumck that thinks he will be hired by that mother company. Let the temporay company be responsible for hiring and firing of the ee. With the chance of advance through a temporary agency is slim to none. Most of the companies longer makes a commitment to the ee but to the temporary agency. What happen to the traditional hiring practices. Going to college and getting out in the work force looking for a job in that field is almost impossible. Companies no longer want to commit to the traditional hiring practices. The job market is weaking in more ways than one. |
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I too, work for a Temporary Agency at a major Aerospace company in Long Beach.
I agree that companies are utilizing Temp Agencies more as a HR outsourcing element, then going through the hiring process themselves.
I worked for a major Aerospace Company for 15 1/2 years, until I was laid off in 2002. I couldn't believe how much the job market had changed, since I first started working for my former employer. I noticed that not only was the job market very competitive, especially in the Information Technology (IT)field, but that a majority of companies were now utilizing Temporary Agencies for the hiring process. I investigated and questioned both these Temp Agencies, and also the companies that were contracting these Temp Agencies. I discovered why this scenario was happening. Employers were using Temp Agencies as a filtering system, as opposed to utilizing their own HR departments. Although these companies were paying a fee to the Temp Agencies for this filtering process, it was less expensive and less of an inconvenience for the company. The companies give the requirements to the Temp Agencies for a candidate, including the amount of time that the candidate will be contracted, and allow the Temp Agencies to find qualified candidates for a position. Then a qualified candidate is found, goes through an interview process with the potential employer, and is placed in the position at the company. If for some reason, the temp employee doesn't work out, all the employer has to do, is place a phone call to their contact at the Temp Agency, and the temp employee is gone by the next day. Although the employer doesn't pay any benefits to the contract temp employee, most Temp Agencies offer benefits for a set fee that is deducted from their weekly wages.
For this reason, wages as a contract employee are usually a lot higher than the individual would get as a permanent employee with benefits.
On the flip side of this scenario, if the temp employee proves to be a valuable worker, the company can then hire this individual as a permanent employee.
I know of people that have found jobs this way, when they were having trouble utilizing the conventional method of dealing directly with a potential employer.
I have used Temp Agencies for this reason, as a sort-of back door to a company that I want to work for as a permanent employee. I am currently working towards a permanent position in this large Aerospace company where I want to work.
I hope that I have not only given a little more clarification to this scenario that is happening in the job market, but to also make everyone aware that there are two sides to this coin.
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