Entities that have employees whose services they can hire out to other companies are called staffing agencies. They provide workers out to other companies temporarily. They are different from placement agencies, who act as agents who act to identify, hire, and recruit permanent employees for organizations, and for which they charge a fee.
A client company specifies the number of workers that they require temporarily, and the positions and work they are needed to do. The staffing agency then arranges these temporary workers from the employees that they have available, and arranges for them to report to the client. Clients can specify the rates for each worker and negotiate rates that are acceptable both to the staffing agency and the client company.
A staffing agency will usually pay the employment taxes, Social Security, Mediclaim and other benefits that are mandatory for workers, and the client company will not be responsible for this. It is presumed that the negotiated rates cover for this. By approaching a staffing agency, a company can get the required employees quickly, and without having to go through the process of recruiting. The staffing agency will have already ensured that the employees whose services they outsource are qualified and trained to perform the work they are required for. Most staffing agencies will also run credit checks, background checks and other tests on the workers they employ, and this ensures that the employees they hire out are those that come without any problems.
You can work for a staffing agency, as long as you have the required training, qualification, and experience for the jobs that you will be expected to carry out. You will need to register with the staffing agency and agree to their terms of employment. Your services will be hired out to other companies and you must be prepared to work for small periods of a couple of months or a couple of years. During the work that you carry out for the company too which your services have been hired out, you will have to act like a regular employee of that company.
Many staffing agencies specialize and have as employees, workers who have the skills that the client companies may need. Once the agency decides that you have the sort of expertise that their client companies require, they will put you on a panel, and then search for companies that require this expertise. These staffing agencies have a lot of connections to industry and will often know about even job openings that are not advertised.
Staffing agencies like On-Site Staffing in Milwaukee will focus on the long term needs of both their clients and their candidates, and quite often this can prove to become full-time employment for them. They can come up with several different solutions to the staffing requirements of any company, and even act to identify qualified individuals for recruitment into the client company. It enables the client company to have their work carried out by trained personnel, hired temporarily from the staffing agency until they are in a position to arrange their own recruitment.