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What is a Staff Agency?

A staffing agency is a company contracted by an employer to help with its recruiting needs. Staff Agencies find temporary staff to fill all kinds of jobs, from contract staff to executive recruitment in a number of career fields. Whether a organisation needs Accounts Clerk, Accounts Payable/Receivable or Collection Agent contractor, a employment agency can source the right staff. Recruitment Company tend to have 3 primary areas of focus with many also specializing by industry:

  1. Permanent Recruitment
  2. Temporary Staffing
  3. Executive Search

According to [American Staffing Association] in the America over 2 million people are employed by employment agency, and recruitment company hire 8 million temporary staff every year.

Function of a Staff Agencies

Staff Agency not only bring expertise to the hiring process but they remove the time and administration work out of the recruiting process. Hiring a worker can cost 6 to 19 percent of the role’s salary and take 28 to 41 days on average to fill.

A recruiter handles the search process and matches up an employee with the job in question, lining up potential candidates who interview with the operations.

If a businesses needs temp staff, it uses a recruitment company. Staff Agency provide skilled employees to work on a temporary or contract basis. Often these roles are known as ‘temp to perm’ positions, whereby the temporary role may lead to a permanent position if the worker and recruitment company are a good fit.

For job seekers, an recruitment agency can be the ticket to getting that full-time accounts clerk or accounts payable/receivable role. Recruiters can open doors to positions that may not be easy to find on your own. Recruitment Agency allow you to try out different enterprises and industries, whether you are looking for temporary, part-time, contract or full-time roles.

In order to register with or work with a employment agency, you'll have to do one or more the following steps:

  1. Find and register with one or more recruitment agency
  2. Fill out an online application
  3. Upload your resume
  4. Interviews and possibly assessments (if short-listed for roles)

If you secure temporary or contract work, the staff agency will be the ones hiring you. When a temporary position is a match for you, the recruitment company will call you to tell you about the position and arrange the assignment. If you don't hear from a staff agency right away, there may not be any opportunities at the moment, but check in weekly to show your continued interest in a placement. Once you're placed, you'll usually complete an online time-sheet and the recruitment agency will pay you directly. Once your assignment is over, you'll go back into the agency's pool to be considered for future assignments.

Staff Agency charge fees to companies. For candidates it is free to register and there is no charges if placed by a recruitment company into a new job.


At Staffing we recognise that a commitment to service Accounts Clerk excellence can never waiver and needs to be as much about an organisation’s culture as a commitment to its stakeholders. Staffing has built a reputation for great recruit service and fantastic talent, the envy of many of our competitors. Call us today to discover how we can help turn your accounts payable/receivable challenge into a solution! With a wide range of hiring services we look forward to assisting you, whether you were referred to us or searched for our accounts payable temp agency, temping agencies in united kingdom, credit controller temp agencies, credit controller temp agency staffing or united kingdom temp credit controller recruitment online.

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