How Association with Employment Agencies Can Help Your Small Business

A Home Business Article Contributed by Sharon Hill

Your Small Business May Need an Association with Employment Agencies to Hire the Right Candidates

If it's time for you, the small business entrepreneur, to bring others into your firm, you may want to create an association with a reputable employment agency or two. Not only will their assistance include composing and scheduling your employment advertising as well as interviewing and screening candidates, but some offer training for the candidates as well. Manpower, for example, offers both permanent and temporary employment services.

Manpower also offers hiring tools, more than 1800 eLearning courses and instant online ordering. The agency's online Business Resource Center gives you instant Internet access to a vast array of human resource related information. You can access white papers, news articles, web seminars and links to related associations designed to help your small business with its HR needs. You can also order Manpower background checks and assessments.

Manpower's free information covers employment law, recruiting and hiring, health and safety, human resource management, diversity and culture, compensation and benefits and other human resource materials.

To place an order for a full time, contract or temporary employee you take a few short minutes to register online, setting up instant payment by credit card or billing, and complete the order form. You have an opportunity to indicate what type of small business you have, what type of association the candidate will have with your firm - full time, part time, temporary or contract - how many folks you need to hire, and a complete description of the work they will be performing.

Your Small Business Association Can Choose Permanent or Temporary Agencies

Your small business may choose an association with temporary agencies rather than permanent, or a mix of both. Let's take a look at the difference between them.

Permanent employment agencies act as a job-finding firm for job candidates. Typically they are paid by the job candidates, although often a small or even large business, trying to fill hard-to-fill or high turnover positions, will pay the employment association's fee.

A temporary agency, on the other hand, is the worker's employer. The agency is hired by employers to find, recruit and hire temporary employees that are loaned out to the employers as needed. These employees are paid directly by the temporary agency, and may even qualify for benefits paid by the agency. Often the arrangement is that after 60-90 days of their working association with your small business should you want to hire the worker for a permanent position you can do so.

The worker leaves the employ of the temporary agency at that point and becomes your employee. Sometimes you will need to pay a fee to the agency for their loss of the employee.

Kelly Services is one very successful long-time temporary employment agency. Established in 1946, the association can help recruit for your small business in several key industries - call center, office, technical/professional, financial and accounting, manufacturing and distribution, information technology, scientific resources, merchandising and electronic assembly.

Association with Kelly Offers Your Small Business Additional Assistance

Besides bringing temporary employees to your firm, Kelly Services can assist with managerial and operational tasks. If, for instance, you have a situation such as a call center that requires continual or large volume hires, Kelly can provide on-site management, taking the ongoing recruitment tasks off your shoulders. They'll even offer payroll services.