Temporary staffing agencies assist job seekers in hiring professionals for temporary positions, permanent positions, or project-based work. They have increased in trend nowadays for both client organization and job-seeking candidates.
Potential job candidates can get a lot of benefits by maintaining connections with temporary staffing agencies. They can take advantage of those connections by direct approaching the job openings which have not been posted on social media by the client organization. On the other hand, the entities can benefit from qualified and already screened candidates by approaching temporary staffing.
A candidate can take full advantage of staffing firms by taking care of these points:
- The candidate should maintain an updated resume:
A curriculum vitae explains the job seeker’s valuable skills, expert level, and experience he has acquired. But most of the time, only analyzing a resume is not enough. To examine the expert level and a candidate’s competence for a certain job, the temporary staffing, and client hiring member must establish a test of the actual level of expertise.
Developing a portfolio means a candidate majorly make a list that may consist of his best qualities and how those skills can benefit a company? Did the candidate achieve some reward? For example, in the case of a blogger, how many shares and views a candidate has gotten. He should ensure that such kind of information has also been included in the portfolio.
- The candidate should be ready for every type of evaluation process:
Many contractual positions can be filled remotely. Do the candidate’s skills also meet the staffing agency criteria? to find the answer to this question, sometimes, the recruiter held a pre-screening interview. A pre-screen is to support the details already mentioned on the CV.
However, the main idea behind the pre-screen interview is to acquire detailed knowledge about the candidate’s personality, which can be crucial to know before establishing a working relationship with him. Suppose the office location is outside his geographic region and not easily assessable. In that scenario, a video call can serve the same purpose for the basic pre-screen requirements.
- The candidate should analyze his market value:
An applicant must know the worth of his work for the client entity. He should do necessary preliminary analysis about the prevailing compensation plans in the market against the job he is applying for. For analyzing the latest trends, he can take online assistance, discuss with friends, and use the experience to know compensation arrangement trends that would be acceptable for his type of job.
Temporary staffing may also tell an applicant about the reasonable compensation arrangements depending on his region’s work type. He should consider his payment concerns with the temps in a job interview. Unless and until he is doing work voluntarily, salaries and other engagement terms are his main concern. After all, it is the main reason he is looking for a job.
- The candidate should develop strong connections:
Candidates have to make connections with temporary staffing and clients entities as well. These connections can be worthy of seeking the job; for example, the staffing team can try to reach him directly with new jobs and better opportunities.
Recruiters also find candidates who are qualified, responsible, productive, skilled, honest, and trustworthy. All these personal qualities make a candidate look valuable. On the other hand, recruiting firms and client entities will appreciate these qualities too.
- The candidate should specify the details:
While considering a new assignment, either short or long-term, a candidate must know the specific details and discuss the main points with the temporary staffing agency. For example, if a candidate searches for a permanent position and the temp offers him temporary work. In that case, every party should recognize the demands.
Conclusion:
In recent economic conditions, the workforce is increasing with the rise in population too. This rising trend also increases the need for temporary staffing agencies. Professionals searching for jobs can get the benefits from establishing connections with staffing agencies to seek the contractual, project-based, temporary or permanent job that should be suitable for both candidate and employer. Candidates can get most of the benefits from the staffing by considering all the necessary steps.