Recruitment of an office tempCategory: Business
Article posted by: Jon Richards
The vetting process for the role of office temp, as carried out by the recruitment agencies across the country that have made a business out of placing people in the jobs that suit them best, is one that leans as much on the ethic of personal perception as it does qualifications and experience on the CV.
Most agencies will have practical tests for the candidate to carry out, which can include typing accuracy and speed tests, use of common computer packages tests, such as the development and building of spreadsheets and the more complex utilities of a words processing package. This will give the agency a picture of the expertise a candidate has beyond the qualifications and experience outlined on the CV, and will often fit into a computer programme itself, one designed to assess the suitability of a candidate to the specific demands of a role of employment based on that candidates test scores.
It is, among other things, a sign that human decisions in the world of employment are being eradicated and decisions on who gets the job are being made by computer programmers and their toys. But beyond this is the interview process, farmed out to agencies by companies who either have not the time, resources, expertise or experience to carry out the process themselves for a role as ultimately insignificant as an office temp.
When times are hard, the temp positions are the ones to dissolve first and all of a sudden permanent staff are forced to carry out the tasks once taken off them by the temp. Companies will give vague instructions to the recruitment agency about the quality of candidate they seek, whether or not the candidate should bare a certain amount of experience, be of a certain age etc. but, in truth, the recruitment agency are trusted to send suitable clients to the workplace as a result of interview, testing and the CV submitted with relatively little to go on other than their own expertise in the field. This is good news for recruitment, the employer and the candidate.
Posted By: Jon Richards
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