Employment agency

An organization that connects job seekers with employers to fill vacancies through referrals, placement, or temporary staffing.

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Recruitment: The process of attracting, assessing, and selecting people for jobs. Employment agencies carry out recruitment for employers or help candidates find openings.
Temporary work agency: An organization that supplies workers to client businesses for limited assignments. This agency type hires or assigns workers to meet short-term staffing needs.
Direct hire: A hiring arrangement in which an employer recruits and employs a worker without an intermediary employing them. It contrasts with agency placements where an intermediary may employ or supply the worker.
Labor market: The system through which workers offer labor and employers seek to hire them. Agencies operate between labor supply and employer demand.
Contingency recruitment: A recruitment arrangement in which an agency is paid only when its candidate is hired. This fee model ties payment to a successful placement.
Executive search: A specialized recruitment service that identifies candidates for senior or hard-to-fill roles. Agencies use targeted searches when ordinary applicant flows are insufficient.
In-house recruitment: Recruitment conducted by an employer’s own staff rather than an external agency. Employers may use internal recruiters instead of outsourcing vacancies.
Labor market segmentation: The division of a labor market into groups of jobs with different pay, security, or advancement prospects. Agency channels can concentrate workers in particular kinds of jobs or conditions.
Retained search: An executive-search arrangement in which a client pays an agency to conduct an exclusive, staged search. Some agencies use this model for senior or specialized vacancies.
Nursing agency: A staffing organization that places nurses in temporary or permanent roles. Healthcare agencies match qualified nurses to facilities with staffing gaps.