: an agency whose business is to find jobs for people seeking them or to find people to fill jobs that are open
Example Sentences
He found work as a mechanic through an employment agency.
Recent Examples on the WebOne thing that is often overlooked is working with a temporary employment agency. Expert Panel, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022 In 2011, the firm was sued by a temporary employment agency, Alternative Staffing, a company that provided workers for the factory. Joe Rubin, The New Republic, 21 July 2022 Freeman remembers taking a bus to an employment agency the day after she was released from prison. Erin Prater, Fortune, 10 July 2022 The boardinghouse also served as an employment agency, since discrimination prevented many Japanese from getting jobs on their own.Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022 Hire someone through an employment agency that screens candidates.New York Times, 18 June 2022 The new benefits have attracted more than 1 million applications, which the employment agency says are still being assessed. Salah Slimani, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022 Eventually, the employment agency did deliver the long overdue risk assessment to lawmakers.oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2021 Her son, John Wesley Coleman, opened an employment agency and later helped his mother develop Coleman Flats, a Boyle Heights apartment building for Black residents, Beasley wrote.Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022 See More