employment agency

noun

|Updated on: 9 Jun 2018

Examples: employment agency in a Sentence

Definition of employment agency

: an agency whose business is to find jobs for people seeking them or to find people to fill jobs that are open

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Examples of employment agency in a Sentence

He found work as a mechanic through an employment agency.

Recent Examples of employment agency from the Web

Emery is the employment program manager at the Milwaukee Careers Cooperative, a nonprofit employment agency.

— morgan hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Are tattoos taboo in the workplace? It depends on their size, content and placement — and company culture," 4 May 2018
In Bosnia, where all 23 terrorism convicts are leaving prison, the Justice Ministry said local housing, social workers and employment agencies are notified, but that there's little capacity to do much more.

— Fox News, "Europe's terror convicts gain freedom to improvised response," 11 May 2018
The chic, self-confident Marlene (Carmen Zilles) has just been promoted to managing director of the Top Girls employment agency, and there to help Marlene celebrate are a dizzying array of figures from history, art, and literature.

— don aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, "A top-notch ‘Top Girls’ at the Huntington," 26 Apr. 2018
For a number of years she was employed at Olde Windsor Bancorp in Windsor then at Birken Manufacturing in Bloomfield and finally for a temporary employment agency that provided various assignments at manufacturing facilities in the area.

— courant.com, "Janice M. Griffiths," 2 Apr. 2018
There also was reimbursement for eligible capital costs, state sales tax abatement, a non-educational property tax abatement and promise that the state employment agency will build and operate a training center.

— chris woodyard, USA TODAY, "Alabama offered big incentives to lure Toyota-Mazda plant," 10 Jan. 2018
In Brooklyn, Mary DiGangi, the human resources director at the Menorah Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care, recently asked local employment agencies to find 20 to 25 new nursing assistants and practical nurses.

— paula span, New York Times, "If Immigrants Are Pushed Out, Who Will Care for the Elderly?," 2 Feb. 2018
The only prop in this scene, which was held in an employment agency, was a box filled with sawdust, the purpose of which was obvious.

— grace kingsley, latimes.com, "100 years ago, Charlie Chaplin began work in his new studio," 26 Jan. 2018
But the Age Discrimination in Employment Act assigns liability only to employers or employment agencies, like recruiters and advertising firms.

— Anchorage Daily News, "Facebook job ads raise concerns about age discrimination," 21 Dec. 2017

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