How to Use employment agency in a Sentence

employment agency

noun

• He found work as a mechanic through an employment agency.
• Your state’s employment agency may have even stricter equal-pay rules; WorkplaceFairness.org has handy links for each state.
  — Washington Post, 29 July 2021
• His mom was an art teacher, while his dad worked at an employment agency.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2024
• 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, 26 Jan. 2018
• In the Roma Norte district, 30 survivors were pulled from the ruins of an employment agency — but two dozen others were still missing.
  — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2017
• Google and LinkedIn are moving this way, as is Sweden’s public employment agency.
  — Geoff Mulgan, Quartz at Work, 23 July 2019
• The federal employment agency filed suit after the sides were unable to reach a settlement, the news release said.
  — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• On that same block were seven employment agencies, mostly offering out-of-town work.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 26 July 2019
• Freeman remembers taking a bus to an employment agency the day after she was released from prison.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 10 July 2022
• Many workers bypass the federal process and instead file complaints with their state employment agencies or file lawsuits in state courts.
  — Lauren Weber, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• Swamped by 30 million new filings since mid-March, state employment agencies are starting to catch up, although millions of people are still waiting for their first check.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2020
• Talk to an employment agency, recruiter, or headhunter.
  — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2021
• Two employment agencies named in the original lawsuit were not included in the consent decree.
  — Corilyn Shropshire, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• The company serves anyone, including returning citizens, who may be looking to go through an employment agency to get a job from a list of the agency's clients.
  — Chanel Stitt, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2021
• One thing that is often overlooked is working with a temporary employment agency.
  — Expert Panel, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• The lag is an indicator of the cooperative effort between the BLS and state employment agencies.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2019
• Indeed This job search engine aggregator pulls listings from many different job boards and employment agencies all across the world.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 23 July 2019
• As a result of the worker shortage, pay rates have gone up 10 percent to 30 percent in the past three months alone, said Phil Blair, executive officer of employment agency Manpower West.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2021
• Many middle-class and wealthy families throughout the Middle East and Asia have domestic help, often hiring them through employment agencies.
  — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Since then, however, the program and preparations to launch it by January 2023 rarely came up in lawmakers’ check-ins during public meetings with the state employment agency assigned to do that work.
  — oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2021
• Hire someone through an employment agency that screens candidates.
  — New York Times, 18 June 2022
• Each vet is assigned a career coach from ManpowerGroup, one of the nation's largest employment agencies, and the program includes interview training.
  — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2018
• The deal was virtually unknown outside of a tight circle of state government insiders and was arranged through an employment agency.
  — Tony Cook, Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2019
• When the state employment agency resumes processing applications next week, the figures could likewise rise, experts said.
  — Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• Other possible targets detailed in the note included a warehouse, an employment agency, a discount store, a church and a fast food restaurant, law enforcement officials who have access to the note told CNN.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
• The company, based in Santa Monica, Calif., has hired two in-house recruiters, in addition to working with employment agencies and offering bonuses to employees who bring on new staffers.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• In the fall of 2020, the Austrian government’s public-employment agency decided to launch a job-guarantee program there—an initiative that would guarantee work to the unemployed.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2022
• The search can include activities such as registering with a local employment agency, searching for jobs online or attending a job fair.
  — Alison Medley, Houston Chronicle, 17 June 2020

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024