Posted by: HappyFace May 23, 2008
Lab assistant or Lab technician?
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EK,It is good that you have some research experience. Is this experience on-campus or off-campus??Either way, it is good for you and will help you find jobs fast, although off-college in better.Anyways, these recruiters are government licensed firms that match qualified applicantswith employers. And you are right, they will "hook" you with employers. The reason that goingthrough them is better (for fresh graduates with little or no experience) is because they havecontacts with a lot of companies and are aware of jobs at different places. Most of the positionsthey offer are like "contract to hire", which means you start with a company as a contractor(meaning you will start not as an employee of the company but an employee of the recruiter). After few months, usually three months (and ofcourse it depends on the company), the company will hireyou and make their employee; at this point, you will no longer be the recruiter's employee.Companies do this because, -you are fresh out of college with little or no experience and they are not sure if youhave qualified skills to work with them. They will evaluate you for some period of timeand if they find you good, they will make you their employee and keep you providingall company benefits. As a contractor you will not have company benefits and will onlyhave recruiters' benefits, which are not as good as company beenfits. -companies will not have the headache of checking your criminal background check, drug screening,check your Employment Status, degree etc-company do not have to worry abt providing any of their benefits to their contractors, whomay or may not continue working with them for a long period of time.Therefore, it would be better to go through recruiters. I also started working through a recruiter. Why don't you send me your resume at my Sajha mail box. I can forward that to my recruiters and see how it goes from there.Good Luck to you.
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