How to Use employment agency in a Sentence

employment agency

noun
  • He found work as a mechanic through an employment agency.
  • His mom was an art teacher, while his dad worked at an employment agency.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2024
  • On that same block were seven employment agencies, mostly offering out-of-town work.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 26 July 2019
  • Hire someone through an employment agency that screens candidates.
    — New York Times, 18 June 2022
  • 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
  • Freeman remembers taking a bus to an employment agency the day after she was released from prison.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 10 July 2022
  • One thing that is often overlooked is working with a temporary employment agency.
    — Expert Panel, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Google and LinkedIn are moving this way, as is Sweden’s public employment agency.
    — Geoff Mulgan, Quartz at Work, 23 July 2019
  • Two employment agencies named in the original lawsuit were not included in the consent decree.
    — Corilyn Shropshire, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Scott was born in Dublin, sandwiched between two sisters; his mother is a teacher and an artist, and his father works at an employment agency.
    — Zing Tsjeng, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Chinese-language employment agencies and attorney offices pepper the core city blocks.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
  • 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
  • When the state employment agency resumes processing applications next week, the figures could likewise rise, experts said.
    — Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Orengo quit high school following the hurricane, and through an employment agency, was hired to work at a chicken processing plant in Kansas.
    — Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Instead, the foreign firms pay the salaries in hard currency to government employment agencies— which pocket the money and pay the Cuban workers in pesos.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 23 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The source told Schofield that the candidates would go through a couple rounds of interviews with the employment agency before signing a non-disclosure agreement.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The company also agreed to work with a local employment agency to recruit minority job applicants and to hold one or more job fairs for new hires for the data center, the release said.
    — Claire Osborn, Austin American-Statesman, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Other sectors that can benefit from a Harris win include homebuilding as well as child care and employment agencies, Garthwaite added.
    — Brian Evans, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Overcrowded labor market for migrants A block north of Fatty Ding’s, an employment agency is like a revolving door.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
  • Instead, the company argued that the employment agency Atrium, which a union source argued served as a payroll company in this case, was the workers’ employer.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
  • 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
  • The lag is an indicator of the cooperative effort between the BLS and state employment agencies.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2019

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