employment agency
noun
: an agency whose business is to find jobs for people seeking them or to find people to fill jobs that are open
Examples of employment agency in a Sentence
He found work as a mechanic through an employment agency.
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According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), job and employment agency scams tripled between 2020 and 2024, with the amount that consumers lost to these types of scams increasing from $90 million to $501 million during the time period.
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Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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
And he’s just getting started remaking the US government’s in-house employment agency.
—Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 23 July 2025
The women knocking on doors of the employment agencies that dot the roads of this industrial town are one sign of how India has profited from U.S. tensions with China.
—Diaa Hadid, NPR, 24 Mar. 2025
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Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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
And he’s just getting started remaking the US government’s in-house employment agency.
—Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 23 July 2025
The women knocking on doors of the employment agencies that dot the roads of this industrial town are one sign of how India has profited from U.S. tensions with China.
—Diaa Hadid, NPR, 24 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for employment agency
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“Employment agency.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/employment%20agency. Accessed 23 Sep. 2025.
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