If you are a business owner or responsible for recruitment within a company then you often need to decide if you are going to undergo recruiting yourself or enlist the help or an agency. There are advantages and disadvantages of doing both, but you can save a huge amount of time by using an agency to fill the position. An agency will be responsible for advertising the job and then they will carry out initial phone interviews. This will allow them to short list prospective candidate before they get through to you, saving you a huge amount of time. Obviously, there will be a cost involved in this but many agencies only charge if they find you a suitable candidate. Also, often the cost is less than it would have cost in your time and advertising fees should you have decided to advertise it yourself. Some recruitment agencies will advise you that you can only advertise the job through them, so think carefully before you exclusively go with one firm. If after some time they are not passing through the right sort of candidates, be sure to update them on what exactly you are looking for and where they are going wrong.