info on employment agencies?

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

do any of you lovely folks have (or know anyone who has) recentish experience job-hunting using employment agencies? (for permanent employment, not temp agencies.) can you recommend any good/helpful agencies, or do you know any i should avoid? do people even use them any more?

i've just started looking for a job for the first time in fifteen years - by which i mean i've been at my current job that long, not that i've been out of the workforce - i'm an office assistant/admin and also do what used to be called desktop publishing, altho for all i know it's called something different now. it means i research and assemble planning studies, basically.

conversely, if your place of employment needs an admin with a bunch of years' experience in finding the one useful piece of paper in a filing cabinet, putting off phone solicitors, putting together giant (11" x 15") books, and learning how to read her boss' mind, let me know. :D

(standard disclaimer that i have a car and am not tied to places that are t-accessible.)

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[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

thank you! this is helpful! i wouldn't have thought seriously of using craiglist, but yeah, can't hurt.