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recruitment agency

 
 
noun [C] (also recruiting agency) mainly UK HR

Definition

a business that is paid to find suitable workers for other companies and organizations: a specialist/online/IT recruitment agency a health/technology/financial recruitment agency a secretarial/executive/legal recruitment agency a teacher/police recruitment agency
(Definition of recruitment agency noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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