Recruitment Agencies

United States

AVISO Employment Resources Online

This site offers a listing of jobs for job seekers, as well as an email alert for new jobs and a resume posting service, both for members only. Nonmembers can search job site, including over a hundred country-wide positions in museums, most curator level positions, but some additional positions such as exhibit designer are included. Jobs posted by date.
Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals

Includes a listing of job positions, allows user to post a description of him/herself for employers to read. Focused on both job seekers and employers. “SCIP provides education and networking opportunities for business professionals working in the rapidly growing field of competitive intelligence (the legal and ethical collection and analysis of information regarding the capabilities, vulnerabilities, and intentions of business competitors). Many SCIP members have backgrounds in market research, strategic analysis, or science and technology.” Site focuses more on the information technology side of LIS careers.
Dice - the leading online provider of online recruiting services for technology professionals. Job site includes basic job search option, as well as links to pages offering jobs exclusively to technicians with active security clearances and engineers, as well as links to certification information, salary information, and resume writing.
Global Info Jobs
Specializes in jobs matching service for Library and Information Professionals with global career interests.
Infocurrent

Infocurrent is an Information management staffing service, offering jobs in records management and libraries. Jobs are posted from across country. Site also has links to library associations, records management associations, and educational links.
Library Associates

Library Associates is a specialty staffing and recruiting organization. They serve candidates with backgrounds in information science, including those with Master's degrees in Library or Information Science, but also recruit archivists, writers, editors, indexers, taxonomists, and library technicians. Most ]positions involve working with information: print, digital, photographs, journals, books, manuscripts, documents, correspondence and more. Some jobs offer training, and site includes temporary positions and permanent. Site includes links to interviewing and resume tips. Jobs able to be sorted by date posted and region, but not by experience or job level (paraprofessional, professional, temp., etc.)
Morley Group

Morley Group is a human resource solutions provider in Indianapolis. Their staffing areas include library and information science. It includes a site for jobseekers including current openings of client businesses. The Morley Group has seven primary market specialties, one of which is Library Science, and supplies jobs from the American Library Association. To apply for positions, the site provides a web address to email resumes to.
Net-Temps

Net-Temps provides temporary jobs to job seekers and offers a job board for job seekers looking for temporary, contract, or direct employment. The jobs are categorized, which includes internet/new media, and Information/Technical. A keyword search for library retrieves library-related positions across the country. Job listings include position, location, and length of appointment. Site also provides email job alerts and resume posting.
Trak Records and Library

TRAK's Records and Library Division is considered a leader in Washington, DC for providing professionals who are experts in information management. Company offers temporary staffing and direct-hire placement solutions to law firms, medical organizations, corporations, and other businesses. TRAK has a division for library and records management positions, and offers professional advice as well as job searching. Jobs are in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia areas.
Wontawk: Recruitment for Libraries and Other Information Services

Wontawk offers staffing services for Libraries and other Information industries. Site posts jobs for Library and information specialist positions in the Northeast and in the Chicago area, as well as offering coast-to-coast positions, that are handled by this recruiting firm based in New York, NY. Jobs include temporary, paraprofessional, professional, and support services.
Certified Employment Group
This job site caters to both employers and applicants. Site allows user to search based on location in the Bay area of Central California, and jobs retrieved are generally paraprofessional clerical or paralegal in nature, not specifically library related. Includes a section on information management positions.

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Massachusetts

BiblioTemps: Staffing Solutions for Libraries

Site provides staffing solutions for libraries that are members of the Central Massachusetts Regional Library System. Site works with positions in archives, libraries, cataloging, circulation, granting writing, management, reference, and youth services, and finds temporary positions for library students, general unemployed, and recent graduates with MLS degrees.

United Kingdom, Ireland

Agency Central

A large, wide-ranging employment recruitment site to agencies offering recruitment services and job sites. Site has no specific library sector focus, but there is a category for Information Industry and IT/technical positions. Site allows, within each category, to search by skill or agency, or location, including cities within England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Links retrieved are generally recruitment agencies servicing those areas, and lists general types of employment offered, such as training, entry level, or 1-2 yrs experience, etc.
Glen Recruitment

London-based site dealing solely with information sector positions. Strong emphasis on library qualifications and experience and site offers a range of vacancies available. Easy to follow process for submitting CVs and registering for work. Company recruits Information Specialists, Knowledge Professionals, Business Analysts, Records Managers, Researchers, Librarians and Online Support Staff, and covers both permanent and temporary staff. They work with candidates from graduate up to senior managerial level.
Instant Library Ltd

Instant Library Recruitment

Instant Library Recruitment is an employment consultancy dedicated to the recruitment of specialist staff such as librarians, information specialists, record managers and archivists. Their job positions are separated into permanent and temporary vacancies.
Recruit Media

Recruit Media is a London-Based recruitment site. It is a specialist recruitment consultancy for the creative, media, design and media sales industries. They provide permanent, freelance and contract staff solutions to clients, both nationally and internationally, involving print, internet, and digital broadcast media. Many of the jobs are information related. Some library positions are sometimes listed, but site does not include a keyword search to single them out.
Sue Hill Recruitment

Recruitment agency offers job vacancies for information specialists, researchers, information managers, knowledge managers, librarians, records managers, archivists, vendor information providers and information sales and marketing staff. Site has information on cover letters, resumes, and interviewing. Job positions are separated into temporary and permanent positions.
Task Force Pro Libra

TFPL provides a wide range of integrated recruitment, training & advisory services to assist organizations across all sectors in meeting their knowledge, library, information, records, web & content management needs. London-based company, site provides information on training, leaning and skills, recruitment, and temporary and contract recruitment. They include different pages for public sector, private sector, non-profit, and information providers. Job openings and information available from recruitment pages, including information on clients who post jobs, interviewing and cover letter advice, and career advice.
Workstation Group plc

A UK recruitment site specialising in IT and web design work. Site has little library content evident, but offers some work in the information management area. Offers work for web designers and temporary and permanent positions in web and print publishing, Graphic Design and Production, New Media, Web Design and Coding, Powerpoint, Presentation Experts, New Business Personnel for Creative Services, and Account Managers.

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Australia

Kelly services

Kelly Services is a recruitment and staffing provider of Australia. They cover the business world from science, law and engineering to accounting and education, and also post communication/technical positions. Their site does not seem to provide many library-related positions. Site offers resume posting for members (free membership), and information on internships, career tips, and working overseas.
The One Umbrella Group

Well-known recruitment agency specializing in the information industry offering nationwide advice to employers and jobseekers in Australia. Site lists library, information, records and knowledge management job opportunities. Site also offers resume writing tips, information for overseas workers, and information on working in Australia or the UK. Jobs are searchable by Australian state, cities, and those in UK or Europe. Site has to be searched by location first, and has three job categories: Library, Records, Knowledge. Applicants have to have a right to work in Australia to apply.
Resource Options

Recruitment Services provides jobs for government, academic institutions and community groups. This specific site is focused on information and library positions. Postings include jobs in information management, research, professional library establishment and management, library marketing, and records management. Resource Options offers information management, resource establishment and redevelopment services, including planning, implementation and training. Site accepts resumes via email.
Zenith Management Services Group

A leading recruitment agency site for library employers and job seekers - comprehensive information on available employees, together with an easy registration process for those seeking work in the library and information sector. Site offers work in three job categories, including Records and Information Management Consulting & Training Services, Library Technical Services, and Information Management Staffing Services.