Evaluation of services offered by private employment agencies i̇n terms of occupational healt and safety i̇n Turkey

Private employment agencies are foundations that gather people who look for a job and who look for a worker in return for a payment. These offices were unofficially active until 2004 but they execute their activities according to legal arrangements currently. The main feature of private employment agencies that differantiate them from public employment agencies is to make a profit. Private employment agencies fill an important gap in the field of mediatorship activities and training of labour. They try to minimize the time needed to fill this gap. The aim of this study is to present development of public and private employment agencies and to evaluate employment services offered by Private Employment Agencies in Turkey. The data used in this study are obtained from Turkish Employment Agency, Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services and International Labour Organization. In the application part of the study, job placement activities of private employment agencies and Turkish Employment Agency were evaluated in Antalya and the study was supported by SWOT Analysis.