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With so many career positions requiring specialised skills, knowledge and experience, using a recruitment agency to find just the right applicants and future employees can be a great value for the money spent. Businesses save on labour costs by outsourcing initial recruitment tasks rather than leaving the job solely up to the human resources department or hiring managers at their company. Recruiters collect valuable information regarding the position to be filled, such as the education, skills, knowledge, experience, location and availability of potential candidates, evaluate those candidates according to a secondary set of internal criteria, and even conduct the initial round of interviewing. Pricing and payment for using recruiting agencies can vary, and a very considerable choice for businesses to make is as to whether they will hire a fixed-priced service provider, or one that only receives payment when candidates are hired.

In developed nations, central banks conduct a wide range of banking, regulatory, and supervisory functions. They have substantial public responsibilities and a broad array of executive powers. Their major activities can be grouped into five general functions:

(1) Issuer of currency and manager of foreign reserves: Central banks print money, distribute notes and coins, intervene in foreign-exchange markets to regulate the national currency's rate of exchange with other currencies, and manage foreign-asset reserves to maintain the external value of the national currency.

(2) Banker to the government: Central banks provide bank deposit and borrowing facilities to the government while simultaneously acting as the government's fiscal agent and underwriter.

(3) Banker to domestic commercial banks: Central banks also provide bank deposit and borrowing facilities to commercial banks and act as a lender of last resort to financially troubled commercial banks.