Find out the company hiring and apply directly to the company. Don't go through a 3rd party agency if you can avoid it. It gives the company a massive saving and a great incentive to hire you.

If you were made aware of the position through a recruiter or other 3rd party agency, you should go through them. We have the luxury of being in an industry that recruits heavily through 3rd party agencies. Going through these agencies when job seeking will continue to make their business viable so they may provide their services in the future.

A good head hunter can make your job search easy by exposing you to a variety of companies and doing the initial work to get into the interview process