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Setting up my own company to avoid having to go through an agency?

  • 10-11-2010 11:13PM
    #1
    MrMiyagi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭


    Hello,

    I am currently employed in a company through a recruitment company.

    The recruitment company take a considerable chunk of my weekly income.

    I have heard that the best way around this is set up my own company or to arrange another recruitment company at much more favourable rate.

    Has anyone done this before?

    Thank you.


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  • #2
    Martron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭Martron


    get the company to hire you direct


  • #3
    KarlDrake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭KarlDrake


    MrMiyagi wrote: »
    Hello,

    I am currently employed in a company through a recruitment company.

    The recruitment company take a considerable chunk of my weekly income.

    I have heard that the best way around this is set up my own company or to arrange another recruitment company at much more favourable rate.

    Has anyone done this before?

    Thank you.

    I'm sure lots of people have done it before but haven't you agreed to work for a certain duration for a certain rate?

    Perhaps at the end of the contract you can renegotiate, but there may be other issues at play, perhaps an agreed percentage between the end employer and the agency?
    I'd be amazed if the agency haven't agreed in writing with the end employer that they can't hire you directly or through another agency for a period after the end of the contract.
    If you feel the percentage charged by the agency is unethical or if you feel comfortable in getting some of that chunk for yourself, then perhaps speak to the end employer and the agency about it.

    However, the employer and the agency made a deal with each other.
    You made a deal with the agency.

    If you're close to the employer and get on well with them, perhaps you should level with them as to what your take home is. They may not know that figure or it may be higher than what they had been led to believe.

    If the latter is the case, then they can legally break the contract and hire you directly with the rate somewhere in the middle. You get more, they pay less and an unethical agency gets its just desserts.


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