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Recruitment Agency Fees For Job Seeker

  • 04-10-2012 10:44pm
    #1
    theroomisonfire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I am currently using a recruiter (Brightwater) to help find a new role. I just want to be sure that they can't charge me as the jobseeker if they help or find me a job.

    The below link seems to suggest that they can't charge me for the services http://www.nrf.ie/about.asp?p=frequently-asked-questions-about-recruitment-in-ireland-

    I might be moving to London so if I use a UK recruiter, does the above also apply.

    Thanks in advance


Comments

  • #2
    tatli_lokma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭tatli_lokma


    The employer pays the recruitment agency the fee for finding them a suitable staff member. The jobseeker never pays this.


  • #3
    Dublintigger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Dublintigger


    As a jobseeker you do not have to pay fees to get a job - the employer does. This applies in any situation and in any country. You are after all the vendor - you are selling your expertises.

    Hope this helps! And good luck!

    Tigger! ;)


  • #4
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,295 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Dublintigger wrote: »
    As a jobseeker you do not have to pay fees to get a job - the employer does. This applies in any situation and in any country.

    Ahh ... I do not think this is correct. No time to go Googling for examples now, but am sure that agents do charge jobseekers fees in some countries.

    That said .. we cannot give legal advice here ... and we most certainly can't give it about other countries laws!


    And OP, it's generally a very bad idea to rely on one recruiter.


  • #5
    Dublintigger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Dublintigger


    JustMary wrote: »
    Ahh ... I do not think this is correct. No time to go Googling for examples now, but am sure that agents do charge jobseekers fees in some countries.

    That said .. we cannot give legal advice here ... and we most certainly can't give it about other countries laws!


    And OP, it's generally a very bad idea to rely on one recruiter.
    Hi Mary
    Yeap it does appy to all countries not just to european ones. The seeker does not pay - only the finder.
    Tigger!


  • #6
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    In the UK, you don't pay the agency for finding you a job. They get their fees from the employer.

    HTH


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  • #7
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,295 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Dublintigger wrote: »
    Hi Mary
    Yeap it does appy to all countries not just to european ones. The seeker does not pay - only the finder.
    Tigger!

    Link please ...


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