Employers

Employers hire recruitment agencies to help them fill temporary or hard-to-fill positions.

Employers choose to use a recruitment agency for a variety of reasons:

• they don’t have enough staff or time to deal with the recruitment process
• they are recruiting for a new type of job for which they have no expertise
• they want to hide recruitment activities from competitors

Employers pay recruitment agencies for their service. The cost cannot be transferred to you, the job seeker, to pay. Employers and recruiters agree on a wage for the successful candidate and the recruiter’s portion included in this amount.

Note: If there is a strike or lockout in progress, the recruitment agency should be notified. Recruitment agencies should not knowingly send a worker to replace an employee who is on strike or locked out without telling the worker.