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How does a staffing agency charge a job seeker for their services?

This one may be a trick question! Legitimate staffing agencies never charge job seekers for placement services. That's right, every placement fee paid to a staffing agency is from the hiring company.

In many countries such as Canada, it is illegal for a recruitment or staffing agency to charge candidates for job placements. These regulations do not include fees for resume writing or career coaching, for example. The bottom line is, a job seeker never pays money to be considered for an open position with a staffing agency or their clients.

"They don't. All placement fees are paid for by the client and not the candidate, and I believe this is true for Kelly Services as well. In my current agency, we charge the client between 18-25% of the candidate's first year's salary. This fee structure means that if the candidate's agreed-upon salary is 100K, then our fee would be 18-25K. Again this is never paid for by the candidate. I also understand that different regions have various fee structures. However, I believe that a client should always pay the agency placement fee. No financial burden should fall on the job seeker."

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