Should you pay a recruiter In Israel a fee to find you a job?

I just saw the following posts on an email list. Take a read and then I’ll post my comments and I would love to hear yours.

Someone told me about a company that’s charging people looking for work 100 NIS per month to help them find a job.

Where I come from, it’s the hiring companies that pay the headhunters, not the potential employees.

Otherwise, what’s the motivation for them to find someone a job, as long as they’re being paid by the month?!

Am I crazy? Am I missing something, or is this a ripoff scheme? Are things *so* different in this country? Is this another example of right-to-left?

Mike

Not only that but once they find you a job, you need to pay them something every month out of your salary.

Sara

Now my first feeling after reading this was to jump on the guy trying to ripoff people in their time of need, but before I do lets first see if there is some way it would make some sense.

When you are in need of a job, I’m sure you would be willing to pay 100 NIS or even 1000 NIS if someone could find you a job that you would be happy with. So if I said I will give you a job that includes a salary and benefits and all you have to do is give me a few hundred NIS is there anyone outhere that would not pay that fee?

So the question is not really on the service, but it then becomes a question of the person offering you the service. We are assuming that the guy is just looking to make some money off people to “find them a job” and not really putting any effort into actually finding you a job. 

Now lets say this guy has found 10 jobs for all 10 people that came to him in April. Let’s also say he gave you the names of those 10 people and you called each of them and they call confirmed that this guy helped them successfully get a job. Would you then still feel he is ripping you off?

So you need to put things in perspective and look into the person offering the service and do proper due diligience. Then you can come to a conclusion.

The “normal” way of doing recruiting and this is how all the big firms do it is to charge the employer a monthly fee to help find the best candidates for an open position and then they also take between 1-3 months of the persons salary as a commission. In todays current market most of these firms will drop the retainer fee and work just on commission.

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