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Recruitment agency fees for electronics engineers?

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SiliconWizard:
That happened to me too.
When I eventually turned down the offer they didn't yell (ahah they should have dared just to see), but they were "extremely disappointed" and did let me know. Oh, and they also got "annoyed" because I dared to take a whole week before deciding.

intmpe:
Its been years since I used a recruiter like this. In my case it was a flat commission fee of 20 or 30k. They don't usually disclose. I had another one get me a job a few year back only to find out he was lying to me about the job description

Sometimes this is an expense and the company will try to head hunt you directly.

In more recent times I am seeing technical service providers popping up with a contract to hire model as work has become less reliable. You become an employee of the service provider and are paid with healthcare from them and then after 6 months the hope is you transfer over to the customer company as a full time employee and the service provider gets a commission. Employers like it because they can phone up and say at any time they dont need you anymore. At the same time some employees prefer it because they get to look inside the company and decide if they can move to a different one if it is shit

m98:
They get 20% of one years salary as commission? Wow, I'm in the wrong business.
Why would a company even need a recruitment agency? When you employ more than 5 new people in a year, it would pay off to just employ your own HR-person, if you don't already, since someone needs to manage the HR stuff anyways if you employ so many people.
And if it's under that, it's already not that big of a task, and you probably won't have the budget for such an expensive service.
Maybe it's the fastest way to find senior staff, as they're not actively looking for new jobs?

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