price fixing is about setting high prices on goods/services.
It is not about the unfairness of client refusal to pay more than they want to.
Should we contractors do the same? Complain about clients refusing to pay us more per day?
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Originally posted by oracleslave View PostIs the point not that they are stopping DA from earning a better living through unfair and possibly illegal/anti-competitive behaviour?
What if companies refused to use agents at all and required direct contact with their HR, would that be anti competitive?
Anti-competitive *might* be using exclusively dominant recruiter who'd use its market position to gain unfair advantage.
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Originally posted by AtW View PostY
Anyhow, my question to you yet again - what makes you think companies owe you a living?
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Postwhat are you on about?
btw, from this I note that clearly you were not in it in order to help find poor employees much better employer.
Anyhow, my question to you yet again - what makes you think companies owe you a living? They can choose to use your services or not surely, and if they offer 5% margin and it's not enough for you then you could do something else.
Like real head hunting for example.
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Originally posted by AtW View PostWhat makes you think companies owe you a living? If agents were providing really valuable services in that case then companies would continue using them. If you actually get them people who make money add value, then there is problem paying you a %-tage of that. Simples?
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Originally posted by AtW View Posthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_search
In IT non-executives can be head hunted - usually they are top people (among their peers), some of the main signs of real head hunt are:
a) small number of people - very high value
b) people are often named, ie - head hunt Bill Gates or limited to people who are top in a given field (up to agent to find them)
I doubt you do head hunting
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Postcheaper to get the OFT to do it
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
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Originally posted by AtW View PostWhy won't you ask it to your company lawyers? Whilst at it ask them why their charges are so high across most lawyer firms...
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Originally posted by AtW View PostThe final decision on how much to pay agents rests with the company - they might just refuse to pay anything and invite people to apply direct: they won't owe agents a living, in fact if the system functioned correctly in the first place there would be no need for agents in the first place. They would only be feasible for high value head hunting jobs, ie: £1 mln+.
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Originally posted by oracleslave View PostNo matter how much coercing, begging, pleading, crying promising an agent does surely the decision rests with you as to whether you take a job or not?
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Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostIndeed
But without the agents how many would have to make that decision in the first place?
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Originally posted by oracleslave View PostNo matter how much coercing, begging, pleading, crying promising an agent does surely the decision rests with you as to whether you take a job or not?
But without the agents how many would have to make that decision in the first place?
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