When we go to job search pages, we can often see ads in capital letters "from the direct employer." Who is the direct employer? And then who is not direct? What risks and troubles await applicants who fall into the hands of these same “indirect” employers? And then where to look for direct? All of this is outlined in this article.
Who is the employer and who can he be
An employer is a company (that is, a legal entity) or an individual entrepreneur (individual) who accepts you for a certain position to perform a certain type of work. The relationship between the employee and the employer is fixed by the state in the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. The employer must enter into an employment contract with the employee. He is responsible for paying his subordinate wages, is obliged to pay insurance and tax contributions to the appropriate authorities.
Direct employers
If the direct employer is an organization or an individual entrepreneur who directly takes you to a certain position for the performance of certain tasks on his part, then who are these "indirect employers"? In other words, an indirect employer is an intermediary between a person offering a vacancy and a person who is ready to apply for this vacancy. These are organizations that offer their services in the field of recruiting, personnel services and search. Their activities are paid according to the laws of a market economy. Moreover, if it is usually advantageous for employers to contact such agencies, then an ordinary person who wants to find a job is often loser in contact with such personnel officers.
Where to look for direct employers
At the moment, a lot of quite convenient ways to find work have been created. This process is no longer accompanied by the buying up of numerous newspapers with vacancies at nearby newsstands, walking and collecting ads posted on power poles is also the last century. To search it is enough to have an Internet connection and equipment with which you can access the site, whether it be a personal computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet.
Yes, even if such equipment is not available, you can go to an Internet cafe and sit for a reasonable fee for as long as you need, looking for a suitable job. But where direct employers hid, it is already more difficult to answer. More than half of the vacancies are posted on sites through third parties. Sometimes it’s really impossible to understand who is behind the sign about your dream job until you call and go for an interview. Not every indirect employer advertises this. And sometimes it becomes known that you fell into the hands of recruitment agencies, only after you have already completed the questionnaire and now you are asked to pay for the provided job search services.
Risks in dealing with intermediaries
Work, the direct employer of which turned to the personnel department, may not differ at all from other options. There are many recruiting agencies that operate completely legally without deceiving their customers. The disadvantage of contacting them in this case is the payment for their services. In most cases, their earnings are a percentage of your first salary. And this percentage is quite high, almost up to 40%. Of course, there are companies with a fixed rate, but no one will give you a guarantee of a successful search, and the contract is drawn up in such a way that you just have nothing to complain about.
Work from direct employers relieves you of the obligation to pay someone these commissions and agency interest.In addition, the direct employer will protect you from the possibility of really encountering scammers. Such situations are common today. You are promised an overwhelmingly seductive workplace, but for this you need to pay for information services, namely providing the address and phone numbers of the future employer. You pay for them, go to the indicated place, and find an empty office or a completely different organization in which they don’t understand at all what they are talking about. In the future, most likely, you can’t find your dubious benefactor.
