Ask most recruitment-adjacent businesses why they don't charge candidates a fee and you'll get a version of "it's the right thing to do." That's true, but it's an incomplete answer, and partner agencies deserve the fuller one, because this policy affects your liability, not just our conscience.
Who actually pays
Sourcing, screening, medical clearance, and pre-departure training all cost money. In our model, those costs are built into the wholesale agreement we sign with your agency, not deducted from a candidate's future wages or collected as an upfront fee before departure. The economics don't disappear; they just sit on the correct side of the transaction.
What this prevents
A candidate who paid a large recruitment fee, whether to us or to a sub-agent somewhere in an informal chain, arrives carrying debt tied directly to the job. That creates pressure to stay in a placement regardless of how it's actually going, and pressure to accept irregular arrangements to pay the debt off faster. Neither outcome is good for the household, the worker, or the agency that placed them. Removing the fee removes that specific pressure at the source.
What this means for your compliance file
GCC recruitment regulation has moved steadily toward scrutinising fee structures across the entire supply chain, not just the receiving agency's own conduct. If your agency's supplier charges candidates informally, that exposure can trace back to you even when the fee was collected somewhere upstream you didn't directly control. Working with a supplier that doesn't charge fees at any point in the pipeline closes that specific gap in your own file.
How we verify it, not just claim it
This isn't a policy we state and hope holds. Fee-related questions are part of every candidate's intake interview, and any indication that a fee changed hands upstream, from a village-level recruiter or informal intermediary, removes that candidate from our pipeline rather than simply noting it and moving on.
If your agency's own compliance review wants to see how this is documented on our side, reach out to our corporate sourcing desk and we'll walk through it before you commit to a partnership.