Why Polish agencies do not charge for employment

For many foreigners, the fact that you can find a job in Poland without paying anything for it is quite surprising. Yes, that’s right, it’s free. Polish agencies do not charge for employment and there are several reasons for this. Firstly, it is forbidden to take money from a person for the fact that a recruitment agency has found a job, and secondly, Polish agencies are paid by the employer for the employee found.

Let’s give an example to make everything clearer. A Pole needs 3 carpenters for his company and he knows that it is better to hire foreigners because they can be paid less, they will work overtime and will most likely agree to work without setting additional conditions, i.e. the benefits of hiring a foreigner are obvious. A Pole applies to a Polish employment agency, where he finds three welders from Colombia. If they are suitable for him, he pays the agency for each of them, say, 2000 zlotys. The more highly qualified the specialist and the greater the demand for people in a particular profession, the more the agency will receive from the employer. For example, welders, truck drivers, and programmers are especially valued. For 1 such employee, you can get from 1000 to 10 thousand zlotys. This is how Polish agencies work.

As for many foreigners from developing countries or poor countries, they are so used to paying for everything that they simply do not believe that a vacancy can be free. Foreigners are also so used to being deceived that they no longer believe in anything, and this is very sad. I’ll tell you a secret: many Polish agencies hire foreigners to work in their offices to find their compatriots to work in Poland, because they speak their language and know the mentality of their compatriots better. But a paradox arises when such a foreigner from a Polish agency offers a job to his compatriot, he simply does not believe him – he does not believe that the vacancy can be free and does not believe that his compatriot will not cheat him somewhere. This is a sad picture. Foreigners looking for work in Poland trust Poles more than their compatriots. This is also evidenced by search statistics. For example, Ukrainians try to look for work on the Polish classifieds website olx.pl in Polish, rather than on its equivalent olx.ua in their native and understandable language.

There is also a situation when a foreigner is often unable to find a job directly with a Polish agency because he or she does not know Polish, or Polish agencies do not advertise themselves well in other countries. Foreign agencies find Polish agencies and, in their own country, charge the applicant for the information they provide: where the job is located, what the salary is, how best to travel, and guarantee that the person will be met by the Polish agency. Therefore, the foreigner pays the agency in his or her home country for the information and for the ticket to Poland. At the same time, Polish and foreign employment agencies are often not connected in any way. A foreign one simply employs a person who speaks Polish or English, finds Polish vacancies and sends a person there, having previously agreed. You can do it yourself, for free.

Therefore, you should know that Polish agencies do not charge money for employment. If you have used the services of an agency, paid money to it, and arrived at the wrong job, which was promised to you, in most cases, you should file a complaint with the agency in your home country, not the Polish agency you came to. Unscrupulous agencies often promise one job and then send you to the place where they found a fresh Polish vacancy just to avoid losing a client, while the Polish agency thinks that people know where they are going, and people are deceived in their country of origin from the very beginning. This also happens, so you should be aware of it.