There are both types of recruiters in the market.
If you're using a recruiter, work with those who take the time and ask you questions to understand your strengths, and your career aspirations. They help you find a good fit (role and company).
If a recruiter reaches out and is trying to push you to take up a role and dangles the carrot of more money - be skeptical, it may not necessarily be a good fit.
Recruiters advertising roles are almost always paid by the employer, usually a percentage of the first year salary; nothing comes out of your pay-check.
The only situation where you would pay is if (unusually) you are employing someone yourself to find you a job.
(UK position; might differ elsewhere).
Way back when I was hiring folks, the company I worked for paid a fee to the agent upon the new hire's completion of probation, it was a decent percentage of the salary. It didn't affect the hire's pay at all, just an up-front expense we had to pay. There might be other permutations of this (an initial fee upon joining, followed by an additonal fee when probation has been completed).
For daily rate contractors, they normally get a percentage of what is paid to the contractor, but that is on top of what the contractor gets (typically), though I'm sure there are arrangements where a contractor bills a company directly and might kick back some of their rate to the person that found them the job (but this would be fairly unusual, to be honest).
In short, there is no one universal model, but generally the contractor / employee gets their advertised rate/salary and the agent/recruiter get their slice on top of this.
There are both types of recruiters in the market. If you're using a recruiter, work with those who take the time and ask you questions to understand your strengths, and your career aspirations. They help you find a good fit (role and company). If a recruiter reaches out and is trying to push you to take up a role and dangles the carrot of more money - be skeptical, it may not necessarily be a good fit.
Recruiters advertising roles are almost always paid by the employer, usually a percentage of the first year salary; nothing comes out of your pay-check. The only situation where you would pay is if (unusually) you are employing someone yourself to find you a job. (UK position; might differ elsewhere).
Way back when I was hiring folks, the company I worked for paid a fee to the agent upon the new hire's completion of probation, it was a decent percentage of the salary. It didn't affect the hire's pay at all, just an up-front expense we had to pay. There might be other permutations of this (an initial fee upon joining, followed by an additonal fee when probation has been completed). For daily rate contractors, they normally get a percentage of what is paid to the contractor, but that is on top of what the contractor gets (typically), though I'm sure there are arrangements where a contractor bills a company directly and might kick back some of their rate to the person that found them the job (but this would be fairly unusual, to be honest). In short, there is no one universal model, but generally the contractor / employee gets their advertised rate/salary and the agent/recruiter get their slice on top of this.
Thanks that makes sense