Terms for Potential Candidates

The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003 (the "Regulations") governs the conduct of the recruitment industry. As such it establishes a framework of minimum standards which work-seekers and hirers can expect. As a consequence, Recruitment Zone is required to have agreed terms in place with any person ("Work-seeker") who wishes to use Recruitment Zone to help find them either permanent or temporary/contract assignments. This document and the application form detail those terms and also include the mandatory information required by Recruitment Zone to register Work-seekers and enable it to provide Work-finding services. On completion of this form, a copy will be emailed to you for your records.

1. We are Recruitment Zone Limited ("RZL") of Ratho Park, 88 Glasgow Road, Edinburgh, EH28 8PP and "we", "us", "our" and "ours" refers to RZL and all branch offices of RZL. RZL, for the purposes of this agreement, includes any subsidiary or associated company (as defined by s736 Companies Act 1985) of RZL.
2. We generally operate as an Employment Agency and an Employment Business providing services to organisations ("Clients") looking for workers and to candidates for the purposes of finding work. We do not provide work finding services to any party before we have undertaken an assessment of acceptability to suit our market criteria and have fully researched the market and suitability to match skills that are available with those that are required.
3. You are the person whose details we receive and references to "you", "your" and "yours" includes you and any limited company that you may operate through.
4. In submitting to us your Curriculum Vitae you specifically agree that:
   1. we may, without any obligation to you, use information you have provided to us for our own assessment and research purposes as to whether your information may comply with our commercial criteria;
   2. an assessment and/or research process may involve discussion of your information with a Client, and we may therefore disclose all or part of your information to a Client for that purpose except for any organisations that you list in section 1 below.
   3. if any information is disclosed to a Client it shall be on terms that the Client shall not disclose the information to any third party and shall not use the information and that we may therefore disclose all or part of your information except for the purpose of our assessment;
   4. we shall not disclose your address or contact details to any Client;
   5. your information is true and accurate in all respects;
   6. we may retain your information on our database and process it in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 until you request that we remove it, or we are required by law to remove it, or you decline to accept our terms in accordance with clause 9
5. In the event that we decide that we are able to provide services to you we may, without any obligation to do so, inform you at that time and advise you of the terms that will then apply, which you will be free to accept or reject.
6. A signed copy of these terms must be returned to Recruitment Zone within 14 days of starting the assignment to enable set up on the system to allow payment. This completed web form counts as a signed copy.
7. Should Recruitment Zone be successful in finding potential work for the Work-seeker, the Work-seeker agrees to give Recruitment Zone confirmation (and where necessary copies or evidence of) any training, qualifications, pre-employment screening or authorisation considered necessary by the Hirer, the Client or required by law, to undertake said work.
8. Work-seekers agree to present either copies of or originals of any of the following identification documents: passport; driving licence; birth certificate (or any other document which provides evidence of the work-seekers identity).
9. In the event that you do not agree to our terms as referred to in clause 5 we shall remove your information from our database and these terms shall no longer apply.
10. These terms represent the sole and entire agreement between us and you unless and until any terms referred to in clause 5 are agreed.
11. This agreement is subject to the Laws of Scotland, England & Wales and the jurisdiction of the Scottish and English Courts.

We are obliged under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and Regulation 19 (a) of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003 (the Regulations) to verify that you are entitled to work in the UK and that you have the required proof of identity. No placement can take place until this documentation has been verified.

Please note, the production to RZL of a Work Permit does not evidence the right to work in the United Kingdom for any party other than the employer stated on the work permit. Accordingly, unless RZL is the employer agreed with Work Permits UK, the candidate has no right to work in the UK (save for the named employer).