Effective date: July 29, 2026
This Recruiting and Staffing Services Agreement describes the standard terms under which Elevated Career Services (“ECS”) may provide retained, contingent, direct-hire, contract-recruiting, talent-mapping, recruitment-process-outsourcing, or related hiring support. It is not a substitute for the signed proposal, statement of work, job order, or staffing agreement required for a specific engagement. If documents conflict, the most recently signed engagement document controls.
1. Engagement and scope
No recruiting engagement begins until ECS and the client approve a written scope, fee, payment schedule, search ownership, assigned roles, guarantee or replacement terms, and any required deposit. ECS may decline, pause, or close a search when requirements, funding, authority, or working conditions are unclear.
2. Client responsibilities
The client will provide accurate job requirements, lawful selection criteria, compensation information, decision-makers, timely feedback, and authority to recruit. The client remains the employer and is responsible for interviews, background checks, accommodations, classification, payroll, immigration, equal-employment compliance, hiring decisions, and workplace conditions.
3. Fees, referrals, and candidate ownership
Fees and payment triggers are defined in the signed engagement document. A candidate introduced by ECS may not be bypassed, transferred to an affiliate, or hired through another channel to avoid a fee during the referral-ownership period stated in that document. The client must promptly disclose prior documented contact with a referred candidate.
4. Candidate information
Candidate information is confidential, may be used only for the approved opportunity, and may be shared only with personnel who need it for the hiring decision. The client may not scrape, resell, retain beyond a lawful business need, or use information for unrelated marketing. ECS does not warrant information supplied by a candidate; the client must independently verify qualifications.
5. Guarantees and outcomes
No replacement, refund, exclusivity, placement, time-to-fill, or candidate-volume commitment applies unless it is written in the signed engagement document. ECS does not guarantee that a candidate will accept, start, remain employed, receive a clearance, or meet performance expectations.
6. Confidentiality, non-solicitation, and publicity
Each party will protect confidential business and candidate information. Neither party may use the other party’s marks, name, testimonial, or relationship publicly without permission. Any contractor non-solicitation or non-circumvention obligation must be stated in the signed engagement document.
7. Term, termination, and liability
Either party may end future work as allowed by the signed engagement document; accrued fees, confidentiality duties, candidate-referral protections, and payment obligations survive. To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for consequential or punitive damages. ECS aggregate liability is limited to fees paid for the specific disputed service.
8. Acceptance and contact
Execution must occur through the ECS-approved signature process. Questions should be sent to partnerships@elevatedcareerservices.com.
This operational draft should be reviewed by qualified counsel before ECS uses it as the binding agreement for a specific staffing model or jurisdiction.