Which Nice Classification Class Is a Recruitment Agency In?
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Published 13 August 2026 · Updated 13 August 2026 · 1 min read
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Recruitment and staffing agencies fall under Class 35, the wide-ranging class covering business management, advertising, and personnel-related services — the same class covering online retail and other business-facing services.
What Class 35 covers here
This includes personnel recruitment, executive search, staffing and temp-work placement, and HR consulting services more broadly. A recruitment agency operating purely as a service — sourcing and placing candidates for client companies — sits entirely within this one class.
Where recruitment platforms often need a second class
A recruitment agency that builds and sells its own applicant-tracking software or hiring platform, as a product used by other businesses rather than only its own internal tool, would need Class 9 (downloadable software) or Class 42 (a hosted SaaS platform — see our SaaS entry) in addition to Class 35. An agency that also runs paid training or upskilling programs for candidates would need Class 41 for that education component.
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