We understand your anxiety in wondering if you have done 'the right thing' as the media gives regular coverage to questioning all agencies and there has been good cause to.
One thing most people do not realise is that the majority of companies who give rise to complaint are simply 'showcase outfits'.
By 'showcase', we mean they do not undertake to represent models for seeking paid work, instead they simply, make hollow claims to host people as available for 'agents and hirers to see'.
The difficulty is, new models do not realise this subtle difference and pay to sign up in the hope something will happen.
In reality, agents and hirers do not comb these showcase sights. When they want models - they turn to those agents who are proper agents and by that we mean, those reputable ones who are registered as Employment Agents.
Employment agent agencies who represent models, as Models Direct have done since 1990, are regulated and inspected by the following Government authorities, The Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Employment, as well as Office of Fair Trading, Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise.
There are strict inspections, accountability and severe penalties for default and failure to comply.
So you can see why 'showcase model agencies exist, in order to dodge the tight rules and regulations and laws governing Models Direct, as an authorised employment agency.
Models Direct has successfully represented and found work for the last eighteen years for many men, women and children in the film, advertising, fashion, catalogue and photographic industries and we continue to do so daily with our full time staff of seventeen professional bookers.
Why not move away from your computer and come and see us at our UK Head Office here in Norwich? Make an appointment with any of our Co ordinators and we will make you very welcome, showing you what we do and how we do it, for people like yourself.
This will clarify how Models Direct differs and demonstrate the facts behind modelling with us. See the names we supply models to, meet our team working everyday on behalf of our models, meet the directors who founded Models Direct in 1990, hear how we started and what we do and could do for you, see for yourself what we are all about.
Then decide, knowing the facts.
If you produce your travel ticket, or petrol receipt for your travel for your days visit, you will also go home with a contribution from us for half your travel costs.
That's our 50/50 offer, we'll help you to help yourself. Firstly to come and see us and thereafter, if you are successful in receiving an Offer of Model Management from us, throughout the time you are modelling with us.
Success is about commitment, your modelling is no different. Take us up on the invitation before deciding if modelling is really for you.
If it is, you are talking to the right people. We look forward to meeting you, we know commitment when we see it.
http://www.modelsdirect.com/ourmodelssay-select.html It's more than just 'a look'.
