An Agency Is Asking Me For Loads Of My Information....

[Treacle71]

....such as DBS Certificate, passport photo, utility bills/council tax bill/ Driver’s License/ bank statement/ dated within the last 3 months, National Insurance, references, passport……and the list goes on even before any jobs are put to me. I replied back with, “Until a bona fide job offer is made, I can't supply what's stipulated below. Please run past me all the roles you have and I'll let you know what's most applicable to me", but the reply came back with, "I apologise however since we are a recruitment agency we are not permitted to give out job vacancies to those who not enrolled in our system. If you wish to submit your documents at any time in the future so we can share potential vacancies also after you have passed a strict compliance check we can share all the vacancies".
I don't know this agency from Adam. Did I do the right thing in this? Surely they should let me know about a suitable role first?

[ladybirder]

They won't be asking for ALL of those documents, it will be one or two from their list and you can choose which you show. It'll be a miracle to me if you find one that doesn't check on your credentials. If they didn't they wouldn't last long.

[Treacle71]

Thank you so much everyone. Your help has been valuable to me xx