NJ career consulting bonds.
$300. Five minutes.
New Jersey requires a registered career consulting or outplacement firm to post a $10,000 bond at registration and annually thereafter, under N.J.S.A. 34:8-65. Ours is $300 flat — 3% of the bond amount, the same for every firm.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Registration bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
Registration bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the Division of Consumer Affairs
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your career consulting / outplacement firm registration. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
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$10,000 bond × 3% = $300, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
New Jersey regulates career consulting and outplacement firms under N.J.S.A. 34:8-65, part of the employment-services law administered by the Division of Consumer Affairs. Each firm must post a $10,000 bond at registration and annually thereafter — a consumer-protection guarantee behind the services you sell to job seekers and displaced workers.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the State of New Jersey (the obligee), with your clients as the protected parties. If a firm fails to deliver the services it contracted for, a harmed client can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The statute requires the bond at each annual registration and that it be retained until 90 days after the registration expires or is revoked; we track it and notify you 60 and 30 days out so your filing stays continuous.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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$300 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.