Manpower Recruitment Services for Employers Hiring from India
Alliance sources, tests, and places permanent staff from India with employers across the Gulf, Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America. Trade and technical testing before you interview; documentation and deployment are managed end-to-end. 16+ years, 36+ countries.
Alliance supports employers with candidate sourcing, screening, trade and technical assessments, documentation checks, and deployment coordination. This helps businesses reduce hiring risk and access job-ready Indian talent for overseas workforce requirements.
16+ Years Of Experience
550,000+ Placements Delivered
36+ Countries Served
350+ Expert Teams
50+ Top Level Positions
What Are Manpower Recruitment Services?
Manpower recruitment services are the sourcing, screening, testing and placement of staff at volume for an employer, most often across trade, technical, hospitality and operational roles. The agency identifies and verifies candidates. The employer hires them.
That last sentence is the whole distinction, and it is worth being blunt about it because the word “manpower” hides it.
Manpower supply, also called labour supply or labour hire, means the agency employs the workers and hires them out to you by the hour or the month. Alliance does not do this. Every person we place joins your payroll on a permanent contract, under your management, on your terms.
We also do not provide temporary, contract, project-based or temp-to-perm staffing. If your requirement is eight weeks of cover, we are the wrong supplier and will say so on the first call rather than the third.
What we do provide is permanent recruitment at volume, from a recruitment base in India, into employers worldwide.
For the wider practice, see our manpower agency page.
Manpower Recruitment Agency, Not a Labour Supplier
Most manpower recruitment services in this market are labour supply with a recruitment label on the invoice. The difference shows up on your balance sheet and in your compliance file, and most buyers discover which one they bought at audit. Alliance recruits permanent staff who become your employees. Slower, more expensive up front, and the only version where the worker is actually yours.
How Long Does Manpower Recruitment Take?
Domestic Indian placements, mid-level: 2 to 4 weeks from brief to offer.
Volume trade recruitment within India: 3 to 6 weeks for a defined batch.
Overseas deployment from India: 8 to 16 weeks, because documentation, medicals, and visa processing sit between offer and arrival and cannot be compressed.
How Much Do Manpower Recruitment Services Cost?
Domestic permanent placement: a percentage of first-year salary, billed on start date.
Volume trade recruitment: typically a fixed per-candidate fee rather than a percentage, because the arithmetic of a percentage on forty similar salaries makes no sense to anyone. Overseas deployment adds visa, medical, attestation and travel costs, which sit with the employer and vary sharply by destination.
What We Offer in Manpower Recruitment
Trade and technical testing before you interview
Welders weld, electricians are tested, drivers drive, cooks cook. You should never be the first person to discover a candidate cannot do the job, and on a forty-person mandate that discovery is expensive.
Permanent placement onto your payroll
Your employee, your contract, your management. We do not employ workers and invoice you for their time.
Documentation tracked with named ownership
For overseas mandates: emigration clearance, attestation, police clearance, medicals and visa processing, each with a status you can see and a person accountable for it. The most common cause of a failed overseas mandate is a document nobody was watching.
Compliance screening as standard
Identity, qualification and employment verification, with enhanced screening for BFSI, healthcare and any role carrying financial or safeguarding responsibility.
Replacement cover on permanent placements
with the period and terms written into the agreement rather than assumed.
A drop-out buffer built into volume planning
On overseas mandates, expect 10 to 15 percent of selected candidates to fall out at medical or visa stage. Any provider promising forty out of forty has not run this before.
Our Manpower Recruitment Process
Requirement and Feasibility (Week 1)
Roles, quantities, skill standard, salary and destination. For overseas mandates we confirm visa quota and nationality eligibility before sourcing begins, because shortlisting a nationality the destination will not issue visas for wastes a month.
Sourcing and Trade Testing (Weeks 1 to 4)
Sourced by our recruitment teams in India, then tested against your standard. You receive verified profiles with test results attached, not CVs.
Client Selection (Weeks 4 to 6)
Video panels, or an in-person selection drive in India where volume justifies it. On a forty-role mandate a three-day drive replaces six weeks of scheduling, and the selection decisions stay yours.
Documentation and Deployment (Weeks 6 to 14, overseas only)
Offer, attestation, emigration clearance, medicals and visa processing, reported weekly. This is where mandates fail and it is the phase most agencies go quiet on.
Joining and Handover (Weeks 12 to 16)
Travel, pre-departure briefing and arrival coordination. The candidate becomes your employee on joining and all employment administration transfers to you at that point.
Post-Placement Follow-Up (Ongoing)
We stay in contact after joining to confirm a smooth handover, resolve early issues, and support employers through the initial placement period.
Hiring Manpower from India?
Share your workforce requirements and get a realistic hiring and deployment timeline from our recruitment team before you commit.
Who We Serve
Employers with a fixed mobilisation date
a plant, hotel, site or branch opening on a set day and needing a defined headcount before it.
Companies whose local market cannot supply the skill
where the trade or specialism does not exist domestically in sufficient numbers.
Businesses hiring the same roles every quarter
where a standing pipeline costs less than a fresh scramble each time.
BFSI and regulated employers
where compliance screening, not sourcing speed, is the binding constraint, and a failed background check after joining is a reportable event.
Employers who used an unlicensed agent before
usually after candidates arrived on the wrong visa category or did not arrive at all.
Companies hiring into more than one country
running a Gulf and an African mobilisation at once and wanting one agency rather than one per destination.
Sectors We Recruit For, and Where We Recruit
Construction and infrastructure
Civil, mechanical, electrical trades, site supervision and project management.
Manufacturing and engineering
Production, maintenance, quality, welding, fabrication and plant operations.
Oil, gas and energy
Technicians, operators, HSE and project staff.
Hospitality and catering
Chefs, cooks, service, housekeeping and hotel operations, including restaurant teams recruited from India for Gulf and European employers.
Healthcare
Nursing, allied health and support staff, with credential verification handled as standard.
BFSI, banking and insurance
Operations, processing, collections and branch roles, with enhanced compliance screening.
Logistics, transport and facilities
Drivers, warehouse, technicians and facilities teams.
IT and technology
Skilled technical roles recruited permanently, not on contract.
Recruitment locations across India
Teams in Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Pune, Madurai and Trichy. For employers hiring in and around Kolkata, West Bengal and Howrah specifically, our manpower consultancy in Kolkata team handles that region directly.
The Alliance Advantage
Recruitment, not labour supply. Your hires join your payroll permanently. We do not employ workers and hire them out, and we will not quote for it.
No temporary, contract, project or temp-to-perm staffing. Stated plainly because the word “manpower” implies otherwise and buyers deserve to know before the first call.
Physical trade testing in India, not CVs forwarded from a database.
We quote the joining date, not the shortlist date. Overseas mandates take 8 to 16 weeks and we count the visa honestly.
Weekly documentation reporting during the phase where mandates actually fail.
Compliance screening depth matched to the sector, with enhanced verification for BFSI, healthcare, and safeguarding roles.
Feasibility checked before sourcing starts. We have declined mandates at this stage because the destination would not issue the visas, which is a better outcome than a wasted month.
Why Choose Alliance for Manpower Recruitment Services?
The word “manpower” covers two completely different businesses, and the industry benefits from the confusion. One recruits people who become your employees. The other employs people and rents them to you. Both are legitimate. They have entirely different cost structures, compliance obligations and balance-sheet treatment, and a surprising number of employers do not know which one they have bought until an auditor asks.
Alliance is the first kind only. Permanent recruitment, from India, into employers worldwide. If you need hourly labour, a managed workforce or eight weeks of project cover, we do not provide it, and we will tell you that in the first five minutes rather than the third meeting.
The second thing worth knowing is where our recruiters sit. They are in India, in the cities we recruit from, which is why a welder can be tested before you see the profile and why a Kolkata mandate is run by people in Kolkata.
We are also the wrong choice for single senior appointments, where retained executive search is the right instrument. For overseas deployment specifically, see our overseas recruitment agency practice. For Gulf destinations, see manpower Middle East.
Our Client Reviews
We had a tight manpower requirement and needed candidates who could meet specific skill standards. Alliance understood the requirement quickly and provided well-screened profiles that made our selection process much easier.
Alliance handled our manpower recruitment requirement professionally from sourcing to candidate coordination. The team stayed responsive throughout and helped us maintain a steady pipeline of suitable workers.
What impressed us was the quality of screening. Instead of sending large numbers of CVs, Alliance focused on candidates who matched our actual workforce requirements, which saved our management team considerable time.
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Alex George
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Head of Recruitment | Recruitment & Staffing
Frequently Asked Questions
Manpower recruitment services are the sourcing, screening, testing and placement of staff at volume for an employer, most often across trade, technical, hospitality and operational roles. The agency identifies and verifies candidates. The employer hires them.
Recruitment. Every person we place joins your payroll on a permanent contract. Alliance does not employ workers and hire them out by the hour or the month.
No. Alliance provides permanent recruitment only. We do not offer temporary staffing, contract labour, temp-to-perm, or managed workforce services.
Domestic Indian placements take 2 to 4 weeks at mid-level and 3 to 6 weeks for volume trade batches. Overseas deployment from India takes 8 to 16 weeks, because documentation, medicals, and visa processing sit between offer and arrival.
Domestic permanent placement is a percentage of first-year salary billed on start date. Volume trade recruitment is typically a fixed per-candidate fee. Overseas deployment adds visa, medical, attestation, and travel costs, which sit with the employer.
Compliance screening, without close competition. A slow hire costs you weeks. A failed background check discovered after joining is a reportable event with regulatory consequences. Turnaround time and replacement support matter, but they are recoverable. A compliance failure often is not.
Yes. Welders weld, electricians are tested, drivers drive. You receive test results with the profile rather than a CV.
Some will. We plan a 10 to 15 percent buffer on overseas volume mandates and re-source failed candidates within the original engagement.
Construction, manufacturing and engineering, oil and gas, hospitality and catering, healthcare, BFSI, logistics and facilities, and permanent IT roles.
Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Pune, Madurai, and Trichy.
Yes. Emigration clearance, attestation, police clearance, medicals, and visa processing are reported weekly. Processing costs sit with the employer.
Send the requirements with roles, quantities, skill standards, salary, and destination. We confirm feasibility first and return a realistic joining date before sourcing begins.
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