Global Staffing Services for Employers Hiring Across Countries
Alliance recruits staff for employers operating in more than one country, through one agency relationship rather than a separate supplier in every market. Most mandates are permanent placements, where we find the person and they join your payroll; in selected markets we also supply contract staff. 16+ years, 36+ countries.
We manage permanent international hiring around your actual requirements—role, location, salary, experience and local market conditions. You get one coordinated recruitment process, with candidates assessed for the country and role they will actually work in.
16+
Years Of Experience
550,000+
Placements Delivered
36+
Countries Served
350+
Expert Teams
50+
Top Level Positions
What Are Global Staffing Services?
“Global staffing” describes three genuinely different commercial arrangements, and the phrase gets used for all of them. Being clear about which one you are buying is the single most useful thing on this page.
Global recruitment means an agency finds and screens the person, and they join your organisation as your employee. You pay once. This is what Alliance does.
Employer of Record, or EOR, means a third party legally employs the person on your behalf in a country where you have no legal entity. You pay a monthly per-employee fee on top of salary, indefinitely. Alliance is not an EOR.
Staffing or contract supply means an agency, or its licensed partner, employs the worker and bills you an hourly or monthly rate with a margin. Alliance provides this in selected markets, including India, Oman, Qatar, Malaysia, the Philippines, the UK and the US, and in the UAE through MOHRE-licensed partners.
The three are often combined, which is where cost control breaks down. A company with an entity in two markets, an EOR in three and a staffing contract in one is paying three different overheads for the same function.
For international placement specifically, see our overseas recruitment agency practice. For cross-border hiring programmes, see international recruitment, and for contract staff, our contract staffing service.
One Agency, Not One Per Market
Most employers hiring across borders end up with a global staffing agency in each country, a different fee structure in each, and no comparable data across any of them. The cost is not the fees. It is that nobody can answer what a hire actually costs in Manila versus Dubai versus Kraków. Alliance runs multi-country mandates under one agreement with one reporting format. Alliance at a glance: Alliance Recruitment Agency has recruited for employers since 2010 (16+ years) and has served 9,000+ organisations across 36+ countries, with a 4.8 average client rating and 95% repeat business. It runs multi-country mandates under one agreement, mainly for permanent hires, with a shortlist within 24–48 hours of an agreed brief and a 90-day replacement guarantee on permanent placements.
How Do EOR, Staffing and Recruitment Contracts Compare on Total Cost?
Recruitment is a one-time cost. One fee, agreed in writing before the search starts and, on a contingency search, payable only on successful placement. After that, you pay only the salary.
EOR is a recurring cost that never ends. Typically a per-employee monthly fee plus the salary and statutory employer burden. Rational when you have no entity and no intention of creating one. Expensive when applied to a permanent team you intend to keep for years.
Staffing is a recurring margin on hours. The highest total cost over any period beyond a few months.
The comparison most employers never run: EOR fees on a five-year employee against a one-time recruitment fee plus your own entity.
How Long Does Multi-Country Recruitment Take?
Shortlist: within 24–48 hours of an agreed brief for most roles.
Offer: typically 6–10 weeks.
Executive and C-suite roles: executive shortlist in 10–21 days; C-suite appointments typically take 10–14 weeks.
Relocation or work-permit routes: add time that depends on the country and the visa route; we confirm it per market before sourcing starts.
What We Offer on Multi-Country Mandates
One agreement covering every market
Not a separate contract, fee structure and account manager per country, which is how most global hiring programmes end up ungovernable.
Comparable reporting across markets
Time-to-fill, acceptance rate and cost per hire in one format, so you can compare markets side by side. Most employers running multi-country hiring cannot produce this.
Local salary benchmarking per market, not converted
A package converted from head office at the spot rate is the most common reason cross-border offers are declined.
In-market assessment
Candidates are assessed for the market they will work in, rather than screened for every country from one office.
Honest advice on the employment route
If a market genuinely warrants an EOR rather than a direct hire, we will say so, name the trade-off, and we do not earn anything from that recommendation.
Permanent First, Contract Where It Fits
Most mandates are permanent placements. Where a market or project calls for it, we also supply contract staff in selected markets, in the UAE through MOHRE-licensed partners.
Our Global Recruitment Process
Market and Route Assessment
Which countries, which roles, and whether a direct hire is even possible in each market given your entity position. This is where we tell you that a market needs an EOR rather than us, which happens and is worth knowing in week one.
Brief and Local Benchmarking
Role definition per market, with salary benchmarked locally rather than converted. The same job title carries different scope in different countries and briefs written centrally routinely miss it.
Sourcing, Screening and Shortlist
Sourced and assessed in each target market. Written assessment against your criteria including weaknesses.
Interview and Offer Coordination
Scheduling across time zones and offer structuring against local norms. Notice periods vary from two weeks to three months depending on the country, and start dates should be planned from that rather than from the offer date.
Consolidated Reporting
Time-to-fill, acceptance rate and cost per hire per market, in one format, monthly.
Joining and Post-Placement Follow-Up
We coordinate the final joining timeline, confirm the candidate has started successfully and follow up with your hiring team to identify any early issues across each market.
Compare Your Multi-Country Hiring Costs
Hiring across multiple countries? Send us your locations and headcount, and we’ll recommend the most cost-effective route for your business.
Markets and Functions We Cover
India
Our largest recruitment base, for Indian employers and for international employers hiring Indian talent.
The Gulf
UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain, where nationalisation quotas govern what is hireable. See manpower Middle East.
South East Asia
Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore.
Europe and the UK
Subject to work authorisation, which we confirm before sourcing.
North America
Professional and specialist roles.
Africa
East and West Africa, for both local hiring and outbound recruitment.
Functions
IT and technology, engineering, finance and accounting, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing and operations, sales and commercial, HR, and executive appointments.
Multi-country programmes
Building the same function across three or four markets simultaneously, which is the mandate this page exists for.
Where we are not the answer
Markets where you have no entity and no plan to create one. That is an EOR requirement, not a recruitment one, and we will tell you rather than sell around it.
Who We Serve
Companies with an agency in every country and no comparable data across any of them
where the problem is governance rather than sourcing.
Employers paying EOR fees on people they intend to keep for years
and who have never run the five-year comparison against incorporating and hiring directly.
Businesses entering two or three markets at once
needing the same function built simultaneously rather than sequentially.
Companies whose central brief keeps failing locally
usually a salary band converted from head office and a job title that means something different in the target market.
Employers consolidating suppliers
replacing four or five country agencies with one relationship, mostly for reporting rather than for price.
Organisations that have just discovered what their multi-country hiring actually costs
because somebody finally added up the EOR fees, the staffing margins and the agency invoices together.
The Alliance Advantage
One agreement, 36+ countries. Not a contract per market.
Comparable reporting across markets in one format, which most employers running global hiring genuinely cannot produce today.
Local salary benchmarking, never conversion.
We will tell you when EOR is the right route and we earn nothing from saying so.
Permanent placement first, with contract staffing in selected markets.
In-market teams where we have them, and honesty about where we do not.
A one-time fee rather than a recurring margin. Over any horizon longer than a few months, that is the cheaper structure, and it is the reason to prefer recruitment where recruitment is possible.
Why Choose Alliance for Global Hiring?
Most companies do not arrive at a global hiring problem deliberately. They enter one market with an EOR because it was fast, add a staffing contract in another because a project needed cover, appoint a local agency in a third, and two years later nobody can say what a hire costs or how long it takes anywhere. The individual decisions were all defensible. The aggregate is not.
What Alliance offers is one relationship and one set of numbers across the markets where direct hiring is possible. Not a claim to be cheapest in any single country — a local specialist in Warsaw will usually beat us in Warsaw.
We are the wrong choice in three clear situations, and we would rather name them.
If you have no legal entity in a market and no plan to create one, you need an EOR and we are not one.
If you need short temporary cover in a market where we do not supply contract staff, a local staffing firm is the better route, and we will tell you which markets we cover.
And if you are hiring in exactly one country, a strong local agency will almost always serve you better than a global one.
For volume and trade hiring, see our manpower agency practice. For a managed hiring function, see RPO services.
Our Client Reviews
We needed to hire across several countries without setting up separate recruitment processes in each market. Alliance gave us one point of contact, handled the sourcing, and kept the candidate quality consistent across locations. It made the expansion much easier for our internal HR team.
Our staffing requirements change depending on project demand, so we needed a partner that could scale with us. Alliance helped us fill both permanent and contract positions in different markets without making the process unnecessarily complicated. Their team was responsive and understood the urgency of our hiring plans.
We were entering two new markets and did not have established recruitment networks there. Alliance helped us identify suitable talent quickly and managed the hiring process across countries from a single relationship. The candidates were relevant, communication was clear, and our teams were able to get started without major delays.
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Meet Our Leadership Team
Molly Anderson
Franchise Lead | Recruitment Franchise
Alex George
General Manager | RPO & Enterprise Recruitment
Nikki Miller
Head of Recruitment | Recruitment & Staffing
Frequently Asked Questions
The phrase covers three different arrangements: global recruitment, where an agency finds a person who becomes your employee; Employer of Record, where a third party legally employs them on your behalf; and contract or temporary staffing, where an agency employs the worker and bills hourly or monthly. Alliance mainly provides the first and supplies contract staff in selected markets.
No. Alliance is a recruitment agency. For permanent hires, we find and place people who become your employees. For contract staff in selected markets, Alliance or a licensed local partner employs the worker for the length of the contract.
Recruitment is a one-time fee, agreed in writing before the search starts, after which you pay only the salary. EOR is a recurring per-employee monthly fee on top of salary and statutory burden, for as long as the person is employed. Staffing is a recurring margin on hours. Over any horizon beyond a few months, recruitment is the lowest total cost where direct employment is possible.
When you have no legal entity in the market and no intention of creating one, or when the engagement is genuinely short-term. If that is your position, we will say so.
Yes, in selected markets. Most of our work is permanent placement, and we also supply contract staff in markets such as India, Oman, Qatar, Malaysia, the Philippines, the UK and the US, and in the UAE through MOHRE-licensed partners. Tell us the country and the contract length and we will confirm what we can supply.
Most roles get a shortlist within 24–48 hours of an agreed brief and reach an offer in about 6–10 weeks. Executive shortlists take 10–21 days and C-suite appointments 10–14 weeks. Work-permit routes add time that depends on the country; we confirm it per market before sourcing.
36+ countries, with our largest base in India, plus the Gulf, Southeast Asia, Europe, the UK, North America and Africa.
Yes, per market. Converting a head-office package at the spot rate is the most common reason cross-border offers are declined.
Yes. Simultaneous multi-market mandates under one agreement with consolidated reporting are the primary use case for this service.
Time-to-fill, acceptance rate and cost per hire per market in a single format, monthly.
Yes. Permanent placements carry a 90-day replacement guarantee: if the person doesn’t work out within 90 days, we find a replacement at no extra charge.
Send the country list, the roles and your entity position in each market. We will confirm where direct hiring is possible and where it is not before quoting.
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