How recruiting works?

Following pre-assessment the employer assigns Jupiter Overseas a job order for any number of overseas workers and signs and international recruitment and placement mediation service agreement in which the terms and conditions are clearly and completely spelled out in detail. The employer is expected to meet the conditions and provide all the documents required.

In most EU countries and other developed nations (if not all), the employer or his official representative is required to make an effort to recruit workers from the domestic market and provide evidence that such efforts were made before being allowed to proceed with any international recruitment campaign. Jupiter Overseas will act on behalf of the employer, but, only after this step has been completed is it possible to move on to the next stage. From our experience, it may be possible to fill some positions with domestic workers, but the large majority of positions will go unfilled. There are a number of occupations that the large majority of citizens or residents of wealthier nations will not consider, no matter how much money they are offered. Nonetheless, it is unquestionable that priority must be given to those residing in the country before proceeding with recruitment from abroad.

Authorisation is sought for work permits or equivalent documents (each country has its own system) to be issued by the government agency in charge of such matters. Without clearance from the authorities it is not possible to carry on with international recruitment project.

Only following government clearance does Jupiter Overseas engage with the licensed recruitment or manpower agency or agencies established in the countries where the low-skilled or unskilled workers with the nationality or nationalities the employer has previously indicated can be found. Jupiter Overseas and its partners work together in close cooperation to ascertain that the complex, bureaucracy-ridden and painstaking process of recruiting the workers and obtaining work visas for those selected to be placed with the overseas employer meets with success.

When the employer gives the green light, the foreign workers issued visas begin to depart to the destination country in an organised and orderly fashion – according to the employer's needs and requirements. Jupiter Overseas will take charge of all settlement-related issues: timely airport pickup, transportation to accommodation, take workers shopping for basic necessities such as food, cellphone and communication subscriptions, assist with opening up bank accounts, assist in obtaining any and all documents, filling out forms and any other required paperwork and much more.

Jupiter Overseas provides continuous oversight and follow-up. We pay regular visits and maintain close communication with the employer and the foreign workers for the duration of the employment contract and provide any support, assistance and information required. We also to intervene if misunderstandings, tension or conflict arise – timely intervention can defuse misunderstandings before they flare up in to something potentially far more serious. We are always available to provide guidance and support to employers and foreign workers – long after the agreement has expired.

We have embarked on a diverse range of international recruitment mediation assignments – mediating the recruitment and placement of workers from Asia on Portuguese farms, recruiting and placing Portuguese nurses in UK old age homes and finding jobs for Portuguese trades workers and long haul truck drivers in western Canada. We have learned a great deal from all our experiences.

Just as it the case with many other professional activities, there is a lot more to international recruitment and placement than meets the naked eye – a comment that surely qualifies as one of the biggest understatements of the year. There are an incredible amount of bad apples, voyeurs, scammers, despicable, cruel and unscrupulous people dealers with a “get rich quick by any means” mentality in this business – not only “agents” and “agencies”, but employers as well.

Those with no experience in international recruitment and sourcing business should be aware that they are walking into a lion's den when they choose to become involved in this activity. Jupiter Overseas has made more than its fair share of mistakes and wrong calls. Trial and error is virtually unavoidable – all those who are engaged in this activity are sure to agree.

We have learned and survived from our missteps and possess, today, a far better understanding of the inner workings of this business and what is required to get it right and be successful – without doing harm to anyone or damaging our reputation in the process. We have separated the wheat from the chaff.

Making the wrong decisions and taking the wrong approach – especially when choosing the employer to mediate the recruitment for and/or the overseas partner to work with to get the job done – can create an incredibly messy situation and, even worse, have a devastating and long-term impact on innocent lives – lives of people who placed their trust in us.

Providing mediation services for international recruitment and placement is something we handle with great care, responsibility and caution. It is a people business – and, at Jupiter Overseas, people always come first.

With all modesty, we believe there are many reasons to partner with us. If you take the opportunity to browse our website you will likely reach the conclusion that we take a revolutionary, ground-breaking, radically innovative approach to the business of mediating the recruitment and placement of low-skilled and unskilled workers in the more developed and prosperous nations of the globe.

We are in the business of making friends – we want employers we deal with and the workers we recruit to become friends for life and, of course, recommend us to their friends as well.

We work by the book – no fraud, dirty tricks, low blows, fake signatures, tax evasion schemes, under the table payments or any remotely similar practices.

We do not hide from, avoid or try to work around governmental agencies or authorities that play a role in foreign worker recruitment or immigration issues – we also consider them partners. We provide effective, efficient and professional international recruitment and placement mediation services – we can find any number of hardworking and disciplined foreign workers businesses need.

Reputation matters – we want to remain in this business for a long time and are all too aware that a bad reputation will seriously jeopardise this ambition.