Werklist India helps workers access verified jobs abroad and helps employers hire reliable candidates.
India is the world's largest source of overseas workers, with established migration routes to the Gulf, Southeast Asia, and increasingly to Europe and the United Kingdom. Many candidates already understand contract work, shift schedules, employer accommodation, safety equipment, and trade testing before they enter a European hiring process, and a large share hold Industrial Training Institute (ITI) certificates in their trade.
For employers, that depth reduces onboarding risk. Werklist India focuses on candidates with verified work history, trade-tested skills, and the documentation needed to complete a structured overseas employment process through the eMigrate system.
India is the world's largest labour-sending country and the top recipient of worker remittances.
Werklist is licensed to source workers from India under Government License No. 1548/078/079
Send an email
hello@werklist.com
Drop by the Mumbai office, send a message, or pick up the line.
Neelkanth Pride, Sector 42A, Nerul, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Message us
Are you from India and looking for work?
Explore the job marketplace
From construction sites to fast-paced retail and hospitality environments, Werklist supplies the reliable solutions that keep your operations moving forward.
Realistically 8 to 12 weeks from a signed demand letter to first arrivals on site. The critical-path step for ECR-category workers is emigration clearance from the Protector of Emigrants, which typically takes 2 to 3 weeks once the contract and insurance are filed in eMigrate. Trade tests, Gulf-approved medicals, and destination visa stamping run in parallel and close out the timeline.
eMigrate is the Ministry of External Affairs online platform that brings together recruiting agents, foreign employers, and emigrants on one system under the Emigration Act 1983. The foreign employer registers, the demand and contract are uploaded, and ECR-category placements are routed to the Office of the Protector of Emigrants for clearance. Werklist India is a registered recruiting agent on eMigrate, so the filing chain sits with us.
ECR stands for Emigration Check Required. Candidates without a matriculation certificate must obtain emigration clearance from the Protector of Emigrants before taking up work in the 18 notified ECR countries, which include Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and others. Clearance is issued under Section 22 of the Emigration Act 1983. Candidates who hold a matriculation certificate travel ECNR and do not need per-trip clearance. Werklist India confirms each candidate's status up front.
Under most international labour-employment frameworks, the employer covers visa fees, the work permit, the one-way flight, and accommodation on arrival. The candidate covers passport issuance and personal documents. For ECR-category placements the PBBY insurance premium, a mandatory life and accident cover, is part of the clearance filing. Werklist India documents the cost split explicitly in the demand letter so there are no surprises after deployment.
English is an official working language in Indian industry and higher education, so most candidates have functional English for safe communication in production, construction, hospitality, and care environments, and many sit at B1 or above. Candidates with previous Gulf experience are used to mixed-nationality crews. Where a role sets a specific language threshold, Werklist supports role-specific preparation before departure and during the first 90 days.
Werklist offers a replacement candidate within an agreed window of typically 30 to 60 days at no additional placement fee. We screen for job stability, trade competence, and motivation before employer review specifically to keep early attrition low. Our 12-month retention rate is 86%.
Yes. After we share the shortlist PDF, with CVs, ITI or trade certificates, trade-test results, and experience letters, employers can run video interviews with each candidate. Some employers fly to Mumbai for in-person trade tests and casting; others handle screening remotely. The demand letter is signed only after the employer confirms the shortlist.
Construction and fabrication (welders, pipefitters, fitters, riggers, scaffolders), manufacturing (CNC operators, machine technicians, electricians), hospitality (kitchen and housekeeping), healthcare support (care and nursing aides), and logistics (forklift, warehouse, drivers). India has a deep pool of trade-tested candidates for GCC megaprojects and EU shipyards and manufacturing, many with prior overseas experience.
ITI trade certificates and National Trade Certificates from the NCVT framework are widely recognised across labour-import jurisdictions. For regulated trades such as welding, electrical, and plumbing, destination-country re-certification or a witnessed trade test may still apply. Werklist coordinates document attestation, including MEA apostille where the destination requires it, so candidates clear local checks inside the standard onboarding window.
A 30-minute call to scope the role, a draft job description with wage and accommodation terms, and a signed authorisation to Werklist India so we can register the demand against your eMigrate foreign-employer profile. A corridor-fit assessment lands within one business day of a brief, whether you go with us or not.
Werklist India operates as a local recruitment and coordination office for candidates, employers, and partners involved in overseas hiring.
Werklist India works at the source of the hiring process: finding, reviewing, and preparing candidates in India for employers hiring abroad. The branch is built around local recruitment, candidate verification, trade testing, document collection, interview coordination, and practical preparation before a worker enters an international employment process.
India is the world's largest labour-sending country and the leading recipient of worker remittances. Many Indian workers already have overseas experience, especially in construction, fabrication, manufacturing, hospitality, logistics, facility work, and industrial support roles. This gives employers access to candidates who are often familiar with contract work, shift schedules, shared accommodation, safety rules, and the trade testing that skilled roles require.
Hiring from India is not only about finding available workers. It requires local sourcing, identity checks, work history review, trade-test confirmation, realistic expectation setting, document readiness, and coordination through the Ministry of External Affairs eMigrate system. Werklist India is designed to make that process more controlled before candidates are presented to employers.
The branch supports recruitment for blue-collar, semi-skilled, skilled, and operational roles, depending on employer demand, candidate availability, and destination-country requirements. Typical profiles include welders, pipefitters, fitters, CNC operators, electricians, construction workers, warehouse workers, factory workers, hospitality staff, care assistants, cleaners, helpers, and drivers.
Every hiring project starts with role requirements. Candidates are reviewed against the actual job: experience, trade-test results, availability, language level, documentation status, salary expectations, contract understanding, and readiness to work abroad. Where required, candidates can be interviewed, trade-checked, shortlisted, and prepared before the employer makes a final selection.
Werklist India also supports the administrative side of overseas hiring from India. This can include eMigrate registration support, document collection and attestation, candidate data organization, contract coordination, PBBY insurance and emigration clearance filing for ECR-category workers, medical and travel preparation, and communication between the candidate, employer, local partners, and destination-side teams.
For candidates, the process creates a clearer route into verified international work. For employers, it creates a cleaner supply channel from India, with candidates reviewed and trade-tested before submission and fewer gaps between recruitment, documents, contracts, and departure planning.
Werklist India supports companies and partners looking to hire Indian workers, recruit from India, source overseas candidates, manage foreign worker recruitment, and coordinate international employment processes from India. Work is carried out in line with applicable laws, the Emigration Act 1983, employer requirements, recruitment rules, immigration procedures, and destination-market conditions.
