You share the job details, including the trade, number of workers needed, site location, start date, and salary. Rao then finds suitable candidates in India.
We check the candidates’ trade certificates and work experience. We also arrange practical tests or video interviews as required. You make the final hiring decision.
To help workers move to Germany legally, the process generally includes these steps:
Job Offer: The German employer provides a job offer and employment contract.
Qualification Recognition: The worker’s trade qualifications must be recognised in Germany. In some cases, a recognition partnership allows the worker to enter Germany and complete the recognition process while working. This route requires a qualification based on at least two years of vocational training, along with other eligibility conditions.
Employment Approval: The Federal Employment Agency approves the job if approval is required.
Fast-Track Process: The employer can apply for Germany’s fast-track skilled worker procedure. The local foreigners authority coordinates with the relevant authorities.
Visa Application: The worker applies for a German national visa through the German mission in India.
Rao helps prepare the workers’ documents and tracks the process with you. The employer and worker remain responsible for their respective legal applications.
Once the visa is approved, we coordinate the worker’s travel with your site start date. We also explain the employment contract and work conditions to the worker before departure.
Our support continues after the worker arrives in Germany. Rao remains your main contact for document-related questions, worker concerns, and general coordination.
The German construction employer provides a job offer or employment contract specifying the position and employment conditions.
The worker checks the applicable German work visa route based on their nationality, qualifications, experience and job role.
Usually required:
The worker submits the relevant visa application and supporting documents through the responsible German mission or applicable online process.
The authorities review the application, employment conditions and any required Federal Employment Agency approval.
After the visa is approved, the worker travels to Germany, completes any required residence formalities and begins work in accordance with the visa or residence permit conditions.
You decide how many workers you need and in which trades. You choose who gets an offer. You sign the employment contract and set the pay.
Rao finds the candidates and checks their papers. Rao helps build the document file and keeps you informed at each step. The legal applications stay with you and the worker, so ask the German authorities or your legal adviser about any rule you are unsure of.
A German employer needs a job offer for a qualified role. The worker needs a recognised trade qualification or a recognition partnership. The Federal Employment Agency must approve the job where required. The worker then needs a national visa. A recruitment agency such as Rao finds and screens candidates in India and prepares their documents. The German employer signs the employment contract.
In most cases, yes. Germany generally requires recognition of a foreign trade qualification before it issues a skilled worker permit. A recognition partnership lets an electrician start work first and finish recognition after arriving in Germany. Some experienced workers in non-regulated occupations may qualify through a separate experience-based route. The competent German authority decides each case.
The time depends on qualification recognition, Federal Employment Agency review and visa appointment dates. The employer-led fast-track procedure sets deadlines for the authorities. It is the quickest route. The standard route takes longer, and recognition alone can take several months.
No. Rao recruits workers who sign an employment contract directly with the German employer. German law limits temporary agency work in the main construction trades. A firm that is considering construction manpower outsourcing in Germany should confirm the right hiring model with a German legal adviser.
Rao recruits electricians, welders, plumbers, HVAC technicians, scaffolders, carpenters and masons for German construction firms. The agency also recruits CNC operators for German manufacturers.
Yes. Rao is a licensed recruiting agent in India under the Emigration Act, 1983. Employers can check any Indian recruiting agent on the eMigrate portal of the Ministry of External Affairs.
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