Recruit workers from Bangladesh without inheriting the risk
ECI sources, screens, assesses and verifies skilled, semi-skilled and general workforce in Bangladesh, then coordinates work permit documentation and deployment to your site, for employers hiring one specialist or five hundred.
- 600+ workers placed
- 60+ employers served
- Deployment experience in 7 countries
- Operating since 2020
What happens after you send a requirement
- ECI reviews the roles, headcount and destination and comes back with questions, not a quote template.
- You receive a written recruitment plan: screening standard, assessment method, interview format and an indicative schedule.
- Sourcing begins only once that plan is agreed.
No account, no gated download, no obligation. Enquiries are reviewed during business hours: Monday – Saturday, 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Bangladesh Standard Time, UTC+6).
International hiring rarely fails on supply. It fails on verification, definition and timing.
Six things go wrong repeatedly when employers recruit across borders. Each one has a specific answer in how ECI runs a mandate.
You cannot verify who you are actually hiring
Every shortlisted candidate goes through identity, document and background verification before you interview, so the person on the video call is the person who arrives on site.
CVs say “skilled”, the site says otherwise
Skill claims are assessed practically against your job description before shortlisting, and the assessment format is agreed with you rather than assumed.
Hiring 50 to 500 people is a different problem to hiring five
Bulk mandates are run as projects with batch planning, parallel screening, interview scheduling in waves and staged deployment rather than one long queue.
You are managing recruitment across time zones you cannot cover
ECI runs the in-country work (sourcing, assessment, documentation, medicals, travel) and reports to a single coordinator on your side.
Visa and work-permit paperwork stalls at the candidate end
Candidate-side documentation is prepared, checked and tracked to your immigration timeline, working alongside whoever files on your behalf in the destination country.
Workers arrive unprepared for the job or the country
Pre-departure briefing covers the role, the site, the employer expectations and practical arrival information, and coordination continues after arrival.
What ECI actually does
Thirteen services that run as one process. Employers usually engage the whole chain, but each stage can be taken on its own.
International Recruitment & Staffing
End-to-end overseas recruitment from Bangladesh: requirement analysis, sourcing, screening, assessment, verification, interview coordination and deployment support.
Skilled Worker Recruitment
Trade-qualified and experienced workers, welders, electricians, technicians, operators and mechanics, screened on documented experience and practical assessment.
Semi-Skilled Worker Recruitment
Production operators, kitchen staff, warehouse and facility roles: candidates with relevant task experience and the aptitude to reach full productivity on your process.
Bulk Recruitment & Mass Hiring
High-volume mandates managed as projects: batch sourcing, parallel screening tracks, scheduled interview waves and staged deployment against your site readiness.
Candidate Screening & Shortlisting
Structured filtering against written employer criteria, delivered as a defensible shortlist with screening evidence rather than a stack of CVs.
Immigration & Work Permit Support
Preparation, checking and tracking of the candidate-side documentation your immigration process requires, coordinated with whoever files on your behalf.
Ten stages from requirement to post-deployment
The sequence is the same whether you are hiring five people or five hundred. Only the project structure changes.
Submit Workforce Requirement
You send the roles, headcount, skill level, work location and contract terms through the Hire Workers form, email or WhatsApp. The more precise the requirement, the faster everything downstream moves.
Requirement Analysis
ECI reviews the request with you: job descriptions, realistic skill definitions, documentation the destination country will expect, and what the recruitment plan needs to look like for your volume and timeline.
Candidate Sourcing
We source against the agreed profile from our candidate network across Bangladesh, including districts outside Dhaka where trade-specific labour is concentrated.
Screening & Shortlisting
Candidates are filtered on experience, trade competence, physical suitability for the role, language ability where required, and documentation readiness. You receive a structured shortlist, not a stack of unfiltered CVs.
Skill Assessment
Trade and practical assessment appropriate to the role, from tool and task demonstrations for construction trades to service scenarios for hospitality. Assessment format is agreed with you in advance.
Employer Interview
We coordinate interviews in your preferred format: online video, recorded assessments, or in-person panels in Bangladesh. Scheduling, interpretation support and candidate logistics are handled by ECI.
Document & Background Verification
Identity, passport, education, trade certificates and prior employment references are checked, along with background checks appropriate to the role and destination.
Visa / Work Permit Support
ECI prepares and coordinates the candidate-side documentation your immigration process requires and works alongside your appointed representatives. Requirements and authorities differ by country. ECI supports the process; it does not issue permits or approvals.
Travel & Deployment
Pre-departure briefing, medical and clearance coordination, ticketing and arrival planning, so workers reach your site prepared and on an agreed schedule.
Post-Deployment Coordination
A named point of contact after arrival for onboarding questions, documentation follow-up and replacement discussions where your agreement provides for them.
Regulatory procedure differs by destination country and by role category. Stage 8 in particular varies, and ECI supports the process rather than controlling its outcome.
Sector-specific screening across 17 industries
A caregiver and a scaffolder are not the same hiring decision. Screening depth, assessment method and verification standard are set per sector.
Construction & Engineering
Site trades and civil engineering workforce for contractors working to fixed programme dates.
Manufacturing & Factory
Production workforce for plants that measure success in output per shift.
Hospitality & Hotels
Guest-facing and back-of-house teams for hotels and resorts hiring to a service standard.
Healthcare & Caregiving
Care and healthcare support staff, screened to the standard a care setting demands.
Engineering & Technical
Qualified engineers and technicians for industrial, energy and infrastructure operations.
Skilled Trades
Certified and time-served tradespeople, assessed practically before shortlisting.
- Restaurant & Food Service
- Security Services
- Cleaning & Facility Management
- Logistics, Warehouse & Supply Chain
- Drivers & Transportation
- Agriculture & Farming
- IT & Technology
- Retail & Sales
- Oil & Gas
- Domestic & Household Workers
- Shipbuilding & Marine
Credibility you can check, not adjectives
ECI has been placing workers internationally since 2020. Here is what that actually buys you.
Verified before you interview
Identity, documents and background are checked before a candidate reaches your shortlist.
Assessed, not asserted
Skill claims are tested practically against your written job description, or against your own trade test.
One accountable partner
Sourcing through deployment handled by one team with one named coordinator on your mandate.
Careful about what we promise
ECI does not guarantee visas, timelines or outcomes that belong to other authorities. What we control, we commit to.
Leadership that carries institutional weight
ECI is chaired by M Akbar Ali (BPM PPM, BA (Hons), MA in English (DU), MBA (NSU), LLB, PhD), a former Deputy Inspector General of the Bangladesh Police. Day-to-day operations are led by Managing Director Shahiduzzaman Shahed, with Mannan Hossen Hridoy as International Marketing Director and N M Omar covering IT and finance.
For employers, that matters in one specific way: verification and background work in this industry depends on knowing how documentation and clearance processes actually function. That is not a marketing claim, it is why the verification stage is where ECI concentrates.
What ECI will not tell you
- That a visa is guaranteed. No recruiter can promise a decision that belongs to a government.
- A fixed end-to-end timeline before we understand your destination country and documentation position.
- That a document is verified when the issuing institution could not be reached.
- That every candidate in a shortlist is equally strong. The screening notes say which is which.
Why employers source workforce from Bangladesh
Bangladesh is one of the world established labour-sending countries. For an employer, the practical arguments are these.
Depth across trade categories
Bangladesh supplies labour across construction, manufacturing, hospitality, agriculture, facility services and marine trades, so a single sourcing market can cover mixed-role projects instead of several.
An established outbound employment system
Overseas employment is a long-standing, formally regulated part of the Bangladeshi labour market, so candidates, training providers and documentation processes are familiar with international placement.
Candidates with prior overseas experience
Workers who have already completed an overseas contract are available in most trade categories. ECI screens for that experience whenever you ask for it, because returning migrants tend to onboard faster and leave less often.
Scale for volume mandates
Large-headcount requirements can be filled from a single sourcing market rather than assembled from several, which keeps screening standards and deployment scheduling consistent.
Cost structure that supports long contracts
Employers hiring at volume can plan multi-year contracts with predictable workforce costs. ECI does not quote market wage levels. Salary is set by you and by the law of the destination country.
English exposure in service and technical roles
English is widely taught and used in Bangladeshi technical and service education. Language level is assessed per role rather than assumed across the board.
ECI does not publish wage levels or cost comparisons. Salary is set by you and governed by the law of the destination country.
Employers worldwide. Deployment experience in seven countries.
ECI accepts employer enquiries from any country. The list below is where workers have actually been deployed. It describes experience, not a service boundary.
Albania
Kosovo
Serbia
Montenegro
Moldova
Belarus
Romania
Hiring somewhere else?
Send the requirement and ECI will tell you honestly what it can and cannot support for your destination.
The candidate side of your work permit process, handled properly
Employer-sponsored immigration usually stalls in one place: candidate-side documents that are incomplete, expired, inconsistent or wrongly attested. Across a bulk intake, that becomes the whole timeline.
ECI works to the document list your immigration representative or the destination authority provides, checks each document before submission, monitors expiry dates across an entire intake, and coordinates attestation and legalisation steps in Bangladesh. Deployment (medicals, clearances, ticketing, pre-departure briefing and arrival planning) is coordinated from the same desk.
ECI is a recruitment and workforce services company. It is not a government body, an immigration authority, a visa-issuing authority or a licensed legal practice, and it does not grant, approve or guarantee any visa, permit or immigration outcome.
Practical guidance for employers hiring internationally
Written for the people who have to make these decisions, not for search engines.
How International Employers Recruit Workers from Bangladesh
What actually happens between defining a role and workers arriving on site, and the decisions employers should make early rather than late.
Bulk Recruitment from Bangladesh: What to Prepare Before You Start
Large intakes fail on preparation more often than on supply. Here is what to have settled before sourcing begins.
Skilled, Semi-Skilled and Unskilled: Getting the Definition Right
These three labels mean different things in different labour markets. Defining them for your own operation prevents most category mis-hires.
Questions employers ask before they start
How can an international company recruit workers from Bangladesh?
Send your workforce requirement (roles, headcount, skill level, work location and contract terms) through the Hire Workers form, by email or on WhatsApp. ECI turns it into a written recruitment plan, sources and screens candidates in Bangladesh, coordinates your interviews, verifies documents and backgrounds, supports candidate-side work permit documentation and coordinates travel and deployment.
What types of workers can ECI provide?
Skilled, semi-skilled and general workers across 17 sectors, from welders, electricians and technicians to production operators, hospitality staff, drivers, caregivers, security personnel, agricultural workers and general labour. Requirements are screened against your written job description rather than against generic skill labels.
Can ECI handle bulk recruitment and mass hiring?
Yes. Large mandates are run as managed projects with batch sourcing, parallel screening tracks for each trade, scheduled interview waves, consolidated documentation tracking and deployment staged against your site capacity. Both individual specialist placements and multi-hundred intakes use the same verification standard.
How does ECI screen and verify candidates?
Your requirement is converted into a scored screening checklist. Candidates are filtered against it, assessed practically where the trade allows, and put through identity, document and background verification before you interview. Anything that cannot be independently confirmed is reported to you as unverified rather than presented as checked.
Does ECI support visa and work permit processes?
ECI prepares, checks and tracks the candidate-side documentation your immigration process requires and coordinates with whoever files on your behalf. ECI is not a government body, an immigration authority or a licensed legal practice, and cannot grant or guarantee any visa or permit. Those decisions rest entirely with the competent authorities of the destination country.
Which countries does ECI work with?
ECI recruits from Bangladesh for employers worldwide and has completed deployments to Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Moldova, Belarus and Romania. Those seven countries describe existing deployment experience, not a limit on where ECI accepts employer enquiries.
What information should an employer provide to start?
At minimum: the job roles and headcount, the skill level required, the work location and country, the salary and benefits package, contract duration, working hours, and your expected deployment date. The more precisely the role is defined, the more accurate the shortlist will be.
Send your workforce requirement
Roles, headcount, destination and timeline. ECI comes back with a recruitment plan built around it, and an honest view of what is realistic.