MEA licensed overseas recruitment agency in Lucknow
Bringing an engineer or an ICU nurse over from India is a bigger step than hiring locally. If it goes wrong, you lose months. So before your technical lead meets anyone we send, we've already seen their degree and licence and spoken to someone they used to work for.
Engineers, nurses, HSE, IT and finance
for employers in all six GCC countries
Overview
It means hiring people whose job depends on a qualification. Engineers and nurses are the usual examples. Safety officers and IT specialists count too.
KDA Hiring, based in Lucknow and licensed by the MEA, recruits these professionals from India for companies in all six GCC countries. We verify credentials, call references and help with licensing and degree attestation. The employer pays us. Candidates don't.
₹0 charged to candidates, at any stage
The difference
You can watch a welder work and know within an hour whether they're any good. You can't do that with a planning engineer. What you're paying for is years of judgement, and that only shows up in conversation and in what past managers say.
Then there's the paperwork. Degrees often need attesting in India and again by the embassy. Some jobs also need a Gulf licence before day one. If a step gets missed, a good candidate can sit at home for weeks.
India isn't short of engineers or nurses, and many already have Gulf experience. Finding the few who fit your brief is the hard part. Most of our time goes there.
Roles
These six areas cover most of what we're asked for. One-off searches for an unusual role are fine too.
Site engineers mostly, but design and maintenance people too. Our clients here are contractors, consultants and a few plants.
Nurses make up most of this. We also get asked for lab and pharmacy staff fairly often.
Safety and quality people. Most clients want NEBOSH or IOSH on the CV, so we check for it.
Senior hires. Usually people who have already run a Gulf project or two.
Smaller numbers for us, but steady. Network and ERP roles come up the most.
Office side roles. Gulf companies like candidates who already know local VAT and payroll systems.
Vetting
This takes longer than screening a helper or a mason, and we're fine with that.
You make the final callScans can be edited, so we ask to see the actual degree, the mark sheets and the licence. If there's a nursing or engineering council registration, we check it hasn't lapsed.
Reference letters all sound the same. So we phone at least one former manager and ask plain questions, like would they hire this person again.
Our first call isn't a chat about hobbies. An HVAC engineer will get asked about load calculations, and an ICU nurse about ventilator care.
After our call, your own technical person interviews them. Video works for most clients. We never select anyone on your behalf.
If the job needs a Gulf licence, we get the documents moving early. Candidates who need to sit an exam get pointed to the right study material.
For every shortlisted person you get one page saying what we checked and anything we found. Handy for your HR file.
Paperwork
Most delays with professional hires happen here. We start on it as soon as someone is shortlisted, without waiting for final selection.
Every Gulf health authority wants documents verified at source, plus a pass in its own exam. We help candidates with both and send you updates as they go.
Saudi Arabia asks engineers for Saudi Council of Engineers accreditation. Other GCC states have their own rules for certain roles, and we collect whatever each one wants.
For most professional visas, the degree gets attested in India first and then at the embassy. We take candidates through it so the file's ready by the time the visa is.
Candidate view
Good professionals often have two or three offers. Knowing what worries them helps you write one they'll accept. These come up in almost every call.
For a lot of senior people, this decides everything. If you offer family status, mention it in the first conversation and not the last.
They'll compare your offer with two others, line by line. Housing allowance and the yearly ticket home matter nearly as much as basic pay.
Two years is normal in the Gulf. Still, people want to know if renewal is likely, and what gratuity looks like at the end.
Nurses especially. Tell them who pays the exam fee and roughly how long it takes, and half their worry goes away.
For employers
From what we've seen, the clients who hire best do these four things.
A job title on its own could mean anything. Which projects, which software, who they report to. The more you tell us, the better the match.
Say clearly what you can't do without. Prior Gulf experience? A certain licence? Then list the nice-to-haves separately.
Strong candidates get other calls. If your interview happens two weeks after we shortlist, some of them will be gone.
People believe paper. Send the full package in writing and you'll get answers faster.
Sectors
It starts with your job description. We search, check and screen, and you interview whoever makes the list. Attestation and licensing run while your visa is being processed.
Four to eight weeks is normalFAQ
Can't find your answer here? Write to us and we'll reply within 24 hours.
Send us the job description. We'll come back within a day with how we'd search for the right person.
hr@kdahiring.comIt's the term used for professionals with a degree, diploma or licence. In our work that mostly means engineers, nurses, safety officers, IT people and accountants.
Over 50 job titles so far. Engineering and nursing are the biggest. If yours isn't on this page, send the job description anyway and we'll say yes or no quickly.
We look at the original papers, check any council registration and call a former manager. Then we send you a one-page note on each person.
Yes, it's one of our main areas. Every Gulf health authority wants documents verified and an exam passed first, so we start on that early.
In most cases, yes. They need to be accredited by the Saudi Council of Engineers. We help them pull the documents together.
Usually not. Graduates normally have ECNR passports, which don't need eMigrate clearance. We check each one anyway.
Plan for 4 to 8 weeks. Finding the person is often the quick bit. Attestation and licensing are what take time, especially for nurses.
No. Our fee is paid by the company hiring. Candidates don't pay us at any point.
Get in touch
Call us, email us or drop by the office in Lucknow. We usually reply within 24 hours.
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