Recruiting employees abroad

The Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional (IEFP) (Employment and Professional Training Institute) helps the companies find employees on other countries.

Learn more about the recruitment and employees selection services abroad and submit your job offers. This service is free of charge.

Service channels

Learn where you may submit your request and what are the advantages of each channel
  • recruit now
    Available at anytime

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  • Contact an IEFP Employment Service to obtain support for recruitment and selection of workers.

    Free

    See the 'How to' field for the various information on this service.

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Who can recruiting employees abroad?

What is the Price to recruiting employees abroad?

It is free of charge.

How recruiting employees abroad?

Online

Register job offers

  1. Access the iefponline portal.

If you are already signed in on the portal, use your access data.

If you are not signed in on the portal, sign in or use one of the following authentication methods:

  • the access data to the Direct Social Security
  • the Citizen Card, PIN codes and card reader
  • the Digital Mobile Key.
  1. On the portal, to register the job offers, access “Employer > Submit an Offer” and define:
  • the position and the duties
  • the profile of the employee you are seeking
  • the conditions offered.

To define the geographic area where you want the offer to be announced, do as follows:

  • for European Union countries, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, on the form, check “yes” on “EURES Network”
  • for other countries, on the form, check “yes” on “international recruitment”.

Search for employees

On the EURES - The European Job Mobility Portal, you may search for the curriculums of the registered applicants. The portal includes job-seekers of European Union countries or Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

Consult useful information

On the Recruiting abroad page of the IEFP portal, you may find useful data on the recruitment of employees abroad, such as:

On the location

Go to an employment service of the IEFP network and request support for the recruitment and selection of employees non-residing in Portugal.