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On work, recruitment and what we have learned connecting the two.

5 August 2026 · 2 min read

How to hire a foreign worker in Portugal

Hiring someone who lives outside the European Union follows an order that catches many companies off guard: the contract comes first. It is the contract that lets the person apply for a work visa at the Portuguese consulate in their country, and only after arriving do they register with AIMA and Social Security. Companies that start by looking for the person and leave the paperwork for later find out too late that the process has to run the other way around.

4 August 2026 · 1 min read

Temporary work or direct hiring: which one fits your operation

The difference between the two comes down to a single question: who is the employer. In temporary work it is the agency, and the company pays for a service. In direct hiring the person joins the company's own staff, with everything that brings in contract, costs and responsibility. Everything else that usually gets discussed about cost and flexibility follows from this.

3 August 2026 · 2 min read

Recruiting in Nepal: what Portuguese companies should know

Nepal is Indica7's most established recruitment corridor, and there is a practical reason for that: it is a country with labour emigration organised for decades, with licensed agencies, familiar consular processes and workers used to working abroad. None of this is a detail. It is the difference between a process that runs and a process that stalls on the first badly prepared application.