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Foreign Worker Recruitment Made Easy

Great Labor offers staffing solutions for businesses by connecting them with individuals under temporary work visa programs. Carrying years of experience recruiting contingent workforce, Great Labor provides its clients with H-2A and H-2B staffing solutions.

In an interview with Manage HR, John Dees, owner of Great Labor, sheds light on how the company leverages its expertise in recruiting candidates who lend their talents and expertise to organizations on a temporary basis.

What Great Labor Offers

Great Labor specializes in foreign labor recruitment, which includes worker identification, consular processing, and overseas transit of employees. We source our contingent labor from Mexico and the Northern Triangle of South America. Our proximity to the countries and the workforce’s familiarity with the H2A visa program make the three-day U.S. Consulate process and transit much easier. The Department of State has reserved some visa slots for workers from the Northern Triangle of South America—Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador—to boost their economies and stop the train of migrants from presenting themselves at the southern border. This is also a contributing factor in our primary focus on that region.

Great Labor helps employers find the employees they are looking for. We engage with them, try to understand their needs, and reach out to our international contacts to find people with the desired skill set. After evaluating their skills, we schedule their consulate appointment at the nearest U.S. consulate. We organize and implement the whole process, from employees’ homes to the three-day interview process, where the U.S. Consulate fingerprints them and carries out a biometric background check and a series of interviews. Once the visa process is done, our team assists the candidates in their transportation from the U.S. consulate to the employer’s work site and with the required paperwork. It’s a tedious task, but we have been doing it for seven years and counting.

Obstacles Great Labor faced along the way

In the aftermath of the pandemic, border restrictions in many nations have made the consular process difficult. Even after the restrictions are withdrawn, it is difficult to distinguish which nations have travel protocols in place and which do not. To add to it, we have been having issues like a shortage of pilots and ground staff with airlines, which further slows down our process. While we have managed to overcome most problems, we have no control over the government’s scrutiny of the contingent workforce program that impacts the visa availability for migrant workers.

How Great Labor caters to client’s needs

Great Labor, as an organization in the contingent workforce industry, connects compatible workers and employers. Our team supports the workers with every issue from the moment they arrive, be it a need for training or a language barrier, making them great candidates for employers. Our team works with clients during the initial staffing process and throughout the term for which the employees are employed.

We have been active and have taken on a good deal of huge contracts, and none of them has discontinued our services or been unhappy about them after enrolling. This attests to our credibility.

Great Labor’s distinctive edge in the marketplace

We have a distinct edge on the compliance side. Since Great Labor is the preferred vendor for a law firm that supports visa programs, we have a direct point of contact to run our queries through and get trained on program changes as they are released.

Great Labor collaborates as a team with its employees and subcontractors. Together, we aspire to sustain in the industry for centuries.