A meat-processing plant in Hungary was struggling with a persistent staff shortage in production. The solution was a carefully selected team of skilled Indian and Filipino workers, who became the stable backbone of production within a few months.

Our client, a meat-processing plant in Hungary, had for months been unable to find suitably skilled workers for its production lines. Meat processing is physically demanding work that requires hands-on experience, and reliable candidates are increasingly hard to find on the Hungarian labour market: some new hires moved on after a few weeks, and the constant shortage put both production plans and capacity utilisation at risk. The plant needed a stable team committed for the long term, not yet another round of training.

During the needs assessment we set out the requirements of the role: experience in meat processing, physical resilience, basic communication skills and long-term commitment. Because the plant wanted to fill a larger number of positions at once, we based the search on two source markets that are equally strong in skilled meat-processing work: India and the Philippines. Searching in parallel gave us a wider candidate pool and allowed faster recruitment without compromising on professional standards. After professional screening, video interviews and background checks, we put together a team of twelve skilled Indian and Filipino workers.

Once the selection was made, we handled the entire permit and immigration procedure for all twelve workers at once, as a group, and then coordinated travel, post-arrival paperwork and the logistics of starting work, so that the plant could focus on its own operations throughout. Coordinating a larger group arrival is far more complex than bringing in a single worker, and that is exactly the burden we took off our client’s shoulders.

The full team started work within a few months and quickly became the stable backbone of production. Arriving together as a larger group, the workers supported one another and found their feet faster in their new workplace and new country. Today the plant runs with a predictable, skilled and committed workforce and capacity it can plan around, free from the burden of constant re-recruitment and retraining.

M. G. · 12 November 2025