AIM-Progress / WBCSD Responsible Recruitment Interactive Mapping Tool
Worker voice-driven ethical recruitment
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Overview

The tool brings employers and recruitment agencies together to identify strengths and weaknesses of their current recruitment practices, receive worker voice feedback, and make improvements, so that jobseekers are more ethically recruited, screened, processed, transported and managed. Engagement of jobseekers early in the migration process, often before they even leave their own home village or pay the first fees to brokers, allows worker voice to drive ethical recruitment from beginning to end, capturing information on fees and treatment even at the very beginning stages of recruitment where most debt bondage begins.

Activities / Outputs / Results

The Issara Institute Ethical Recruitment Program is integrated with Issara’s Inclusive Labour Monitoring (ILM) work.

Innovative collaborative approach to involve all parties at pre-departure stage:

  • Meetings and collaboration between employers and recruitment agencies to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their recruitment practices.
  • Jobseeker and worker feedback through Issara's worker voice channels validate how jobseekers and workers are treated within the recruitment process, and how the process is really improving overtime.
  • Issara and recruitment agencies collaboration with CSOs in the origin country to improve reach and trust and help reduce worker indebtedness, vulnerability, and recruitment costs by eliminating the need for informal brokers.