anybody knows about direct hire??

[anggie78]

hi all


with regards to direct hire, will it be very tedious and troublesome to do it myself? as those agencies I approached all quoted near to $2k which I find it relatively expensive. and if the cost were to be $2k I would rather consider a new helper from an agency.

please help

[smurfy]

if pino, lucky plaza usually have agencies that does it cheaper.

[janet88]

anggie78:

hi all


with regards to direct hire, will it be very tedious and troublesome to do it myself? as those agencies I approached all quoted near to $2k which I find it relatively expensive. and if the cost were to be $2k I would rather consider a new helper from an agency.

please help

my grandmother's maid is direct hire...$2K to bring her over...documentation, first doc checkup and ticket. Insurance excluded.
btw, no free replacement.

her prev employer highly recommended her...bcos she is a full time working mum...after confinement, this filipino maid looked after employer's daughter for close to 10 years...so yaya payaya.
who would know this maid would be such a smart alec...prev employer said she can cook and make soup...compared to newbie who cannot.

[popireis]

Hi Janet_Lee88


When you said "Direct Hire" did you all went thru agency to submit the documentation or how did you all do it yourself?

My ex-Indo maid wanna come back to work for me but I oso dunno how to go about direct hiring her. If it’s gonna cost 2k then I may as well stick to my new maid till her contract ends.

[janet88]

popireis:

Hi Janet_Lee88


When you said \"Direct Hire\" did you all went thru agency to submit the documentation or how did you all do it yourself?

My ex-Indo maid wanna come back to work for me but I oso dunno how to go about direct hiring her. If it's gonna cost 2k then I may as well stick to my new maid till her contract ends.

agency settled documentation, that's why cost $2k...but maid has to get passport in her own country. brother wanted to ask former helper to help before his wife gave birth but i also worried if she can perform well...after so many years, it's hard to tell...if she cannot work, then i will get blame. that's not worth the risk.

[POA Teacher]

Is it possible to direct hire a phillipino maid (from Ph, not currently in SG)without going through an agency?

[anggie78]

thanks for all the concern I manage to find a agency that do for me, their service so far so good and very responsive where they will update me every now and then, the whole cost about $1500-$1600.


anybody who wish to engage direct service can pm me I can share the ctc

[popireis]

Hi anggie78


Are you using the same agency that heysugarbug using?

Thanks!

[anggie78]

i am not pretty sure as I found out from one of my real-life friend referral

[Dannyho]

Hi all,


Tell you abt my experience abt direct hire. I called up mom & talk with a customer service officer who assured me that I can do direct hire without going thru an agency. I have a aldy a candidate in mind & proceed to do the direct hire myself. What a joke! When I start to do all the necessary documents & started to liase with the Phillipines Embassy... I was curtly told by them that they will only deal with accredited agencies. :stupid: :stupid:
So I paid an agency a $3000 fee to get my helper. Now, after 2 months, she claimed that she missed her mother & wants to die if I don`t send her back soon. Looks like I have to fork out money to send her back asap & she havent repay me a single cent for her loan to me!!!!

Any advice from any of you would be much appreciated.

best regards,
Dannyho