Due to lack of job opportunities in their country, the existing age limit for job hiring and inadequate salary, Filipinos resort to working abroad. In order to be deployed, they would seek the help of recruitment agencies and believe and follow what the recruiters would tell them to do. Many agencies make a good fortune by "helping" people land on their desired job. Some job applicants even do desperate things to produce the needed money just to make sure that they will get that overseas job. Some even sell their valuables such as parcels of land, cars, and they even find someone to lend them cash to the extent that they would be neck deep in debt. Little that they know that some illegal and even legal recruitment agencies take advantage of them by asking too much money without even issuing a receipt. POEA strongly warn all overseas job applicants to be vigilant and smart enough not to fall victim to these schemes.
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Many recruitment agencies, including those which are duly accredited and licensed by the POEA, collects fees and not issuing the appropriate receipts to the applicants.
(I can attest to that because even my recruitment agency collected placement fee before my deployment several years ago but instead of giving me a receipt, which I asked them to give me, they gave a small piece of paper where the amount was written saying that it was a payment for my expenses bound to my country of destination. It was my first time working overseas so I hardly know about anything about it.)
Knowing the right prices could save you from abusive recruiters. In the Pre-Employment Orientation Seminar (PEOS) program of POEA where OFWs were informed about being an overseas worker, some module talks about how much you should be paying.
Please refer to the tables below for reference.
The only reason why these kinds of abuse still exist is that nobody wants to oppose and expose it.
OFWs are modern heroes, we should not remain to be milking cows of anyone.
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