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- The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) warned overseas job applicants anew to avoid travel agencies illegally recruiting Filipino workers for overseas employment. - Travel agencies offering overseas jobs are considered illegal recruiters because they have no license to do so. Job applicants should always make sure they are dealing with a legitimate recruiter with job orders approved by the POEA  - As part of their modus, the said travel agencies present dubious certificates of registration from the Department of Trade and Industry, which even if valid is not licensed by the POEA to engaged in recruitment activities. The POEA urges the public to disregard unsolicited job offers made by travel agencies, consultancy firms and training centers, as well as report this kind of illegal recruitment schemes and activities to POEA Operations and Surveillance Division by sending an email at poea_airb_osd@yahoo.com or contact the numbers 8722-1192/8568-0786

Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) Administrator Bernard Olalia on Wednesday warned the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) against illegal recruiters particularly those engaged in third country recruitment. Olalia said unscrupulous individuals or groups are using the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic to entice Filipino workers abroad by offering higher salaries. “We would like to remind our OFWs against third country recruitment. They are being offered jobs with high salaries. Avoid them, Don’t be victims,” he said during the weekly forum of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). He said illegal recruiters are using different social media platforms in offering supposedly high-paying jobs to Filipinos employed overseas. Olalia advised the Filipinos abroad to always check and validate the invitation at any Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLOs), Labor Attachés, and Philippine embassies. Aside from validating the invitation, he said t

PAALALA at TIPS laban sa mga ILLEGAL RECRUITER - Kung masyadong maganda ang mga pangako, mabilisang processing, tourist visa lang ang ibibigay, naninigil agad (kahit na barya lang yan), at hindi dadaan sa POEA - hindi lang malamang, siguradong #Scam at #IllegalRecruiter yan. Kung may oras po tayo sa Facebook, dapat may oras din tayo mag-search sa website ng POEA (www.poea.gov.ph) kung licensed recruitment agency ang kausap natin, at kung may approved sila na job order. What is illegal recruitment What are the penalties for illegal recruitment? Identify an illegal recruiter How to avoid illegal recruitment Modus operandi of illegal recruiters Policy on immigration consultants Tips to job applicants using the internet in job search Top 10 Employment Scams What is Illegal Recruitment? Any act of canvassing, enlisting, contracting, transporting, utilizing, hiring or procuring workers and includes referring, contract services, promising or advertising for employment