Caregiver Work Abroad

TESDA or Technical Education and Skills Development Authority is a government agency charged with uplifting the manpower skills and competency of Filipinos through various TESDA Courses and Training Center. And to accomplish this task, TESDA formulates the manpower and skills plan for all TESDA courses to be implemented by various TESDA accredited training center. Among [...]

The CPA board exam result for October 2009 was already released by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). There an overall 2,888 CPA licensure exam / board passers from 6,929 takers. The Certified Public Accountant Licensure Examination was given this October, 2009 by the Accountancy Board from cities in Manila, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Cagayan De Oro, [...]

When applying for caregiver jobs abroad being advertised by Philippine recruitment agencies, it is important that the caregiver jobs applicants first check with the POEA if there is an existing Job Order approved by the POEA for the said caregiver jobs. Second, it is also important that all caregiver jobs applicants must make it a [...]

The POEA or Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has warned anew against internet job scams being circulated on the web. Several employment opportunities allegedly being offered by local and international agencies had already victimized Filipino workers, according to the reports POEA earlier received. The public is asked to be aware of internet job scams by Reserve [...]

The International Au Pair Association or IAPA, is the global trade association for every qualified au pair agency who are actively engaged in the au pair industry. IAPA was founded in 1994 by every leading au pair agency and was formally announced at the WYSTC (World Youth and Student Travel Conference) in Vancouver, Canada. The [...]

Last year, the United Kingdom began implementing the new caregiver requirements based on the new points system that were substituted for most of their existing work-based categories wherein a caregiver is classified under the Tier 2 General which is the skilled worker category. The skilled worker category are for individuals coming to the UK with [...]

On September 2008, Ontario MPP Peter Fonseca was appointed Minister of Labor when he heard of the many problems of the Live- in Caregiver Program including the case of Juana Tejada. For those who didn’t know, is the Filipino caregiver in Canada who was nearly rejected as an immigrant when a medical exam showed that [...]

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration or POEA has issued an advisory regarding a scam involving student visa UK and the  illegal recruitment practice by Filipinos based in London. The said illegal recruitment lured Filipino students to go to London on a student visa UK to attend the London School of Health and Management Studies. According [...]