hi everyone, I am going to share some inside information about maid agencies and maids with you.
who am I?? well I am someone who had been in this industry for nearly 20 years....
currently I have left this industry.... too much stress
what you are about to read might shock you, but it is the honest truth.
I started 20 years ago marketing Indonesia maid, slowly our company start marketing Philippines maid, and lastly Myanmar maid also. we are actually one of the pioneer doing Myanmar maids( if you who are reading this is from the maid industry u should by now knows who am I).
I started being a front line warrior (sales person) I am the one you speak to and showing you all those biodata and telling you which maid is good blar blar blar.....
I can honestly tell u, 90 percent of the time the sales person is lying to you.
let me explain to you why.
take a walk down bukit timah shopping centre, katong shopping centre or hougang green mall. they are the so call maid agency hub in Singapore. in bukit timah shopping centre itself, there are 60 over agencies, katong shopping centre 50 over, hougang green mall 30 over agencies. think of the competition they are facing, once you walk into their shop, they will try all ways to let you put down a deposit.
how they do it.
"sir, mam, you looking for a maid?"
"what nationality are you looking for?"
"you need the maid to take care of children , baby or elderly?"
" you prefer the maid to be single or married"
"you prefer the maid to have children of her own?"
"how old you like the maid to be?"
these are the few of the question they will ask you and whatever your answer is they will tell you
"" ah! I got this maid that suite all your needs, my boss ( or college) have been to the training centre and this maid is highly recommended!!
"yes she like children cause she have children of her own and she have the experience of taking care of children and baby!!"( or she is the eldest in the family and she took care of all her younger siblings)
"yes she can take care of sick elderly cause she took care of her own grandmother when she is sick"
" yes she can cook, she is the one who did the cooking at home, but she only know how to cook Myanmar food (or Philippines or Indonesia), but she already know the basic of cooking so for her to learn your cooking will only take few days...
" they are farmers, work hard and use to hard life, your family chores is a piece of cake to them lah"
I CAN TELL YOU THIS, ALL THIS IS BULL**T
They or their boss may never see the maid before,what they tell u is all base on the bio data which is provided to them by the overseas recruiter.
employers like you will tend to feel better if you think that we from Singapore will send people there to interview the maids and to choose the maids, but I tell you , its impossible. y? the maid they come in different batches and days, today maybe 2 will report to lodging, tomorrow maybe 3. once they reported, they will be send for medical check up, once they pass medical, their bio data will be process, and will be e mail to agencies to market. they need the maid to go Singapore asap as it will be a cost to feed them everyday. the biodata turn over rate is so high, unless the person is station there permanently it is impossible for the agencies to interview and choose the good quality maids. so what I am telling you is, its all on your luck, if you are lucky, you get a good maid, if not go back to the agencies and pay them more money to change a maid for you.
also I believe many of you have encounter this situation, after you have choose a biodata and paid a deposit, few days later the sales person will call you and tell you
" sir the maid you choose she fail her medical"
"sir the maid you choose her mother pass away she cant come"
"please come down and re choose another biodata"
WHY???
well it is like this, lets say if they only have 10 bio data that is available and after going through all of them you don't see the one you like, what can they do? they need you to put a deposit in order to secure your business and you wont go other agencies tolook at more bio data. they will bring out all the past bio data which is already sold to let you choose, no matter what they must let you choose a biodata, put a deposit first. than they will try to convince you to change to a bio data that is still available. different company have different names for this kind of cases, some called it hantu bio, dead bio, ghost bio, mati bio....etc. also when you ask for phone interview, how do you know the person you are speaking to is the person from in the biodata? also interviewing is no use, the recruiter over there will be beside the maid when you are conducting the interview they will pressure her to agree to everything you say.
they do all these just to secure your deposit so you cannot go anywhere else, some agency that I know of , when you ask for a refund, they will say account will take 1 month to process please wait.
how to choose a good maid or good agency?
maybe next time I will post again, its getting late now.
any question feel free to leave me a message I will try to reply asap
who am I?? well I am someone who had been in this industry for nearly 20 years....
currently I have left this industry.... too much stress
what you are about to read might shock you, but it is the honest truth.
I started 20 years ago marketing Indonesia maid, slowly our company start marketing Philippines maid, and lastly Myanmar maid also. we are actually one of the pioneer doing Myanmar maids( if you who are reading this is from the maid industry u should by now knows who am I).
I started being a front line warrior (sales person) I am the one you speak to and showing you all those biodata and telling you which maid is good blar blar blar.....
I can honestly tell u, 90 percent of the time the sales person is lying to you.
let me explain to you why.
take a walk down bukit timah shopping centre, katong shopping centre or hougang green mall. they are the so call maid agency hub in Singapore. in bukit timah shopping centre itself, there are 60 over agencies, katong shopping centre 50 over, hougang green mall 30 over agencies. think of the competition they are facing, once you walk into their shop, they will try all ways to let you put down a deposit.
how they do it.
"sir, mam, you looking for a maid?"
"what nationality are you looking for?"
"you need the maid to take care of children , baby or elderly?"
" you prefer the maid to be single or married"
"you prefer the maid to have children of her own?"
"how old you like the maid to be?"
these are the few of the question they will ask you and whatever your answer is they will tell you
"" ah! I got this maid that suite all your needs, my boss ( or college) have been to the training centre and this maid is highly recommended!!
"yes she like children cause she have children of her own and she have the experience of taking care of children and baby!!"( or she is the eldest in the family and she took care of all her younger siblings)
"yes she can take care of sick elderly cause she took care of her own grandmother when she is sick"
" yes she can cook, she is the one who did the cooking at home, but she only know how to cook Myanmar food (or Philippines or Indonesia), but she already know the basic of cooking so for her to learn your cooking will only take few days...
" they are farmers, work hard and use to hard life, your family chores is a piece of cake to them lah"
I CAN TELL YOU THIS, ALL THIS IS BULL**T
They or their boss may never see the maid before,what they tell u is all base on the bio data which is provided to them by the overseas recruiter.
employers like you will tend to feel better if you think that we from Singapore will send people there to interview the maids and to choose the maids, but I tell you , its impossible. y? the maid they come in different batches and days, today maybe 2 will report to lodging, tomorrow maybe 3. once they reported, they will be send for medical check up, once they pass medical, their bio data will be process, and will be e mail to agencies to market. they need the maid to go Singapore asap as it will be a cost to feed them everyday. the biodata turn over rate is so high, unless the person is station there permanently it is impossible for the agencies to interview and choose the good quality maids. so what I am telling you is, its all on your luck, if you are lucky, you get a good maid, if not go back to the agencies and pay them more money to change a maid for you.
also I believe many of you have encounter this situation, after you have choose a biodata and paid a deposit, few days later the sales person will call you and tell you
" sir the maid you choose she fail her medical"
"sir the maid you choose her mother pass away she cant come"
"please come down and re choose another biodata"
WHY???
well it is like this, lets say if they only have 10 bio data that is available and after going through all of them you don't see the one you like, what can they do? they need you to put a deposit in order to secure your business and you wont go other agencies tolook at more bio data. they will bring out all the past bio data which is already sold to let you choose, no matter what they must let you choose a biodata, put a deposit first. than they will try to convince you to change to a bio data that is still available. different company have different names for this kind of cases, some called it hantu bio, dead bio, ghost bio, mati bio....etc. also when you ask for phone interview, how do you know the person you are speaking to is the person from in the biodata? also interviewing is no use, the recruiter over there will be beside the maid when you are conducting the interview they will pressure her to agree to everything you say.
they do all these just to secure your deposit so you cannot go anywhere else, some agency that I know of , when you ask for a refund, they will say account will take 1 month to process please wait.
how to choose a good maid or good agency?
maybe next time I will post again, its getting late now.
any question feel free to leave me a message I will try to reply asap
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