www.poea.com.ph-the site that gets filipinos work aborad
Www.poea is what you key in if you are a Filipino seeking greener pastures abroad.
over six million Filipinos, roughly ten percent of the population of the Philippines is working abroad or has worked abroad.
The POEA or Philippine Overseas Employment Agency is the over lord of job websites in a country where the GDP is substantially bolstered and dependent upon overseas worker’s remittances
Over 2 billion dollars per quarter is remitted to the coffers of the Philippine Republic by these migrant workers
To seek jobs the Filipinos visit the website www.poea.gov and look for POEA “open jobs” most of these jobs are located in the Middle East and Europe. Saudi Arabia is one of the foremost importers of Filipino labor. For more than three decades the Filipinos have helped build and maintain Saudi infrastructure. The oil wells would stop if not for these “pinoy” workers.
Another industry dominated by Filipino workers is the maritime industry – 3 out of 10 seamen are Filipno, That’s thirty percent of the seafaring community! From cruise liners to super tankers, there is not one ship in the sea today that does not have a Filipino crewman
Fiipino caregivers in Israel, Canada and the USA have all been referred by the POEA website. Italy has 75,000 documented “filipini” domestics, all have at one time or another passed through the same website
So the next time you come across the web address www.poea.gov , take a minute to understand what those twelve characters mean to six million Filipinos abroad.
