POEA top performer awardee opens Cebu recruitment office

CEBU CITY (June 24) -- An agency awarded by the Philippine Overseas Employment Authority (POEA) as "Top Performer" for four consecutive years now since 2002 has expanded its operations in Cebu to serve overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the Visayas and northern Mindanao.

Reliable Recruitment Corporation opened this month its Cebu office at the second level of Raintree Mall after 25 years of deploying OFWs worldwide from its corporate headquarters in Ermita, Manila. It also operates branches in the Ilocos region.

"We came to Cebu for the convenience of our OFW clients and their relatives and to those who dream to seek greener pastures abroad," said Zozimo S. Cabulisan, president and CEO of the company that holds POEA License No.POEA-004-LB-053106.

"Cebuanos and those from the other provinces in Central and Eastern Visayas and the whole of the northearn Mindanao need not fly to Manila to apply and process their papers," he said. "When they fly, that will already be to their country of destination."

As the Reliable Cebu office opens, the company is offering a "Fly Now, Work First, then Pay Later" program to clients who will seek for employment Down Under, particularly in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore, disclosed Arlene Tongco, Reliable–Cebu branch officer-in-charge.

The company also eploys workers to Oman, Lebanon and Israel, added Tongco who announced that their clients will only pay for their agency and processing fees when they begin to receive their salaries abroad. "They will not even have to pay in full right away but on a staggered basis," she pointed out.

"Dili lalim tinu'od nga makalarga abroad pero dili na karon kinahanglan pa sa pamilya nga ipamalgya ang mga baka'g baboy o' isanla ba ang yuta o' pinuy'anan aron lang makalarga ang ilang minahal ug gisaligan," she said. (A family need not sell livestock or pawn properties to raise money for a bread winner to go abroad.)

Tongco said the company invested so much on the program "because we truly want to help our fellow Filipinos alleviate themselves from poverty." She also noted the program assures the company's clients that a legitimate and a decent job await them before even leaving the country.

Those interested to work abroad through Reliable-Cebu may call the office at 254-9698, send an email at reliablecebu@yahoo.com or browse the company website.