E-GMP International Corporation is a DMW-licensed Philippine recruitment agency for foreign employers and agency partners, supplying skilled, pre-vetted Filipino workers across the GCC: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain. Trusted by SMC Hospitals, Kuwait employers including Tamdeen Entertainment Company, and senior HR leaders at Saudi Aramco and SABIC.
E-GMP International Corporation is a DMW-licensed Philippine recruitment agency (Licence No. DMW-232-LB-12212023-R) that recruits and deploys skilled Filipino workers to employers across the GCC. With 20+ years of experience, 30,000+ workers deployed, and 170+ companies served worldwide, E-GMP is trusted by SMC Hospitals, Kuwait employers including Tamdeen Entertainment Company, and senior HR leaders at major Gulf enterprises including Saudi Aramco and SABIC.
DMW Licence No. DMW-232-LB-12212023-R
PEACEME member: Philippine Employment Agencies & Associates for Corporate Employers in the Middle East
Cross-border hiring from the Philippines is a regulated act, not a sourcing channel you can improvise. Three risks sit with the employer before any CV is ever sent.
A foreign employer cannot lawfully hire Filipino workers except through an agency licensed by the Philippine Department of Migrant Workers. Recruiting directly, or through an unlicensed middleman, is illegal recruitment under Philippine law. The job order is invalid, the deployment is blocked, and the employer's name is attached to the violation, not just the agent's.
The DMW verifies every job order and locks the salary and role before departure. Swapping in a different contract after the worker arrives (a lower salary, a different job title) is one of the six recruitment violations Philippine regulators enforce, and it exposes the employer to money claims and blacklisting. If your local hiring practice assumes terms can be "adjusted" on arrival, Philippine deployment will not work that way.
Informal chains of sub-agents leave nobody holding the legal obligations that survive deployment: worker-monitoring duties, incident reporting, contract completion. When something goes wrong, an unlicensed chain dissolves; a DMW-licensed agency is a named, regulated entity that carries those duties on the record, with its licence at stake.
E-GMP has run this regulated path 30,000+ times over 20+ years.
The case is visible in deployment data. In 2025 alone, GCC employers drew hundreds of thousands of land-based OFW deployments: 386,699 to Saudi Arabia, 397,892 to the UAE, 160,890 to Qatar, and 106,364 to Kuwait (DMW).
Industry-wide, 80.8% of 2024 land-based OFW deployments were rehires of returning workers (DMW, 2024). Employers who hire Filipino workers tend to retain and re-engage them rather than replace them. That is the same renewal pattern behind E-GMP's 12-year, 1,250-candidate partnership with SMC Hospitals in the UAE.
The Philippines had 2.19 million overseas Filipino workers deployed in 2024 (PSA, 2024). For a direct employer, that depth means roles across trades, healthcare, hospitality, and technical specialisations can be filled without waiting on a thin bench. For a recruitment agency filling client orders, it means volume: a bench deep enough to staff large orders without scraping the bottom.
The Philippines ranks #1 globally for Business English (BEI 7.0+) and scores 63 against the 57 global average on Pearson's English index. Filipino professionals work in English, which removes friction on the mixed-nationality worksites, hospital floors, and guest-facing operations common across every GCC market. Decades of OFW deployment also mean most arrive already familiar with Gulf work culture.
Philippine overseas employment is governed by the Department of Migrant Workers, with worker protections (OWWA, OEC, pre-departure orientation) built into the system itself. Hiring through a DMW-licensed agency means documentation and contracts are handled to standard from day one. The question that follows is which licensed agency.
Hundreds of agencies are DMW licensed. Four things separate E-GMP from the listings that stop there.
SMC Hospitals in the UAE: 1,250 candidates over a 12-year partnership. Kuwait employers Tamdeen Entertainment Company, Naif Foods, and Kuwait National Cinema Company. Agency partners Maharah Human Resources and JAWA HR. And senior HR leaders at Saudi Aramco and SABIC on record endorsing E-GMP. E-GMP's roster is below, in full.
Licence No. DMW-232-LB-12212023-R, verifiable on the DMW's public registry. Every deployment runs through official Department of Migrant Workers channels: verified job order, locked contract terms, OEC documentation, monitored aftercare.
20+ years in overseas recruitment, 30,000+ Filipino workers deployed, 170+ companies served, and a 500-deployment monthly capacity, backed by a documented 429-in-one-month deployment for staffing partner JAWA HR.
Sourcing, screening, trade testing, mobilization, and post-deployment monitoring are formalised into a 19-step documented pipeline, tracked end to end on E-GMP's own E-RIS recruitment platform. One entity owns every step, with no sub-agent finger-pointing.
The master roster: employers, agencies, and endorsers across the GCC and beyond, each shown against its own market. Country-specific placement counts live on each country's hiring guide.
Saudi Arabia
SMASCOFacilities & F&B services
Al-Khorayef (KSA)Industrial & engineering
United Arab Emirates
MubadalaInvestment & industry
EtisalatTelecommunications
Kuwait
Tamdeen Entertainment CompanyEntertainment & hospitality
Kuwait National Cinema CompanyLeisure & cinema
Staffing & agency partners
JAWA HRStaffing & logistics partner
Alfalak HRStaffing partner
…and 170+ companies served across 20+ years.
Four documented engagements, each kept in its true market, covering speed under notice, sustained volume, and hard-to-fill gatekept roles.
Maharah needed service crew for on-site interviews with one week's notice. E-GMP's scalable digital sourcing put 200 screened candidates in front of Maharah's interviewers within that week.
A partnership that began in 2019 hiring cleaners for Saudi Arabia grew into an engineering-grade pipeline. E-GMP's tailored office structure and digital recruitment process deployed 429 professionals in a single month for JAWA HR, averaging 400 a month across a seven-year partnership.
Facing a drone-technology talent shortage, E-GMP proposed Filipino aircraft technicians whose transferable skills met the requirement.
E-GMP supplied reliable Filipino meat cutters for roles local hiring couldn't fill. It is the same essential-but-hard-to-staff bottleneck that slows F&B, industrial, and processing operations across the Gulf.
Since 2013, it has been a big challenge to find a good manpower recruitment agency in the Philippines... until I found E-GMP... I advise any company that needs a qualified workforce to go with E-GMP because it will save a lot of effort and recruitment hassle as well as it definitely will meet all expectations.
Naji Al Daham
HR & Support Services Consultant and VP · Saudi Aramco & SABIC, KSA
Their commitment to quality, efficiency, and understanding of our needs is unmatched... We rely on their judgment so much that we often let them select applicants on our behalf—and they deliver, every time.
Arif Almurjan
Director of Governance · Specialized Medical Center (SMC) Hospital, UAE
If you fill client orders rather than hire directly, E-GMP acts as your Philippine supply engine: volume that flexes with your order book, one accountable Manila counterparty behind the SLAs you sign with your end clients, and the post-deployment grievance and monitoring chain carried on E-GMP's side. The verified job order and documentation chain stay identical. The difference is that it scales.
JAWA HR · 429 deployed in a single month · 400/month average
“We've been working with EGMP International Corporation for 7 years, and they've been nothing short of a game-changer... EGMP isn't just a service provider; they're a trusted extension of our team.”
Allan Hadji Donor · Recruitment Executive, JAWA HR (staffing & logistics)Maharah HR · 200 screened candidates presented for interview on one week's notice
“Maharah values the expertise demonstrated by E-GMP across various processes, including candidate sourcing, recruitment, deployment, and grievance management... We express our confidence and hope that E-GMP will continue to excel as a leading human resources agency in the Philippines.”
Faisal Alkathery · Director International Recruitment, Maharah Human Resources Company, KSAE-GMP also supplies staffing partners including Alfalak HR, Enaya, and JAL HR. Agency inquiries follow the same form below. Note your end-client's destination and volumes.
E-GMP runs on its own purpose-built recruitment platform. For a GCC employer or agency partner, that means real-time visibility into your pipeline and fewer of the errors and delays that come with manual, paper-based agencies.
E-RIS eliminates 84% of manual recruitment work and saves recruiters 14+ hours every week. That time is redirected into sourcing, vetting, and moving your order forward. Every applicant's status is documented and trackable across the Job Order, Recruitment, and Mobilization modules, so when you ask where a deployment stands, the answer is on a dashboard, not in someone's inbox.
Most agencies still source the way they did a decade ago: Facebook groups, personal contacts, paper files. E-GMP rebuilt the process around data and purpose-built software, and the gap shows up in the numbers.
more qualified applicants through data-driven digital sourcing
A clear, six-stage path from job order to deployment: your view of the engagement. The full documented pipeline underneath runs to 19 steps, and it's published in full below.
You define the roles, headcount, qualifications, and timeline. E-GMP confirms the requirement and the compliant deployment route to your country.
E-GMP sources from its large candidate pool and runs digital screening through its E-RIS platform to filter for verified skills, experience, and documentation.
Technical and skilled roles are trade-tested so employers receive workers who can perform from day one, not unverified CVs.
You review and select from a qualified shortlist, remotely or via on-site interviews. E-GMP can mobilise large candidate pools at short notice.
Contracts, DMW processing, and destination-country visa documentation are handled to standard, keeping the deployment legal and contract-compliant.
Workers are deployed with onboarding and post-deployment support, so they integrate into your operation quickly and reliably.
The six stages above are the employer's view. This is the audited pipeline underneath: every deployment accounted for from first inquiry to contract completion. Steps marked in gold are DMW-gated: no legitimate Philippine agency can skip or reorder them.
Whatever GCC market you hire into, the origin side is the same regulated machine: DMW-licensed standing, the verified job order, and duties that survive deployment. This is the foundation every E-GMP placement stands on, and what an unlicensed channel silently skips.
A foreign employer cannot lawfully hire Filipino workers except through a DMW-licensed agency, and must itself be accredited (SPA or Recruitment Agreement, DMW-verified) before any job order is processed.
E-GMP (Licence No. DMW-232-LB-12212023-R, verifiable on the DMW's online registry) files your accreditation once and carries it for every order after.
The DMW Job Order system verifies your order and locks the salary and role. Contract substitution after arrival (a different pay or title) is prohibited outright.
E-GMP drafts, registers, and verifies the order, so the terms signed in Manila are the terms that arrive, cleared the first time.
Philippine regulators enforce six recruitment violations. Penalties run to blacklisting and 3–12 month suspensions for the employer's access, not just the agency's:
E-GMP matches every order to the verified job order exactly, and briefs you on your obligations as the foreign principal before you carry them.
Every GCC-bound worker passes the GAMCA/Wafid medical (mandatory across all six GCC states, valid ~90 days) plus OWWA membership, insurance, the OEC exit clearance, and pre-departure orientation.
E-GMP schedules each medical inside its validity window against your deployment date. A worker cleared to fly is a worker who boards.
Duties do not end at deployment: critical incidents must be reported within 24 hours and work-related incidents within 72, through to contract completion. Failure to report is itself one of the six violations.
E-GMP carries the monitoring and reporting chain with you: one accountable counterparty from job order to contract completion.
That is the origin-side foundation: cleared on every E-GMP deployment before a single CV is sourced, and identical wherever your operation is. What changes is the destination.
E-GMP supplies Filipino manpower across the sectors that drive the Gulf economy, each anchored to named, true-market proof.
Workforce for the Gulf's oil, gas, and industrial operations. This is the kind of work that earns E-GMP its endorsements from senior HR leaders at major Gulf enterprises including Saudi Aramco and SABIC.
Nurses, allied health, and medical professionals. This is the sector behind E-GMP's 12-year partnership with SMC Hospitals in the UAE, with 1,250 candidates deployed.
Guest-facing hospitality, entertainment, and F&B staff. This is the sector behind E-GMP's Kuwait partnerships with Tamdeen Entertainment Company, Kuwait National Cinema Company, and Naif Foods.
Skilled trades and engineering manpower for infrastructure, building, and development projects. These are trade-tested before deployment, not after arrival.
Aircraft technicians and specialised industrial roles. This is the capability behind E-GMP's work with UAE aviation and defense names ADASI and AMMROC.
Volume sourcing for overseas staffing and HR agencies. This includes endorsed partners Maharah Human Resources and JAWA HR, for whom E-GMP deployed 429 professionals in a single month.
Don't see your sector listed? Send E-GMP your role mix and headcount. We'll confirm coverage and sourcing lead time.
E-GMP grew on referrals: employers keep sending the next company. Four reasons why.
Ongoing support in legal matters, labor laws, and industry compliance. The monitoring and reporting duties don't end at deployment, and neither does the support.
Recruitment strategies tailored to your culture, values, and hiring challenges through E-GMP's KYC framework. The shortlist fits because the profiling came first.
Credential checks, in-depth interviews, and skill assessments on every candidate. Each candidate is trade-tested and documented before deployment, never an unscreened CV.
Technology plus refined workflows: the same speed-at-volume documented in the proof cases above, sustained across two decades.
The numbers behind two decades of referrals.
Filipino workers deployed worldwide
Companies served globally
Years in overseas recruitment
Alexander K. Tan has led E-GMP from inception, growing it from Asia into the Middle East and on to Europe. E-GMP's expertise spans engineering and technical, healthcare and medical, IT, finance, manufacturing, hospitality and F&B, and aviation. These are the sectors that move a GCC operation forward.
Yes. E-GMP International Corporation is licensed by the Philippine Department of Migrant Workers (DMW Licence No. DMW-232-LB-12212023-R), verifiable on the DMW's public registry. Every overseas deployment is processed through official DMW channels, so employers receive Filipino workers who are legally documented and contract-compliant.
You hire through a DMW-licensed Philippine recruitment agency. That is the legal path for overseas hiring. With E-GMP, you sign a recruitment agreement, E-GMP processes your employer accreditation and registers and verifies your job order with the DMW, sources and screens candidates, and handles visas, contracts, and OEC documentation through to deployment.
E-GMP operates on an employer-funded model in line with DMW regulations: the hiring company covers recruitment and deployment costs, not the worker. Exact costs depend on the role, volume, and destination. Request a proposal and E-GMP will itemize all DMW-regulated fees before you commit.
Typically 30–90 days from job order to deployment, depending on role, volume, and destination country. For urgent needs, E-GMP's digital sourcing surfaces screened candidates within days. In one documented case, 200 candidates were presented for in-person interviews within one week for Maharah Human Resources.
Every worker bound for a GCC state must pass the GAMCA/Wafid pre-departure medical examination, run under the Gulf Health Council and mandatory for all six GCC countries. The medical certificate is valid for roughly 90 days, so E-GMP schedules examinations inside the deployment window to avoid repeat testing.
Philippine regulations require ongoing worker monitoring: critical incidents must be reported within 24 hours and work-related incidents within 72 hours. As your DMW-licensed counterparty, E-GMP carries the monitoring and reporting duties with you through contract completion. Failures in this area are among the six recruitment violations that lead to blacklisting.
Yes. E-GMP is an active supply partner for overseas staffing firms and recruitment agencies. These include JAWA HR, a seven-year partner for whom E-GMP deployed 429 professionals in a single month, and Maharah Human Resources in Saudi Arabia. Agency partners receive the same verified job order, documentation, and monitoring chain as direct employers.
E-GMP deploys across the GCC (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain) and to markets beyond the Gulf, with 170+ companies served worldwide across 20+ years. Dedicated hiring guides are available for Saudi Arabia, Dammam and the Eastern Province, Qatar, and Kuwait.
E-GMP deployments carry a replacement guarantee of up to 90 days, subject to the conditions set out in the recruitment agreement. The exact terms (what's covered and how a replacement is processed) are agreed with you before deployment, so both sides know exactly where they stand from day one.
Named client proof, Saudization and Qiwa compliance for Saudi employers.
Eastern-Province site access, trade testing, and industrial sourcing.
130+ deployed across 15 named Qatar employers: the QVC route from Manila.
377 deployed to named Kuwait employers across F&B, hospitality, and technical roles.
Tell E-GMP what roles you need, how many, and where. As a DMW-licensed recruitment agency trusted by GCC employers and agency partners, we'll respond with a compliant staffing proposal. We respond to employer inquiries within 24 hours.
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E-GMP International Corporation · DMW Licence No. DMW-232-LB-12212023-R
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