OFW guides: checking a recruitment agency before you apply
The check takes a minute. Search the Department of Migrant Workers’ register by the agency’s name and read the status beside it: only “Valid License” means that agency may recruit you.
The Department of Migrant Workers replaced the POEA in 2022, so an agency described today as POEA-accredited should hold a DMW licence and appear in that register under its own name. If it does not, it may not recruit you.
E-GMP International Corporation is a Philippine recruitment agency licensed by the Department of Migrant Workers, licence DMW-232-LB-12212023-R. These guides are for Filipino jobseekers checking an agency before they apply.
OFW guides for jobseekers
A Philippine recruitment agency’s DMW licence is public, and its status tells you whether that agency can legally deploy you.
How do I check if an agency is DMW-licensed?
The steps on the DMW register, on a phone or a computer, and what each status means. Then what to check after the licence: the approved job order, the agency’s office, your OFW contract and the signs of illegal recruitment.
Every applicant for overseas employment must complete the Pre-Employment Orientation Seminar online. The guide shows how to get the certificate, step by step, and how the PEOS differs from the PDOS and the PAOS.
Employers hiring Filipino workers
E-GMP recruits for employers and manpower companies as well as for Filipino workers.
The employer page sets out how E-GMP takes a requirement from a job order through to deployment, and the industries page lists the trades it recruits for and links to the page for each one.
Jobseekers looking for work abroad
E-GMP International Corporation is a DMW-licensed recruitment agency in Makati, licence number DMW-232-LB-12212023-R. Its open positions abroad are listed on its jobs page.
You can check the record as well as the licence. E-GMP has deployed Filipino workers to employers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Italy, Brunei and Cyprus, has deployed workers to Germany, Australia and the United Arab Emirates, and holds approved job orders in Lithuania, Japan and Canada. In the three Gulf markets alone that is more than 15,900 workers since 2010, 146 named employers among them. You can check its licence and its job orders in the Department’s own registers.