DMW-043-LB-07242026-PL

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Why us

Interview them yourself. As many rounds as you need.

Sofielle Global is a DMW-licensed recruitment and deployment agency in Cebu with a representative office in London. You meet every candidate you are considering — video interviews around your timezone, as many rounds as it takes, before anything is signed.

Our origin

We work from your job order, not a CV pile.

Overseas employers keep asking the same question about a CV from the Philippines: can you show me this person is actually prepared? Most agencies cannot, because they forward a certificate without ever having seen what sits behind it.

Our process starts with your job order. We document the role and the package first, then source against it — sometimes from candidates already in our pool, sometimes by recruiting specifically to your brief. We tell you which it is.

Agency at a glance

DetailValue
LicenceDMW Licence No. DMW-043-LB-07242026-PL
Registered nameSofielle International Recruitment Solutions Corporation
Head officeCebu, Philippines
Representative officeLondon, United Kingdom
Corridors servedJapan · Malaysia · Ireland
Roles deployedCaregivers and healthcare assistants · approved semi-skilled trades
Candidate sourceCertificate holders from any accredited school
Worker feesNo recruitment, placement or processing fee, ever

Engagement

How the Philippine side runs, step by step.

This is our half, and it is the same wherever we are deploying to. What happens on your side — the permit, the visa route and the local registrations — differs by country, and each corridor page sets that out on its own terms.

  1. 01

    Requirement briefing

    We document your role profile, resident acuity, shift patterns, accommodation arrangements, salary and contract terms, plus the compliance documents your jurisdiction requires.

  2. 02

    Accreditation and documentation

    We complete DMW job-order accreditation for your organisation and verify the employer documents needed for lawful deployment from the Philippines.

  3. 03

    Sourcing against your order

    Some orders fill from candidates we already hold; others we recruit to your brief. Either way we check certification and experience against the order, and handle the documents lawful deployment requires, before a profile reaches you.

  4. 04

    Your interviews

    Panel or one-to-one interviews, remote or on-site in Cebu, arranged around your timezone. We host, translate where needed, and record outcomes.

  5. 05

    Contracting and mobilisation

    Employment contract verification, the medical and clearance chain, the visa file prepared from the worker's side, OEC issuance, pre-departure orientation and flight coordination. The work permit itself is applied for by you in your own jurisdiction.

  6. 06

    Arrival and aftercare

    We meet workers at the airport and see them to where they are staying, then run scheduled welfare check-ins through the settling-in period. Your management team has a named contact throughout, through our London-based representative.

Corridors

Three corridors open, one in preparation.

Japan

Accepting and fulfilling job orders. Nursing care only — kaigo facilities and group homes on the Specified Skilled Worker route. Kaigo is the one field requiring three tests rather than two, so language standing is the first filter on any shortlist. The corridor is running rather than planned — we are deploying to it, not only taking orders against it.The Japan guide

Malaysia

Accepting job orders, but not a care corridor. Malaysia’s semi-skilled permit scheme covers manufacturing, construction, plantation, agriculture, defined services sub-sectors and mining. Employers work through a licensed Malaysian recruitment agency, against a sector quota granted before recruitment can begin.The Malaysia guide

Ireland

Accepting job orders. Caregivers and healthcare assistants for nursing homes and homecare providers on the General Employment Permit route. The permit and the Labour Market Needs Test stay with the employer; we source against the order alongside them and run the Philippine half.The Ireland guide

Malta

Not open to job orders yet. Malta is in preparation, and this guide is published ahead of it. Care staff for Maltese providers run on the Single Permit route, where health and elderly care is treated as a priority category. The labour market test runs three weeks, shorter than most of Europe.The Malta guide

Who bears which cost

Cost itemBorne by
Recruitment & placement feeEmployer
Document processingEmployer
Visa & permit feesEmployer
Airfare to destinationEmployer
Medical examinationEmployer
Recruitment, placement & processing feesNever charged to the worker

We publish this table because ethical recruitment is a compliance matter for you as much as for us. Nothing is recovered from the worker's salary at any stage.

How we work

Three commitments we do not trade away.

Ethical recruitment

We never charge workers any recruitment, placement, or processing fee. All costs are employer-borne, and nothing is later recovered from wages.

Evidence over assertion

We say where a candidate came from and what we checked. If a profile came from our existing pool rather than a search against your brief, you will be told.

No exclusive training arrangement

We accept certification from any accredited training institution in the Philippines. Enrollment at any particular school is never a condition of deployment, whatever the role.

Interviews

Nobody is hired from paper alone.

A CV tells you what someone has done. It does not tell you how they speak to a resident, how they handle being corrected, or whether they will still be with you in a year. So we do not ask you to hire from one.

  1. 01

    First round, on video

    Shortlisted candidates meet you by video, scheduled around your timezone rather than ours. Panel or one-to-one, whichever suits how you normally hire.

  2. 02

    As many further rounds as you want

    Bring in your Director of Nursing for a second look, run a scenario round, or put a candidate in front of the team they would join. We arrange each one — there is no cap and no charge per round.

  3. 03

    Someone from Cebu on every call

    Our team joins to handle scheduling, connection problems and any language support needed, so a technical hitch never costs a candidate their chance or you your morning.

  4. 04

    Decline anyone, for any reason

    You are never asked to justify a no. If a shortlist is not right, we go back and build another one — that is the work, not an inconvenience.

  5. 05

    Or come and do it in person

    Operators who would rather interview face to face are welcome in Cebu, and we will arrange the whole day around it.

Every interview happens before a contract exists. Nothing is signed, by you or by the candidate, until you have met them and decided for yourself.

Due diligence

Check us before you commit.

Everything we claim is checkable. Our licence number can be verified against the Department of Migrant Workers register, and the deployment chain described on the corridor pages is public regulation you can read for yourself.

For any candidate we put forward, ask what we screened and what we did not. An agency that will not tell you the difference is asking you to take a CV on trust.

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