What happened
A recruitment day, in our counting, is one employer interviewing and selecting from its pre-tested shortlist for one day — on site in Makati or live online. September 2026 had 39 of them, for 25 different employers, and between them those employers filled 629 positions. The smallest programme was two positions; the largest was a five-day round for 117 truck drivers for one Lithuanian transport company; the fastest was a three-day round for 27 construction trades for one employer in the United Arab Emirates.
What was recruited, in round numbers: machine and production operators for manufacturing (about 200 positions), professional truck drivers (117), CNC operators and setters (about 100), warehouse and logistics workers (about 75), metalworkers and welders (about 55), construction trades (42), food-processing workers (26) and a handful of hospitality roles. The mix is the Central European industrial labour market as it looks from Manila: production, logistics and metal first, construction and food behind.
Eight employers flew to Manila and recruited in person — typically a production or operations specialist and an HR representative spending two to three days in the interview rooms. Seventeen recruited online, most of them from recorded trade tests followed by live video interviews with the shortlist. Both routes produce the same thing: an employer who has personally chosen every worker, and a worker who has met the company before signing anything.
All 629 positions were recruited within September. What follows now is deployment, and it runs the same way for every selected worker: an employment contract with the employer, verified by the Migrant Workers Office with jurisdiction for the destination; the destination-country permit — Employee Card, single permit, temporary residence permit or UAE work permit, depending on the country; medical, document authentication, pre-departure orientation and the Overseas Employment Certificate. Departures follow the permits, and they will be recorded here when they happen — as the August departures were.
Twenty-five employers in one month is possible only because the recruitment calendar never stops. Sourcing runs continuously from the Prime Search candidate base — a Facebook following of 1.4 million Filipino jobseekers — and trade tests run every working day, so an employer joining the calendar is interviewing a pre-tested shortlist, not starting a search. The next recruitment windows are published on the manifest.
Deployment — what follows the September recruitment
- Employment contract with the employer, signed by the worker in Manila and verified by the Migrant Workers Office with jurisdiction for the destination.
- Destination-country permit — Employee Card (Czech Republic), single permit (Slovakia), temporary residence permit (Lithuania) or work permit and residence visa (UAE) — coordinated by us under the rules of each country.
- Medical examination at a DOH-accredited clinic; authentication of the worker's documents.
- Pre-departure orientation and the Overseas Employment Certificate.
- Send-off in Makati, flight, onboarding with the employer on site.