How to ensure your New Foreign Domestic worker service you well ?
Maid Agencies
Allow me to share with you what I think. Please bear with me if you have different opinion, and write to me. Any suggestion will be helpful.
Many Employers said that you could tell how good a worker should be in the first week. And they would do everything to test worker's abilities immediately.
In actually fact that when new worker arrived your house. Initially she will worry about many thing. For example: being ill treated, employer's family, their job, ... etc. She will lose all the support from her friends and families as she is working in totally different environment. If the employer cannot manage the situation carefully. Homesick can strike at anytime.
I suggest employer shall start with relationship building. Arrange her sleeping place and where she shall keep her belonging. Talk with her. Let your children play with her and tell them respect her as their care taker. Provide the worker stamps to send letter home. Let her settle down first. Let she know that you and your family welcome her. And you are a friendly and reasonable employer.
Please tell her about our culture is different. Although your agency shall do this before deploying worker to you, one of our major different could be language. Please forgive me to say that our English is mixed with Chinese. In some cases, we can simply replace Chinese words with English. e.g. not this one la, that one, no that one, how many time I have to tell you this etc. It could be really unusual to say "May I have this ?" We may simple say "Give me this". To non-Chinese she may feel that we are impolite or sometime insulting her. Explain to her we don't mean that.
Made her feel that it is her lucky to have boss like you.
Balance her work, leisure and rest time. It is expensive to hire a worker but what if she burn out, she may give up. None of us will enjoy hiring and re-hiring.
Your worker could be very good worker as long as you could give her enough time. When we change job. How long it take to start performing our best ? It could take 3 to 6 months. And so does your worker. She could be disappointing you at the begining. With your support she will improve.
From my point of view to hire a good FDW (maid) are 10% lucky 90% management skill. 95% of my customers are Management level. Unfortunately not all of them apply their skill to manage their FDW (maid)
Even the best HR manager can't guaranty all staff they hired will stay and performing. Don't be disappointed if it happen to you.
Many Employers said that you could tell how good a worker should be in the first week. And they would do everything to test worker's abilities immediately.
In actually fact that when new worker arrived your house. Initially she will worry about many thing. For example: being ill treated, employer's family, their job, ... etc. She will lose all the support from her friends and families as she is working in totally different environment. If the employer cannot manage the situation carefully. Homesick can strike at anytime.
I suggest employer shall start with relationship building. Arrange her sleeping place and where she shall keep her belonging. Talk with her. Let your children play with her and tell them respect her as their care taker. Provide the worker stamps to send letter home. Let her settle down first. Let she know that you and your family welcome her. And you are a friendly and reasonable employer.
Please tell her about our culture is different. Although your agency shall do this before deploying worker to you, one of our major different could be language. Please forgive me to say that our English is mixed with Chinese. In some cases, we can simply replace Chinese words with English. e.g. not this one la, that one, no that one, how many time I have to tell you this etc. It could be really unusual to say "May I have this ?" We may simple say "Give me this". To non-Chinese she may feel that we are impolite or sometime insulting her. Explain to her we don't mean that.
Made her feel that it is her lucky to have boss like you.
Balance her work, leisure and rest time. It is expensive to hire a worker but what if she burn out, she may give up. None of us will enjoy hiring and re-hiring.
Your worker could be very good worker as long as you could give her enough time. When we change job. How long it take to start performing our best ? It could take 3 to 6 months. And so does your worker. She could be disappointing you at the begining. With your support she will improve.
From my point of view to hire a good FDW (maid) are 10% lucky 90% management skill. 95% of my customers are Management level. Unfortunately not all of them apply their skill to manage their FDW (maid)
Even the best HR manager can't guaranty all staff they hired will stay and performing. Don't be disappointed if it happen to you.
