A recruitment industry consultant said that Filipinos should not set their hopes too high on what was publicized previously about thousands of jobs awaiting for Filipinos abroad.

This is after President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo went to Dubai in United Arab Emirates (UAE) to look for investment and employment opportunities for displaced OFWs or Overseas Filipino Workers because of the global financial crisis.

Even Dubai nowadays has many unemployed foreign workers and its status as a city of abundant job opportunities is already gone. This is according to Emmanuel Geslani, a former vice chair and three-term director of the Philippine Association of Service Exporters Inc. (PASEI).

Malacañang described the UAE as the workplace of choice of Filipino workers in the Middle East, next only to Saudi Arabia. But PGMA’s meeting with possible employers for OFW in the UAE can’t assure that there will be more jobs for OFWs.

In a phone interview by Philippine Daily Inquirer, Geslani reminded aspiring workers in Dubai to ensure that their employers would grant them a working visa or permit upon arriving in Dubai. Geslani said, “My advice to [Filipinos] is: Don’t go there for nothing so you will not suffer.”

Geslani said that the number of displaced workers in UAE are expected to increase in the next months as the UAE Labor Ministry have been getting thousands of complaints from expatriate workers regarding unpaid salaries and termination without payment of salaries.

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