EMPLOYERS: HOW WE CAN HELP YOU
Thank you for visiting our website! Professional Healthcare Recruiters is here to serve you. Since 1992, we have built a strong reputation assisting hospitals, nursing homes, rehab clinics and laboratories in meeting their staffing needs by providing them with specialized healthcare professionals that are in critical shortage in the United States. Our first priority is to provide you, the employer, with qualified and experienced healthcare professionals to fill your job opening in the least amount of time.
Frequently Asked Questions:
What types of healthcare professionals can you assist with?
- Medical Technologist
- Nurses
- Physical Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
What services do you offer employers?
- Pre-screen all applicants, making sure they have all the necessary credentials to work legally in the U.S.
- Collect all the selected applicants’ documents, and verify all documents submitted. We only send resumes of candidates to employers after their credentials are complete and fully verified.
- Assist in the interview, selection and hiring process.
- Provide copies of applicants’ résumés, licenses or certifications and references.
- Assist in processing all necessary documents once applicant has been selected.
- Provide periodic updates to employers regarding the status of the visa petition and projected arrival.
- We work with several large healthcare systems throughout the U.S. and we encourage you to ask for references of hospitals where we have placed professionals.
Why should you hire a foreign-trained professional?
In some areas of the country, it is very difficult to draw American professionals to apply for a position opening. At times, hospitals and healthcare facilities spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on advertisement and recruitment yet the position opening(s) remain open for months or even a year. The biggest advantage that U.S. employers find in hiring foreign-trained professionals is their hard working attitude. They work on any shift without complaints, take on more hours when necessary, and work during the holidays if needed. Because they are required to have an employment contract to come to the U.S. to work, employers are guaranteed that they have the position filled for the number of years stipulated in the contract. Many times, the employee will stay on the job much longer than their contract stipulates.
What are the steps involved in hiring a foreign-trained professional?
- Choose the best candidates for the job. (Employer)
- Schedule a Zoom, Skype long-distance interview with applicants. (PHR)
- Select and hire applicant. (Employer)
- Submit selected applicant's original transcript of records, copy of diploma, professional license, employer references, etc. to employer. (PHR)
- Obtain necessary certification or licensing application for selected foreign professional if required by the state. (PHR)
- Assist in preparing the labor condition application. (PHR)
- Certify and sign Department of Labor (DOL) form attesting that hired Filipino professional will be paid the actual wage for the occupation at the place of employment; that his/her employment will not adversely affect the working conditions of other workers; that there is no current strike, lockout or labor dispute in the hospital; and that a notice of this filing is posted in a conspicuous place in the hospital/clinic. (Employer)
- Provide specific instruction as to what forms, documents and fees are required for submission to the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services). (PHR)
- Provide assistance to hired professional in their home country for visa interview at the U.S.Embassy; finalize all government clearances and departure documents; assist in making airline reservation to a designated port of entry into the U.S; and provide assistance at the airport upon departure of healthcare professional. Assist employer in completing forms required by the foreign professional’s home country before released for U.S. departure. (PHR)
- Meet hired professional at the airport of final destination. (Employer)
- Assist in relocation of hired professional. (Employer)
What if we hired a Filipino Professional(s) already and we found out that we need accreditation through POLO in order to get our hired Filipino the clearance to leave the Philippines?
- Most employers outside of the Philippines are not aware that since the Labor Code of the Philippines was established in 1974, direct hiring is prohibited except through the assistance of an approved recruitment agency. This was established to protect Filipino workers. Employers are required to provide certain benefits in order to get clearance for the Filipino worker to leave the Philippines to work abroad. PHR is an approved and accredited agency to be able to help foreign employers.
- Going through POLO in Washington DC is one way to obtain this clearance, but the document requirements are so long and it could take months to go through this process.
- Contact PHR to ask for this service and assistance. We normally get employers accredited in 2-3 weeks from filing the accreditation application through PHR. Not only that, we can get an employer accredited for up to 3 years so they can hire as many professionals without going through POLO or another accreditation.
Immigration Fees
- $460 Basic visa petition filing fee
- $500 Fraud Prevention and Detection Fee
- $0/$750/$1500 American Competitiveness & Workforce Improvement Act of 1988 (ACWIA) fee. This fee is waived if employer is a not-for-profit entity with proof of affiliation with a teaching university or a research institution, or a not-for-profit entity engaging in an established curriculum-related clinical training or students register at the institution.
- $2,805 If employer chooses a 15-day premium processing. This means that instead of the normal 3-6 month wait for the visa process, a response from USCIS is guaranteed within 15 working days.
PHR Fees
We guarantee the LOWEST fee you’ll ever find for direct placement services. If you can prove that our competitors offer a lower fee, we will match it. Our recruitment and placement fees differ for each profession. Please contact us for more information. Professionals are employees of the hospital.
