STEADFAST’S STORY

STEADFAST International Recruitment Corporation was formally established in Manila, Philippines in 1987. From the very beginning, the company’s incorporators aimed into becoming one of the Philippines leading manpower agencies, soliciting only the best-trained and high skilled Filipinos for overseas deployment.

As early as 1978, under a different corporate identity, the people behind Steadfast resolved to tie-up with the world’s reputable organizations and become their partner in getting the best talents. For more than a decade, Steadfast has proven its efficiency in deploying only the best personnel abroad.

The company specializes in the deployment of domestic helpers, factory workers and nurses. 2,900 Filipino workers were deployed to the United States alone until 1995 and they were all given immigrant and other visa types. Steadfast does not stop at merely deploying personnel, most of its deployed practitioners have received their immigration papers.

As early as 1978 up to the present, the group behind deploying domestic helpers, skilled workers and factory hands to Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. The company averaged 50-60 applicants a month deployed to client groups to these countries.

Humble Achievements

In 1992, Steadfast was appointed by TECO as one of the few pioneer lead agencies that deployed domestic helpers and factory workers to Taiwan, based on its proficiency and clean record with Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) and the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC), the two leading government agencies regulating the deployment of Filipino workers abroad. From 1986 to the present, the POEA ranked Steadfast as one of the Top 5 Best Agencies that deployed domestic helpers in Hong Kong. POEA Top Performance awardee in 2002 for providing overseas employment to Filipinos.

HUMBLE ACHIEVEMENTS AND ALLIANCES

In 1992, Steadfast was appointed as one of the few pioneer lead agencies that deployed workers to Taiwan, based on its proficiency and clean record with the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) and the National Relations Commission (NLRC), the two leading government agencies regulating the deployment of Filipino workers abroad. From 1986 to the present, the POEA ranked Steadfast as one of the top 5 best agencies that deployed domestic helpers in Hong Kong.

In 2001, Steadfast links arms with a US-based management consultancy firm, with a twenty-year track record of deploying thousands of nurses to the United States who will qualify for immigrant status or with other visa types. The tie-up will allow Filipino nurses to migrate to the United States with their respective families, with the chance to be deployed in California, Texas, Florida and Tennessee.

Steadfast is currently one of the outstanding and active members of the Philippines' biggest association of recruitment agencies, the Philippine Association of Service Exporters, Inc. or PASEI and the Society of Hong Kong Accredited Recruitment Agencies of the Philippines or SHARP.

Our Vision Statement

We, at Steadfast International Recruitment Corporation, envision the company to be at the forefront of the overseas recruitment business. We will be seen as a center of excellence trailblazing and espousing the best practices in the industry within the bounds of the law. Together, we shall be acknowledged by our government, the industry and by all clients we serve that Steadfast International Recruitment Corporation is one of the best recruitment companies in the world in terms of performance and management effectiveness.

Mission Statement

Steadfast International Recruitment Corporation is a full service overseas recruitment company. Its mission is to improve the quality of life of Filipinos willing to risk abroad under unfamiliar circumstances. As a partner of government in the deployment of overseas workers, it acknowledges its social responsibility by assisting and extending a helping hand to its clients not only during the recruitment process but all throughout the duration of the employment up to the time the worker returns safely in the comfort of his/her family. Through innovative and responsive action exceeding clients’
expectations:

1. We shall satisfy all our clients with superior quality service resulting in quality applicants with our excellence, leadership and integrity in the industry.
2. We shall build on the strength of our organization, our people, our management team, our financial resources and our stakeholders.
3. We shall achieve continuous growth and profitability for our company, our clients and takeholders resulting from both quality management of ongoing business and a studied wareness and development of new market opportunities.

Qulaity Policy Statement

Steadfast International Recruitment Corporation strive to maintain the high standards of recruitment management by adhering to the exacting standards under ISO 9001:2000 while at the same time exploring new and emerging best practices in the recruitment business to be applied at the workplace.

Full Service is Our Essential Concern
We are committed to:

1. Maintain and continuously reexamine the quality of service that we
   provide to all our applicants, employers and principals/brokers;
2. Continuously seek feedback so as to pro-actively meet the stated
   and/or implied needs of our applicants, employers, principals and other
   stakeholders;
3. Keep constant dialogues and meetings with rank and file to reassure
   that the requirements for quality are being fulfilled and maintained,
   and that quality improvement takes place;
4. Update employers, principals/brokers and other stakeholders on
   quality measures to sustain confidence in the company’s total quality
   management approach;
5. Self-regulate procedures and practices to ensure that the Quality
   Policy Manual, including the requirements of ISO 9001:2000 is
   substantially, if not fully, complied with.