Employers expect form maid agencies in Malaysia to find and recruit
domestic helpers with varieties of good characteristics. However, finding a
perfect domestic helper is a tough job. Maid agencies and employers need to find
out the good characters of a maid. The purpose
of this article is to extend the employer’s knowledge about the attributes that
a housemaid should have before recruiting and most importantly the ways they can
assess these attributes.
Based on the job offer/ scope and employer’s preferences they have
for a maid, physical appearance of a maid can be scrutinized like height
and weight; age range and family status of the maid; single, married, with
children or without. Though, assessing Personality Traits and characteristics
of a maid to match with employer’s family before hiring is the most difficult
part. In a short sentence, “attitude is everything”
Personality traits are distinguishing qualities or
characteristics that are the embodiment of an individuals. They are the
habitual patterns of behaviour, temperament and emotion. In order to give the
best maid service in Malaysia, our expert team in DG- Malaysia Maid Agency based
on their vast experiences tries to uncover the details of the most important personality
traits that a maid should have and in the next article the methods that an employer
can evaluate each of these traits will be discussed.
First and foremost, a maid must be empathetic. The primary focus of
work is on the wants and needs of the employer and family. A maid with empathy
enables her to understand employer’s motivations, needs, and emotions more
deeply, and she can use that understanding to do better work for them. empathy
is an essential quality for maid to develop. Being empathetic lets her look at
things from different perspectives and internalize it.
Having empathy comes from focusing on someone else’s needs,
struggles, and feelings. It requires that she opens her heart to them
(employer’s family) and put their needs before her own. She needs to be open to
many different types of employers from many different cultures. But you can’t
connect with people when you’re feeling worried, defensive, angry, frightened,
or ashamed. Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with
heart, seeing with eyes. If there is any good maid, she lies in the ability to
get the employer’s point of view and sees things from that person’s angle, as
well as from her own.
Being an effective maid requires great drive, enthusiasm, and
focus. To sustain the level of effort and concentration that the work demands, maid
must have a passion for her work. She must love the employers job offer work
and she’ll have the motivation to continually improve her skills and expand her
areas of competency. When the work is with passion, she can reach her full
potential. Work is going to fill a large part of her life, and the only way to
be truly satisfied is to do what she believes is great work. And the only way
to do great work is to love what you do. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in
the work.
Listening well is the key to effective communication. Focusing on
both what employers say and how they say it ensures that a maid accurately
receives the messages from employer communicate with her. Paying attention to
their use of language, tone of voice, body language, gestures, and emotional affect
increases the probability that a maid will be able to correctly interpret their
meaning and understand what she hears. Listen for employer’s ideas, not just to
their words. When she listens well, she’ll experience fewer misunderstandings
and make fewer mistakes. “If we were supposed to talk more than we listen, we
would have two tongues and one ear.”
Responsible is “Capable of being trusted.”— and kindness” is “The
quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.”
It’s essential that a maid do her best to meet expectation of her employer.
If a maid promises to do something, she should try very hard to fulfill that
promise. However, sometimes things change, or circumstances may prevent a maid
to do good. But in either of these cases, it’s maid responsibility to discuss
the problem with employer and, together, determine the best way forward.
To prevent disappointing employers, a maid must avoid
over-promising and under-delivering. It’s important to be respectful and treat employer as she would like them to be treated. Being kind to one
another makes the workplace a happy place to live. When your maid is struggling,
show them compassion and help them to get through tough times.
Being honest means telling the truth and being straightforward and
open with employer. personal integrity always tries to do the right thing,
regardless of whether anyone would ever know what they’ve done. They have a
strong moral compass. Integrity is a valuable quality in everyone. Maid honesty
and integrity will engender trust in employer. Employers to hire
a maid, they must look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and
energy.
There are many more attribute that a maid must have, Hardworking, Flexibility,
Caring, Trustworthy, Attentive, Loyal. Get in touch with DG- maidagency Malaysia
to find a
maid who has most of the qualities mentioned above.
