When you hire a servant maid to clean you office or home, you are permitting her to access to your personal belongings.
So before recruiting a maid, you should ask certain questions to find out about her background information and personal credentials.
First thing is that, you should inquire your friends, relatives or acquaintances for their personal experience with the servant maids.
You then prepare a list of your expectations on what you want her to do.
You must ask in advance about the rates for various jobs or cleaning services and whether you will need any owner insurance.
Find out what are the tax implications if you are going to hire a independent maid on contract basis.
To determine about your responsibilities as a recruiter, you can collect information from local and federal tax offices.
If you are recruiting servant maid through an agency, check its reliability, referrals of current clients, about their maid's insurance policies, how long they are doing this business etc.
Ask whether they guarantee their servants and whether they performed any background checks on their maids.
If possible you can collect details of the maid's previous clients and can have interview with them about the maid's performance and attitude.
You can also enquire to the previous clients about whether the maid will bring her own vacuums, cleaners, mops, rags, pails and polishes or you need to provide them.
Make sure to give a special training or advice n how to clean the antique furniture, oriental carpets, and sensitive show pieces; also explain them how to handle with these items.
You may also requests for special jobs like occasional cooking, car washing, taking care of pets or babies etc, but ask about the rates and their experience for each job before allotting to them.
You must be certain of the rates based on the work you allot them; size of your house or room; maid from agency; and their sincerity in work.