Choose
Before you meet a candidate.Define the job, price the hire properly, and ask the questions that actually predict whether a placement lasts.
Book 1, Hiring a Domestic Helper in Singapore. 103 pages.
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Three workbooks, one framework: choose, lead, do. Each one covers a different moment.
Start here
Not hired yet. Book 1. Define the job, price the year, run the interview.
She arrives soon, or arrived recently. Book 2. The fortnight, the standards, the cadence.
She is settled and you want the practical standards in her hands. Book 3.
Lead
Day one to day ninety.Onboarding, one written standard the two of you agree on, and a check-in rhythm that catches problems while they are still small.
Book 2, The Domestic Helper Onboarding Book. 91 pages.
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Do
Day one onwards.The practical standards themselves. Cleaning, laundry and home health for humid and air-conditioned homes. Written for her, bought by you.
Book 3, The Domestic Helper Training Handbook. 112 pages.
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Read moreWhat these books do not do
They do not certify anyone. The Shared Standard is not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by the Ministry of Manpower or any government agency.
They do not give legal advice. Every regulatory figure is sourced to the agency that sets it, with the date the source page was last updated, and requirements change. Check the source before you rely on a number.
They do not tell you what people from any country are like. Where country of origin matters it is because a regulator has set a rule that binds you, and those rules are stated with their source.
How they are made
Written by Lisa Gewald out of an MBA thesis on leadership in the household and trust in cross-cultural teams, and a survey of employers in Singapore.
Read in draft by a panel of first readers before release, and revised against what they found.
Format, price and delivery
All three are sold here as PDF workbooks, direct from this site and delivered immediately. These are books you print, write in, and leave on the kitchen counter, so you print the pages you are working on rather than carrying the whole thing around, and you print a page again when it changes.
Book 3 is the exception worth planning for. It is hers to keep, so print it once, in full, and give it to her.
All three are first edition, 2026. Every regulatory figure in them was checked against its primary source in August 2026 and printed with that date, so you can see how current any number is without taking our word for it.
When you buy, you get the file straight away. Payment takes you back to a page on this site with your download on it. Keep that page: it is your link, it works for 30 days and up to five downloads, and nothing is sent by email. If you lose it, write to [email protected] from the address you paid with and it is sorted out by hand. There is no account to create and no subscription.
Every copy is made for the buyer. Your name, your email address and the date of purchase are printed in the footer of every page, which is what lets a workbook be sold at this price instead of being locked behind an account. The terms of sale set out what you may do with it.
Book 1 is on sale now. The other two follow when they are ready.
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