February 2012
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Cebu, a growing Hub for Mobile Apps Development
Cebu’s academe sector aims to forge the province as a center for mobile applications development, believing this skills niche is an competitive advantage in bringing more investors and better employment for Cebu’s IT graduates.
Mobile technology is fast becoming ever-present, the potential is huge for the Philippines.
Cebu Educational Development for Information Technology...
January 2012
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Graduates 2012: A Bright Future Waits in BPO
March is fast approaching and soon, there will be a new batch of young adults joining the world of jobs and employment.
To the soon-to-be graduates of 2012, advanced congratulations (!) and here are some things to look forward to when you apply and get hired in BPO Philippines.
Achieve Independence When working, you will learn how to live practically by yourself. Especially if...
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How to be Happy at Your Job
Start, work and end every day in BPO Philippines happy by trying out these tips.
CONSIDER PROMOTIONS CAREFULLY
Though getting promoted can be a happy occasion for one’s career, longer work hours, demanding workload and more stressful responsibilities can come with the higher pay and position.
Unless this is what you really want to achieve, you’re probably better off working in...
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Secure your Career Chances
Prevent career suicide and not ruin your chances for continuous employment in BPO Philippines by not doing any of the following negative habits or practices in your workplace or in your social circles. Avoiding these could mean the difference between a health career and a dead one.
Dishonesty When you lie, you lose professional credibility. It is dishonest when you exaggerate on your resume...
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Job Fairs: How to Best Prepare
Looking for a job these days is very competitive in BPO Philippines, especially if the company you want to work for is known for giving great salaries and compensation.
You’ll not be competing against 1 or 2 other people for the job but perhaps against dozens especially if you’re looking employment quickly by attending a job fair.
A job fair, also known as a career expo/exposition,...
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More Jobs in BPO Philippines this 2012
The world is spending money, again.
In BPO Philippines, the outsourcing sector remains to be the main employer in Cebu for the last couple of years. In 2012, the province’s employment outlook is expected to rebound as the manufacturing sector is gearing up.
Blue-collar jobs will be the employment opportunity for 2012 as Cebu prepares for the influx of manufacturing related investment that...
December 2011
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Advance your Career for the New Year
Get ahead in your career by making investments of effort, money and time that can return definite rewards, even in BPO Philippines’ competitive job market and economic challenges.
Truly the best way to advance in your career path is investing in further education and broaden your knowledge in your field or other skills.
Get certification.
If your job is technical in nature, like...
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10 Ways to Ace Job Interviews
You just received a phone call from a perfectly-accented voice informing you that you have a job interview set three days from now for a company you applied weeks past, a company you’re so eager to work for, which could build you a promising career in BPO Philippines and fast-track yourself to a bright, financially independent future.
Next comes that dreadful feeling in the pit of your...
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Make Unemployment Work for You
Looking for work? Sending out resumes and applications and attending job interviews yet still no follow up calls and meetings?
Don’t have work? Then don’t just sit at home and sulk. Get up and get busy. Get busy enough, and you might find yourself in a job sooner, than waiting.
Don’t worry about being unemployed. Make this the right time for you to develop yourself as a...
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The Exceptional Skills of Exceptional Employees
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle, Greek philosopher.
Exceptional employees, those who earn their fellow workers’ respect, and achieve recognition and appreciation from their supervisors and employers, have the common exceptional skills in communication, computer skills and people skills that make them stand out of the company pool,...
“A few years ago, nursing was the hot course. But the job market for that has...”
– George Son Keng Po, Head of Accenture Philippines delivery center network for technology. SOURCE
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BPO Philippines ups hiring in Western Visayas →
- Transcom Worldwide (Philippines), Inc. needs 2,000 employees for its call centers in Bacolod and Iloilo.
November 2011
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WatchCebu’s Call Center Industry, as covered by CNN.
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BPO Philippines: What makes good SEO?
This age is the Internet society, where individuals, groups and organizations have an online presence such as websites, web pages and accounts on social networks.
With potentially millions of websites and pages establish in the Internet, search engines like Yahoo!, Google and Bing are a necessity to find and identify these sites. To improve a website’s visibility or ‘presence’...
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BPO Philippines: Good Health promises Great...
Working as an agent in a call center in BPO Philippines can be stressful. There are health concerns with the change of lifestyle that comes with the job: working the night shift, sleeping through the day, receiving verbal abuse from some angry callers, demands to perform well and meet quota… Some people thrive on these crisis-like situations while others just burn out.
Here are some simple tips...
Be the Outstanding 1 out of 5!
Surveys report that 20 percent of job seekers who apply to a company in BPO Philippines get noticed in interviews and proceed through the screening process. Twenty percent!
To get an advantage over the rest, you have to know how to promote yourself as part of your strategy to secure a job or get hired on the spot.
Here are some tips to make sure you make a good impression on your potential...
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What it takes to be a professional call center...
To be a valuable employee of a call center, to be a competent agent, skills are important. To achieve good skills takes a lot of training as a decent voice, accent and speak isn’t just enough. It’s only one part of being a capable, full time call center agent in BPO Philippines.
Experience counts. Call centers usually look for applicants with previous work experience that had...
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Looking for a Job: Roel's Story.
Roel woke to the soft smell of hot oil frying sweet pork. Daylight was warm through his bedroom window. The young man sat up in bed, his eyes blank from a deep sleep that felt like decades.
Roel stared out until a thought registers in his head that today is the first day of his life as a graduate.
No more heading over to the campus. No more classes, textbooks, exams and projects. It’s...