Sunday, April 20, 2014

Philippines As The Highly Preferred Business Process Outsourcing Partner

The process of contracting the services of a third party to do a specific business task on your company's behalf is known as business process outsourcing or BPO. Such trend has grown to be a tremendous business in the Philippines at the onset of 2000.  In 2008, the call center industry alone supported a $12-billion BPO industry.

           

Another proof of the growing call center industry in the country is that it employs thousands of new graduates each year. It is said that call centers started out as providers in the email response and managing sector. With an estimated 80 percent share of the total business process outsourcing BPO industry, call centers provide services mostly for US clients.

Why is the Philippines highly preferred by western clients to be their outsourcing partner? The following are just of the multiple reasons:

1. lower operational and labor costs as compared to Europe and the US
2. high proficiency in American English
3. vast pool of qualified talents
4. highly skilled workforce

It should be remembered that the Philippines was once colonized by America. English was then made as the official language of instruction in all academic institutions throughout the country, and as such made conversations in that language easier for the average Filipino. So it’s not really a wonder that Filipino workers became a high demand for various posts overseas.

These workers are known worldwide for their flexibility and adaptability to work, aside from showing passion and dedication wherever they are located and whatever profession they are in. You can never doubt the quality of work that Filipino workers produce.

Apart from the superior quality of workers, there is more fun when outsourcing in the Philippines. The government is doing its best to maintain peace and order, a climate suitable for any business venture. Food and lodging is considerably affordable and plentiful. Likewise, transportation is never a problem.

Apart from call center, the BPO industry has branched out to other vital services that include legal and medical transcription, finance, logistics and accounting, software development and animation, and other IT-related functions.

If you're planning to do business in this part of the globe, rest assured of success but first you have to understand the advantages and disadvantages of business process outsourcing. It would pay to know all aspects of the business before you even decide to outsource.

My Neighborhood Wants to Be a Web Developer

An ordinary day strikes again. I woke up with a smile, prepare my things and proceed to my bookstore in town. But as I drove along the road, I notice a neighbor swiftly striding erratically in a direction towards town. It seems that he's in haste for something. I thought that it would be better to hitch him a ride.

           

As he stepped in my car, he smiled at me and softly greeted a pleasant morning. I bounced back the greetings and eventually asked him what's with the hurry. He slightly grinned and burst out a whispering voice, “I have been invited to a seminar of our nation's topweb developers”.

Torrential questions streamed all throughout my head, I awkwardly replied, “What was that?”
My fellow neighbor paused for a while, emit a skeptical look to me. Perhaps, he was thinking if I have an idea about what it was all about. Then after his brief observation, his mouth started explaining about the Internet world. He quite elaborated some of the significant facts inside the walls of Internet marketing.

At the middle of our conversation, his crystal clear tears reluctantly flowed from his innocent eyes. I even don't know the reason for it. That moment, I just let him continue the discussion.

As he continued, he talked about certain professions that emerge due to Internet marketing. Those are search engine optimization specialist, virtual assistant, and web developer. Perhaps, my daily routine in taking care of my bookstore somehow pulls me away from the latest trend of technology.

Anyway, I just absorbed everything he said. I was actually in the state of gathering lots of information from him. It was an amazing incident for me.

As we arrived in town, he smiled at me. I stopped the car to the place where their seminar was supposed to be held. Then he opened the car, get out of it and stood beside me (outside the car).

As he slowly fades away from my sight, I noticed that he was crying. So I rushed to him and asked the reason of his tears. He then told me, “I wanted to become a web developer but my girlfriend hates being one. He wanted me to become a searchengine optimization specialist!” Although he told me his reason, still, I had no idea what those professions are. I realized that my mind is really outdated with today’s technology.