Leading call center opens ICT job fair

KEEPING a low key approach following an International Labor Organization citation for job generation by Southeast Asia and the Pacific sub-regional office at a workshop in Manila , Bohol again sets an information communication technology (ICT) job fair this Thursday and Friday, September 14-15, at the Governor's Mansion Grounds. Hiring is a Tampa Florida based company called Sykes, a global leader in expert outsourcing and consulting solutions to Fortune 500 companies specifically into technology, finance, retail and consumer engineering outsourcing.

The Bohol job opening is also a feeler sort of activity to standardize the ICT industry here as well as spur local training to cope with the international standards so that workers and skills can be matched with the global demands. The fair also opens up to ICT enabled Boholanos the chances to explore other communication and information related employment chances now made open in the global job demand fields.

Founded in 1977, the company has grown form its roots in North Carolina to ins main base in Tampa and into its satellite offices in five continents. Sykes has also been in the country since 1997 and has been credited for some 7000 jobs in five call centers across the country. Sykes, reportedly one of the best paying business process outsourcing companies in the country is looking for dynamic applicants willing to be trained, with a good working attitude, service oriented and has a good command of the English language. American accent is an advantage, but it is not required, organizers said.

Sykes also promises attractive salary packages including an equally handsome benefit packages including meal allowances, overtime allowances, health bonus, medical insurance assistance, incomparable vacation and sick leave benefits, study assistance, hazard pay and still a good package of allowances. Allowances also include account driven benefits inclusive of language, certification, technical, tenure, performance and incentive allowances with still a good drop-down menu for other benefits for Boholanos. The company also boasts of two Boholano top executives. The Provincial Government of Bohol, Bohol Employment and Placement Office, Bohol Investment Promotion Center , Department of Trade and Industry Bohol Provincial Office sponsor the activity. This development came amidst the buoyant outlook the country shares in affirmation and support for the country's general resolve to achieve sustained economic growth, to be competitive on the next decades.

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