Looking For a Job? BPO Job Opportunity

Seeing that call centers and BPO places are retrenching, I happen to know a company that is expanding. Here's the deal, you can email me your resumes and I'll forward them to that company. No joke, I'll let you know if I've forwarded your resume via email as well. Send your resumes to this address: yhadz.alterego@gmail.com or leave a comment below with your email address

Here's what the company needs:

• College graduate/ college degree
  
• Above average communication skills
  
• Preferably with customer service experience
• Willing to work nights

For the protection of the company I cannot disclose their name here. I'm not in a position to divulge that information publicly just like that.

The place isn't perfect but they pay rather well. Minimum is 20,000 per month so that's pretty good. I think it's a good place to start for new graduates or at the very least, a job opportunity for those that just lost their tenure.

Job Opportunities & Scholarships In Bahrain

While there are a number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are displaced from their jobs due to the global economic meltdown, job opportunities await more Filipinos abroad.

His Highness Bahrain Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa Salman Al Khalifa in an interview disclosed that Bahrain wanted more Filipinos to work in their country.

He said that Filipinos are hardworking and have the skills and professionalism in doing their jobs.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was in Bahrain to meet in the Filipino community as well as to find more job opportunities for Filipinos.

In her speech during the reception for the Filipino community in Bahrain, President Arroyo said that the Prime Minister had expressed to her his appreciation for the skills and professionalism of Filipino workers.

The President also revealed that the Prime Minister told her that Bahrain needs more salesladies for the country's shopping malls and urged her to send more Filipina workers for that particular position.

The latest tally showed that there are 45,000 Filipino workers and the number is still growing, with professional and skilled Filipino workers in high demand.

Meanwhile, some 1,000 dependents in the Philippines of Filipino workers in Bahrain will benefit from the government's scholarship program.

The scholarship program will be implemented starting this coming 2009-2010 school year.

The 1,000 scholarship vouchers worth P5 million under the GMA-CARES program of AMA International University in Bahrain was presented to President Arroyo by Special Envoy to the Gulf Cooperation Council Ambassador Amable Aguiluz.

Among the courses covered by the scholarship program are computer operation, information technology enabled program, call center and medical transcription.

Via Philippine Information Agency

Market Contradictions of Job Opportunity in the Philippines

Don't believe everything you hear on the news. Always take everything with a grain of salt. Now the world would have you believe that there is a crisis. You look around and see that this is true. Sad but true.

Nevertheless news pop out that this crisis is actually beneficial for the Philippines because a lot of back-offices and other BPO related industries that are folding in the United States actually find it cheaper to set up here in the Philippines, almost 90% less is what I recall. Telecoms are moving their operations from abroad to the Philippines, thereby creating jobs for Filipinos. Well and good.



But we also have to consider the flip-side here, which says that almost 800,000 people are also expected to lose their jobs as lay-offs such as that as big as Intel just last month and other companies start firming up their operations and taking out people due to "redundancy."

In the end all that growth and all the contraction will lead us back to square one where we may see no growth in the employment market at all. The best way to go about this now is to stay where you are. As much as possible, try to keep your current job. If the company lets you go, it will actually be good for you because you will get the appropriate severance pay. Or at least you should - depending on your contract.

Now is not the time to jump ship. It's difficult enough as it is. Of course opportunities I believe are still everywhere particularly if you don't choose what job you want to do. But if you are picky, then swallow your pride and ride through this wave, it'll be a couple more months (if we're lucky) to a few years (that's going to have to be the worst case scenario)

Don't Get Too Attached To Your Work

Nothing like some jarring photos to shake you off the holiday spirits. These are actually creepy

To bring attention to European Anti-trafficking Day back in October, McCann-Erikson Belgium created a campaign that illustrates just how connected those in the human trafficking trade are to their jobs.

Each of the three ads shows a person "connected" to their profession. Too much so I would say. Looking at these remind me never to get too attached to my job.

Survey Says Work Can Make You Sick

Wow people must really have sordid preconceptions about work and what it's like to work if research shows that work is deemed hazardous to health.

Global recruitment firm Kelly Services conducted an international survey where nearly a fifth of employees say their work makes them ill or unhealthy. The sample consist of 115,000 respondents in 33 countries in Europe, Asia and the Pacific and North America this year.

Results showed that on average,

• 19 percent of respondents globally said their job was adversely affecting their health
• an additional 13 percent saying their work was so stressful it was making it hard for them to sleep at night
• In Japan 60 percent of respondents said they had suffered from work-related health problems
• Canada had the second-highest percentage of employees who said their health was affected, while employees in New Zealand, India and Australia were among those least affected
• A third of employees said they had taken three or more days of sick leave in the past year, but 35 percent said they had been made to feel guilty about the time off
• By contrast, 15 percent admitted to taking sick leave when they were not genuinely sick
• While the majority of workers polled said their health was their employer's responsibility, not everyone is asking for access to a gym, flexible hours or nutrition classes.

"In economies everywhere, people are spending more time at work, sometimes at the expense of personal health and wellbeing," said the Kelly Global Workforce Survey.

"A significant number of people also believe that the state of their health is at risk because of workplace conditions. Not only do employees see their health being affected, but they expect employers to actively address the issue," it said.

You know what I notice about most people in the office is that they take work way to personally. Work is a job. I love my work (sometimes). We take pride in what we do and that's good - I think that's what's called work integrity. It allows us give the best of what we have to our job.

But I don't think it's right to stay in the office for twelve hours a day and working your ass off, taking every bit of failure personally. Allowing work-related stress to permeate the rest of your life will drive you insane. That will indeed make anybody sick, not to mention burnt out.


This is why work has been restricted to only eight hours a day, because the powers that be know that there has to be life beyond work. I've learned there's such a thing as separating yourself from your job. Letting it be JUST a job. That doesn't mean we don't work hard, it just means shit happens and we take it but then we let it pass. So my advice to people who are working sick... get a life! Please!