Mar
9
South Korea-Cebu bonds strengthen with new air route
March 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Overheard, “Cebu’s become the summer capital of South Korea.”
The Korean airline company Air Busan promote their Busan, South Korea to Cebu, Philippines (vice-versa) flight route that’s open four times a week.
Mar
8
NZ and US demand skilled workers from the Philippines
March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment
According to economist Nicolas Kwan, the head for Standard Chartered Bank research (East), employment demand in the United States is still growing as the country still needs skilled workers from the Philippines.
Through resilience and strong “fighting spirit”. Filipinos have a good competitive advantage which companies are looking for specifically in the struggling economic environment in the United States.
New Zealand also announces the growing demand for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skilled workers. Highly skilled IT professionals from the Philippines is now one of the fastest growing demand in their country.
Mar
6
AT Kearney missed the mark in global rankings index
March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Global consulting firm A.T. Kearney placed the Philippines further down, rank #9, in terms of BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) attractiveness in its Global Locations Index 2011, citing that the fallout from the financial crisis shook up the rankings, as once-expensive countries moved up.
An industry insider in the outsourcing sector of the Philippines would like to disagree.
Mar
4
Cloud Computing is Outsourcing
March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment
“Cloud [computing] is just outsourcing. You can rely on knowledge of how you do outsourcing to an extent – there is enough there to help you, as long as you remember the seven deadly sins [of cloud computing].”
— Adrian Davis, principal research analyst, Information Security Forum.
Read more and know what these seven deadly sins are…
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