Feb

18

Previously, Outsourcing Opinions did a focus feature on an emerging outsourcing destination in Asia, spotlight on Malaysia. Now read up on the latest from Malaysia’s outsourcing industry.

According to Outsourcing Malaysia, the country’s national outsourcing association, its outsourcing and shared services (SSO) industry to undergo a consolidation in the face of stiff competition in the global market.

Presently,  there are too many small and midsize local SSO companies among the association’s more than a 100 members who are unable to bid for global services contracts.

Outsourcing Malaysia will start a three-year plan to create possibly three SSO consortiums to compete globally by 2012. Read more on this news here

Feb

9

Businessman and commentator/columnist Valeriano “Bobit” Avila shares his views on the fact that though the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector is booming, there is a shortage of people filling in thousands of BPO jobs simply because they lack sufficient English skills.

Mr. Avila calls for a re-evaluation of the Philippines’ obsolete language policies to address this current and pressing need.

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Feb

6

Warren Buffet was quoted that it takes 20 years to build up a reputation and just five minutes to ruin it. However if one considers the Internet and social media, one’s name, image and reputation is indeed a fragile thing that will not even last 10 seconds.

If you maintain a professional or personal persona online, either via a blog or a social media account, you and your name becomes transparent and vulnerable to malicious attacks through comments, compromising photos or videos and even identity theft.

One must be aware on how to carefully manage and protect one’s name and image online.

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Feb

5

New jobs or professions in Information Technology are cropping as there is growing demand for individuals with experience and expertise in a variety of new technologies emerge and evolve– such as software-as-a-service, virtualization, network security and social media.

And one of these new IT job specializations is the Sourcing Specialist.

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