Thursday, December 31, 2009

Call Center Lifestyle in the Philippines

Yuppie Filipinos the chance to be easily deployed, after their bachelor's or graduate degree due to the emergence of contact centers everywhere received in the Philippines. These workers have begun, the 24-hour gleaming skyscrapers, a colorful background to metro Manila's financial district is to fill at night.

This only shows that the people were employed in this job for a few years, are on their ticking biological sleeping habit. They slept the whole day onlytheir energies to awaken again and again early in the morning to be prepared for a night-long work. Dressed in casual attire with matching fashionable coats are the most common props, if you are a customer service representative. During the break, some are even used to occupy the various outdoor dining area in Manila. In Ortigas, for example, call center agents enjoy their 30-minutes to 1 hour for lunch at McDonald's, Starbucks, among others. For those who have extra pennies, they enjoy the hot aromaof Brazilian coffee in various blend. Others may sit on the corner and lit her cigarette in a way to release their stress from work. It enjoys, is not it?

At 8 clock. About 100 people who sit most of the 25 are younger, in a space of enclosed cubicles equipped with telephones and computers. You will work, up to 4 clock. or depend on the timetable for their classes. When her shift begins, it is usually in the morning in the U.S.. The Contact Center will be according to U.S. standard zones such as Pacific, Eastern Europe,Mountain and Central America.

Meanwhile 20-year-old Luisa Geneta known that call centers is her first job when she finished her bachelor's degree on 4 May 2007. By 12 clock., Geneta she left her house in Tondo, a suburb village in Manila, as her shift starts at 2 clock in the morning. The banking and financial law graduate of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) is one of the top-caliber representatives for Unique Interaction, an American call center based in Ortigas.

"Working in a CallCenter in the Philippines is really a great challenge for me especially that I am new to this business. I spent most of my time and energy for this job, "she said, which handles a detailed invoice.

It is a very risky to leave my house at midnight for a young lady like me. However, I believe that this rewarding career, we have today, and this is a great help in creating another way of living for us Filipinos, especially for fresh graduates like me, theyasserted.

On the other hand, Margaret Estanislao, 19, a group of the same company, reveals that the reduction of funds into action their challenge within the meaning of their work.

Estanislao, who started as an agent, that they all tried to sort out the problem of the customer. "We must preserve our empathy, if the customer is angry. They are angry, not because the representative aghast, but the products themselves."

Both Geneta and Estanislao agreed thatThis offer has given them the opportunity to develop their skills and boost their confidence when it comes to interacting with their customers in a phone call.

"Not the financial support that exists for me and my family name. I think this industry will continue to prosper in the years that followed, and continues to be a leading provider of career opportunities for Filipinos," Geneta added.

It can not be denied that outsourcing business isone of the related industry in the Philippines and other Asian countries. It seems that contact center managers prefer that produces this country, because you speak the number of students per year, the English in American way. As the third largest English speaking country in Asia is no doubt that Business Process Outsourcing is in demand today.

BPO company offers a state-of-the-art equipment in its outsourcing business in the United States, Britain and Australia.These companies trained their employees to speak like American way. Unique in interaction, they provide basic call center training prior to the call center trainees have the opportunity to call. The trainees had to learn account information first. Once they know the account, then they are ready to use on the ground and get as many calls as they want. The companies teach their employees how they handle their customers well. It's so hard to lose a customer, we know that theyis the alpha and omega, that the full power to make the support for enterprises in operation at the enterprise and stay there for long.

In fact, call centers are part of the Philippine economy. Nearly half the 86.2 million people in the Philippines are under 20 years old. So do not be surprised if you are able to meet supervisors, including team leaders, managers 25th This is because the call center has the fastest way to promote professional development. If the agentbetter developed, and it had good reviews CSAT then no doubt that move within six months or less, as this particular employee is entitled to another level in his career. The Philippines is also one of the possible factors for the swap. It was also recognized by XMG Inc., Manila-based research and consulting firm forecast that the nation will surpass India by 2008 as the home of the largest call center companies in the world.

The Philippines offers attractive environment for theBPO companies, which is one of the main requirements of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (Peza) in applying for this business. Already, large contact center company also expanded its centers not only in Manila but to promote the provincial level. It means that the revenue run not only within the National Capital Region (NCR), but it is also the provincial areas after passing the standard of Peza. Largest call centers are also found in Pampanga,Laguna and Baguio in Luzon, Bacolod, Cebu, Dumaguete and Iloilo in the Visayas and Cagayan de Oro and Davao in Mindanao.

The Philippine government is very supportive about this. Under the government of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, she said that BPO companies generate billions of pesos in the country with a goal by 2010. When it begins in the year 2000, is now off-shore call center industry employs 60,000 staff estimates.

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