Saturday, October 06, 2007 Firm stops sending nurses
DESPITE strong demand for Filipino nurses overseas, a human resource deployment agency has temporarily stopped sending nurses abroad to prevent the shortage of healthcare professionals in the country from worsening.
Manpower Philippines sales and marketing manager Randy Rively said if more nurses leave the country, Philippine hospitals will run out of nurses in 10 years.
There are about eight million Filipinos working overseas and many of them belong to the healthcare profession.
Rively, in an interview during the 44th People Management Association of the Philippines conference, said Filipinos are globally competitive because they are educated and hardworking.
He said Manpower’s clients prefer to hire Filipinos because they are well trained and their skills are “amazing,” he said.
He said the competence of Filipino professionals is the result of good training and education provided by vocational, public or private schools in the country.
He said Manpower is doing well because of the high demand for Filipino professionals overseas, particularly welders and pipe-fitters.
He also revealed that Manpower is considering opening an office in Cebu. He said Cebu is a potentially good market because of the presence of several call centers and a huge pool of human resource talents.
He said the company will consider the expansion in the last quarter of next year or the first quarter of 2009.
The $18-billion company offers employers a range of services for the entire employment and business cycle including permanent, temporary and contract recruitment, employee assessment and selection, training, outplacement, outsourcing and consulting.
Manpower has a worldwide network of 4,400 offices in 73 countries and territories. It has 400,000 clients every year, the company said in a statement.
Manpower has already sent 5,000 Filipinos in 28 countries without charging the candidates placement fees since revenues are generated directly by its international client companies. (TEP)
