Monday, April 24, 2006
Davao proposes 400 slots for BPO trainees
THE Davao Region is proposing 400 slots for trainees on Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) in the recently launched nationwide program of the government with a funding cost of P500 million.
Gaspar Gayola, regional director of the Technical Educational Schools Development Authority (Tesda) 11, said the BPO will have four courses: call center agent, medical/legal transcription, software development, and animation.
He said the BPO will be extended to hotspot regions and these are the areas where there are already call center companies namely in Regions 3, 6, 7, 11, CAR and NCR.
For the Davao area alone, he said, there is standing demand of 1,000 call center agents although one company based here needs 400 agents within the next 90 days for Davao based employment.
He also said that the need under animation is about 3,000 while another 80 are needed under software development.
Gayola said they will be talking with four training schools, the JIB e-Academy, G-Com, and two other private schools.
He said this partnership has to be discussed clearly with the schools, because their purpose is to train the person not just to gain knowledge and get a job.
He also said that they want to get the assurance of the training schools that those they trained will have an absorption rate of 80 percent.
"If the 80 percent employability of those being trained could be guaranteed we could look for other schools in other provinces," he said.
Citing the terms set by Tesda in Baguio City, he said the training schools "don't get paid until about 80 percent of those they trained are employed."
He said they could also devise their own scheme to ensure that they enjoy the same rate of work absorption.
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