Thursday, August 28, 2008 BPO human resource, recruitment forum set By Joy Romares-Sevilla
TWENTY-seven schools and training institutions and 18 ICT companies in Davao City have already signified to join the BPO Human Resource and Recruitment Forum on Friday at the Royal Mandaya Hotel.
Nanette del Monte, liaison officer of the BPO Association of Davao Inc., said this during Wednesday's edition of the Club 888 press forum at the Marco Polo Davao.
The forum is an off-shot of the successful BPO Property Forum held on February 28, 2008, which was also organized by the ICT Davao Inc.
The forum aims to solidify Davao as the premier source of quality BPO human resource and set the future for the sustainable development of the labor industry.
Del Monte said the BPO Association of Davao Inc., which was just recently formed, is now formulating ideas on how to increase the hiring ability of the industry.
"The hiring rate in Davao City is 10 percent, pretty better than Manila's five percent. The group is working on that to further increase the hiring ability. How do we do it, that matter is still being discussed," del Monte said.
If she is to rate the competitiveness of graduates in Southern Mindanao in a scale of 10, del Monte claimed graduates' skills competitiveness could be placed to eight.
"If we conduct jobs fair here, at least 40 percent of the participating companies are from Metro Manila. This only means that they also prefer to employ people from Davao," she said.
Davao City was tagged as one of the five next BPO destinations in the country today.
"The city was identified as one of the top five next BPO destinations in the country. It was consistently placed to be the number one and number two in three different surveys conducted recently," del Monte said.
She added that BPO locators outside Mindanao are already realizing the potential of Davao City. The standpoint of several locators now is that, they will be where the skills and workers are located, said Del Monte.
According to her, the BPO Human Resource and Recruitment Forum is another opportunity for the academe and the industry to identify the needs of the industry that are to be developed.
"One of the highlights of the forum is, teachers and professors of the schools are allowed to listen during the interview of their students. With this, they will know on where they can further improve and what are needed for the development of their students," del Monte concluded.
