Strong currency hurts Philippine call centres

[james_chaw]

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Furthermore, working for a MNC is not the same as working in SMEs. That's apples and oranges bro. lagyo ra kaau. The continuous brain-drain that our country is experiencing will one day boomerang on the country to a heightened effect

[james_chaw]

And most of all, it is precisely these SMEs who are MOST patient and UNDERSTANDING enough to train and educate these green horns into the real world. They waste thousands of Pesos so that these fresh graduates can have "work experience". That is the dilemma of SMEs: how to keep their present employees satisfied.

[rickflag]

bro di man to generalization sa akoa. i experienced it myself. used to apply for work in one of the bigger shipping companies here. though i am a very experienced IT professional, ila offer sa akoa after passing all their exams was just a measly 7.5K per month so even though I was jobless that time I turned it down and decided to venture in Manila.

[james_chaw]

bro di man to generalization sa akoa. i experienced it myself. used to apply for work in one of the bigger shipping companies here. though i am a very experienced IT professional, ila offer sa akoa after passing all their exams was just a measly 7.5K per month so even though I was jobless that time I turned it down and decided to venture in Manila.

Be that as it may, you made it sound like a generalization. Secondly, did you "experience" it with other family owned businesses?

[rickflag]

I once worked in another family owned business company before that bro. My salary back then was just 6K though I already gained 5 years experience from other company as a developer. That's why after my second experience I swear to myself never to work with those type of companies again. Compare that with my previous MNC company, they are offering a fresh and inexperienced graduate a starting salary of 16K.

[james_chaw]

You are proving my point bro. Your "experience" has led you to that conclusion albeit "generalization" and that people are just looking at the bottomline. A lot of people seem to think that they are entitled to high salaries without an iota of experience. The idea in the army of earning one's stripes is most applicable in the real world.

[rickflag]

i got your point bro but based from what i've experienced most of those fresh grads benefited learning more on MNCs because they are using the latest technology and they do provide trainings, allow me to name the company, it's Accenture bro. they provide tranings for SAP, Peoplesoft, .NET and Java while most local companies here are still stucked to old technologies like VB6 or Powerbuilder so in short what they learned from those companies are good as obsolete.

siguro bro, in other fields tinuod na imo gisulti about brain drain but not for IT because we always have to upgrade our skills to be relevant.

[james_chaw]

siguro bro, in other fields tinuod na imo gisulti about brain drain but not for IT because we always have to upgrade our skills to be relevant.

Bro, the concept of "brain-drain" is that a lot of our talented, potential employees are leaving the country, particularly nurses, doctors who become nurses, IT professionals, engineers, architects, and etc.

Your last statement is non sequitor.

[silent-kill]

be careful mo.. the peso is being played by currency speculators... pump and dump.

[rickflag]

i'm aware of that bro, i just mentioned brain drain because of what you've mentioned earlier. in a way there is still some sort of a "brain drain" for local companies here because if they're paying low they can't expect highly talented workers to work for them. the one company that i've tried applying bro their outgoing IT could not even make a daily time recorder application that the company badly needed for their payroll that's why they wanted him replaced.