Senator urges call centers: Tap part-time workers

THE part-time labor market should be considered for call centers to meet the increasing demand for agents.
That’s what Sen. Mar Roxas, chairman of the Congressional oversight committee on the electronic commerce law, said in a press statement.
With the growing global demand for their services, Roxas projected that call centers will fully employ 96,000 Filipinos by [...]

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IBM, Cedf-it set to promote workforce development

ANALYZING what the industry needs, equipping the workforce with skills and enhancing their work environment are what IBM, together with the Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology (Cedf-it), will do in Cebu City.
“Workforce development solutions will assure that people, both new graduates and working professionals, have the skills that are needed and wanted in [...]

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50T infotech professionals in Cebu by 2008: Cedf-it

THE Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology (Cedf-it) aims to produce 50,000 skilled information technology (IT) professionals in Cebu by 2008.
“Currently, we have around 1,000 software programmers in Cebu. We want to increase that to 5,000 by 2008 and have 10,000 IT professionals in engineering services, and 35,000 in other IT-enabled services,” said Bonifacio [...]

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Senior citizens, Pinays get loans

TWENTY-FIVE applicants from the United Senior Citizens Association (USCA) and Kalipunan ng mga Liping Pilipina (Kalipi) will be given loans through Self-Employment Assistance–Kaunlaran (Sea-K), a livelihood program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
That’s what USCA president Bonnie Obaob said in an interview during the last day of the three-day Sea-K Training and [...]

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Phase 2 of Pristina North launched

ABOITIZLAND has launched the second phase of its high-end Pristina North development in Talamban, Cebu.
“We got a positive response in the first launching of Pristina North last year. Now we are happy to announce our new development in Phase 2,” said Andoni Aboitiz, president and chief operating officer of AboitizLand, during the launch Tuesday night [...]

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Retailers told: Compete on basis of service, not price

WITH the high competition in the market today, retailers should improve their services instead of lowering their product prices for them to compete and survive, a product specialist suggested.
There is also a need for these businesses to offer non-traditional services, said Nicandro Filart, product specialist of IBM Retail Store Solutions, during GlobeQuest’s Trade Innovations 2005 [...]

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Cebu should invite international budget airlines: CCCI

WHY not Cebu also?
That is Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) president Robert Go’s appeal to budget airlines from Asian countries like Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand that are coming to the Philippines but only at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Clark Field, Pampanga and at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia).
Tiger Air will [...]

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175 tourists land in Cebu on 1st of Taiwan charters

A FAR Eastern Air Transport (FAT) aircraft landed at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport yesterday, carrying 175 tourists from Kaohsiung City in Taiwan and marking the first of a series of such charter flights to Cebu.
“This flight is the outcome of a year-long planning and study on coming up with flights to Cebu,” said Simon Hou, [...]

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Cebu companies to get free online stores: Cvisnet

TWENTY Cebu-based companies from the garment, tourism and dried fruits sectors will be chosen this month to benefit from the SME.Net project, which enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to access the global market by having an online store.
The project is funded and implemented by Private Enterprise Accelerated
Resource Linkages Phase (Pearl) 2 and Central Visayas [...]

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Dutch experts to give technical aid for free

CEBU’S small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can get the free technical services of Dutch senior experts in the fields of industry, agriculture, trade, management and health care, among many others.
This has been made possible through the Netherlands Management Cooperation Program, now called PUM (Programma Uitzending Managers), an independent organization founded in 1987 that assigns experts [...]

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