A huge business process outsourcing firm specializing in accounting and financial services will put up a site in Bacolod City and is expected to hire about 3,000 workers, Bacolod-Negros Occidental Federation of Information and Communication Technology executive director, Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, said yesterday.

The representatives of the firm, who was not named, is set to arrive in Bacolod next week to see possible site locations and it may include the Negros First CyberCentre, Batapa-Sigue said.

She said, however, that the problem is whether there are enough accounting graduates from Bacolod and Negros Occidental to fill the vacant positions.

There are also three other small-scale BPO companies also interested to open their sites in Bacolod, Batapa-Sigue said.

As of this year, there are already about 18,000 individuals employed in BPOs as voice and non-voice workers, BNEFIT records showed.

Batapa-Sigue said hundreds of job-seekers apply in different BPOs in Bacolod City everyday and only 10 to 12 percent of them get hired after being evaluated in three competencies, which are computer, language and business process skills.

Romelia Nuezca, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority training specialist, said they had a very good outputs in finishing courses for call center agents last year with 70 percent of those who were trained hired.

Bacolod City was recently elevated to center of excellence for Information Technology Business Process Management by the Department of Science and Technology Information and Communications Technology office after the city landed in the top ten of next wave cities for IT-BPM for the last three years.*APN

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