Lauding the benefits of offshore outsourcing to a developing nation’s employment dilemma…

There are so many profound reasons why I laud offshore outsourcing so much. Increasing employment opportunities is already obvious, and as well, its contribution to a developing nations’ economic growth. For this reason, I guess there’s no use to dwell on those ideas. What I would like to expound is how outsourcing gives enviable impacts to our lives, factors which doesn’t solely rest on employment (but maybe connected with employment) or has nothing to do with a nation’s or a business’ revenue. I would like to extend how offshore outsourcing provides viable option for workers who supposedly abroad, yet, remains on the borders within the country and still avails a decent living.

There are so many graduates these days who choose their degree courses for reasons that these will serve as their tickets to have employment overseas and acquire a satisfying compensation. But as the demand for offshore outsourcing is increasingly growing, they tend to remain because better employment opportunities are sprouting radically in their country. I’m not saying that the compensation is the same as working abroad, but, the compensation is quite as satisfactory considering that one won’t have to leave the country and suffer homesickness or all other psycho-emotional distress. They don’t have to cross borders of other nations, yet, they can still uplift their living condition in an outright manner.

A further benefit is that the dignity of the country and workforce is also uplifted. Before, developing nations (Philippines for instance) has been known globally because it produces most of the domestic helpers or seafarers for the global community. However, with the varied opportunities outsourcing provides, many skilled individuals can be recognized in various fields that the country has not been popularly known. From IT solutions, medical assistance, to legal services, the outsourcing industry can offer employment for professionals with different degrees and expertise. To be recognized in the international community with those expertises is such a very commendable and celebrated feeling. It uplifts the dignity of the country and as well it increases the value of the workforce. Aren’t all these things wonderful? And take note, these are just extensions. Direct positive impacts for the foreign companies’ expenses and the outsourced nation’s economy itself struck more feeling of awe and bewilderment. And we all owe these to the advances in information technology and increasing globalization.

There are still so many reasons to point out. But I just let you figure out the other factors yourself. Just keep me posted if you can think of a fresh perspective of looking at the offshore outsourcing industry and might as well, exchange ideas with me. Happy browsing 🙂

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Content amidst Changes

There is nothing else constant in this world but change. Same is true to the world of search engine optimization. This field in IT industry is dynamic as the tidal waves that crash to the shore every moment. The competition for visibility in search engine results is hot as flowing lava due to those dynamic changes. Why am I saying this? It is because I just feel the need to point out that search engine algorithms change from time to time.

Algorithms are complex mathematical formulas that search engines use in calculating what words a particular web page should be rank for and where it should appear in the rankings. If unscrupulous webmasters know the algorithms a particular search engine currently uses, then, it will be easier for their sites to rank high in the results when in the first place they are not worthy of that privilege. Their site might be offering tour packages but it might rank high on results searched by a person looking for the latest sporting item. Hence, algorithms hold a fundamental role in the world of search engine optimization. It determines which keywords are the most timely and productive to use.

From time to time, whenever results turn irrelevant to a search, algorithms are changed in order to provide what net surfers really wants to find. No one dares to have far-off search engine results, right? For this reason, major search engines like Google continually reconfigure their algorithms to better serve the need of every net shoppers and surfers in this world. It is only a matter of being content-wise and relevant on the part of the competing websites to keep pace with these changes. Whatever the next algorithms are is beyond the webmasters and link builders to know. They just have to be creative and imaginative in anticipating those. And, they should never forget the content of their sites because that’s the bottom line of everything amidst the changes happening around.

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“An Added Ingredient”

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is a total solution to a company’s need to be competitive in the virtual world. Its efforts do not end after developing a company’s web site or after increasing the traffic of that site, it also provides web support agents to further the conversion of net surfers from site visitors into actual buyers. How is this so?

Web support agents offer assistance to visitors by guiding them through live chats or e-mails. They are responsible for qualifying web visitors and pushing marketing content to them. They develop good business relationships with customers thus maintaining customer loyalty. They can also update the content of the site whenever necessary. Hence, they act as the company’s on-line employees. In turn, web support agents are viewed as the personal human touch in web sites!

There are still so many reasons to point out as to why companies should avail the service of web support agents. The most important of these reasons is the fact that they can effectively convert site visitors into potential buyers in a way that only the accommodating and convincing powers of humans can do. Increased traffic and well-designed graphics may not be enough to take a company’s sale to its optimum . Therefore, the service of web support agents is an added ingredient in attaining such success.

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Philippines’ Edge as an Outsourcing Destination

What makes the Philippines a viable option for offshore outsourcing? Perhaps, this can be best answered by the increasing numbers of foreign companies who chooses to contract with Philippine IT solution providers to develop their sites, create graphic designs, review bulks of legal documents, and any other thinkable service which can be left handled to the Filipino work force. But to make things a bit more firm and certain, outsourcing in the Philippines booms in a steadfast manner because of crucial factors that stems from the uniqueness and brilliance of Filipinos. Here are some defining factors which able the country to continually gain ground, and perhaps serve as tickets for it to outbid its competitors in outsourcing.

Language Advantage. U.S has been one of the leading countries whose companies prefer to outsource their operations. Luckily for Filipinos, Philippines had more shared culture with the U.S. among Asian countries. This is not just in terms of legal system or the admiration of western mentality, but primarily because of a more fundamental and basic connection, that is, when it comes to language. When compared with other outsourcing destinations in Asia, Philippines has a pool of workers who are more proficient in the command of the English language. Not just that, when interpreting legal documents from the U.S., Filipinos are better skilled in doing this because the educational and the legal system are heavily anchored in the said language. Hence, there is this instant understanding of the solution provider towards the culture of the foreign client. So, it can make the transaction progresses in a fluent manner, and the outputs be accomplished in a way that is sensitive to the character of the one who is being served. The Philippines is the third largest English-speaking country in the world, so it’s not surprising to use this as an advantage over other competing countries in the dynamic world of outsourcing.

Trained and Skilled labor force. Government has been continually supporting the outsourcing sector by keeping a steady supply of talented workers through education and training. Service businesses which includes outsourcing is easier to set up and support than capital-intensive manufacturing businesses, and it can even generate more white collar jobs than the latter. Hence, fresh graduate students with degree holders can be best utilized under the IT and outsourcing industry. The cheaper labor wage compared to the increasing salaries of those who came from other outsourcing countries like India, even further the advantage of contracting with Filipino providers.

These factors are just few of the many reasons why outsourcing continually flourishes in the Philippines. Though there still a lot to mention, still, those are enough to provide hints as to why it will always be an advantage to work with Filipino service providers. Filipinos had been globally known in quite innumerable fields like sports, arts, entrepreneurship, engineering, designing, among others. And, it seems like adding outsourcing in the list would be a greater pride not just to the country itself but primarily to the work force who persistently sustains it.

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