The Venue

After choosing from a number of locations, our first My Call to Share ( in collaboration with Pinoy BPO Journal Forums) Free Call Center Seminar for Job Seekers was finally decided to be held in Ortigas Center. I was cheerfully assisted by Celia Cruz, Librarian and Information Specialist of Ortigas Foundation Library, to reserve a seminar room for our project. I was convinced that the place was perfect for our lecture and is a very relaxed and cool place right in the heart of Ortigas.

I'm so excited as the trainees are! Please send your resumes now to freetraining@pinoybpojournal.net to register. We are not a recruitment agency and we are not affiliated with any BPO company nor represent them in any way.

See you!

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My Call to Share

My Call to Share 5-point Declaration:

1. We are a volunteer organization composed of Pinoy BPO Workers and have the will of self-determination. Never to receive monetary gains or favor from any political, religious or corporate entities and never be used for any political, corporate nor religious objectives.

2. We recognize that change is achievable if we act together and volunteering individual effort without asking for any money or favor in return.

3. We take pride to be a Filipino, aiming to culturally transform and to eliminate negative social practices that has been holding us back as a people to succeed.

4. We believe there is unity in diversity, never to discriminate people because of their sex, race or disability.

5. We will continuously share beneficial knowledge and give back to the community, and this is our main purpose and goal.

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I'm delighted to present the first project of My Call to Share and Pinoy BPO Journal Forums for 2010!

Free Call Center Seminar for Job Seekers

When: February 6, 2010 (Saturday)
Time: 9:00am - 2:00pm
Venue: Ortigas Foundation, 2/F Ortigas Building, Meralco Ave. Pasig City

We are all set to prove that WE WALK OUR TALK. Genuine service is that is POLITICS-FREE.

***Trainees will get FREE training manual, FREE English tutorial audio CD, FREE snacks.***

Interested participants may email their resume to freetraining@pinoybpojournal.net for evaluation.

Thank you so much for your support!

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Welcoming the 2010 Pinoy BPO Industry

It's been a good year for me, having tried new roles in the BPO industry was really exciting. New horizons opened up and new opportunities for me and made me realize that there's more that I can do, besides the usual taking in calls all night.

January 2010, I will be launching my volunteer group, My Call to Share. It is a humble idea that we, Pinoy BPO workers, volunteer ourselves for a better community. To give back our blessings is a way to succeed in our endeavors in life. I don't believe that our Pinoy BPO workers are too indulged in material gains brought about by our wages and commissions, but a driving force for change.

What a challenging 2010 ahead for me, what a promising year ahead for all of us Pinoy BPO workers!

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BPO Party List?

As the elections draw nearer by the month, news about politicians left and right flood the media and political ads are annoying, playing by the minute. The Pinoy BPO sector now also wants representation to the Congress via Party-List, or is it really just a few people having grand ambitions of being politicians and just pretending to be the voice of the Pinoy BPO workers?

In my opinion, you don't need to be a politician to serve the people. Now is it really the intention to serve that drives these people or to just have a share of tax payer money for themselves? Hunger for personal fame and ego being disguised? These are just plain and simple crap.

Nothing wrong to have representation in congress, but they got to have these strict qualities for them to qualify, the way I see it, to be a genuine Party-List for the BPO workers:

1.) Leaders must have substantial work experience as a BPO or call center agent. We all know that the bulk of the Pinoy BPO workers are the rank and file employees or the agents, so how could a leader of these groups know what's going on if he or she only been an agent for a year or two? I want to see least 10 years or more agent experience.

2.) Leaders must have a track record that promotes volunteerism and has been doing substantial volunteer jobs without monetary compensation. This is a test whether they mean true service to the people or just want to make money once elected. This is leadership by example.

3.) The group must have nationwide support by having the members mobilized doing volunteer work and helping the community already, not just by claiming to have thousands of members and brag it in a website. Anybody can create a website and claim these and that. I want hard proof that they are already doing something good for the country for years prior applying to be a Party-List.

Now if these criteria are met, personally I will apply to join your group and help with my own capacity. This is a challenge to those groups that are claiming to be the voice of the Pinoy BPO workers. Present us proof and not all nonsense talk.

To discuss this topic, please join our forums here.

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JPMorgan Cebu provides jobs

Providing premium BPO jobs in Makati and Taguig with approximately 2,300 seats, JPMorgan Chase & Co. is now hiring jobs in Cebu City. Located in eBloc Tower at Asiatown I.T. Park, JP Morgan Cebu will cater to U.S. and Canadian customers.

Cebu City is a higly urbanized city in Central Visayas and what I like best about the city is that you'll be able to both enjoy urban living, and for just a few hours by land, superb vacation spots.

Current jobs for Senior Trainer for Collections, Trainer, Operations Manager, Team Manager, Training Manager are now up for grabs and very soon for Customer Service Officers.

Now this is really an enticing offer to our Pinoy BPO workers in Manila to venture in the south, calling all my bisaya friends to check it out and this might be the dream BPO job that you are waiting for.

To discuss this topic, join our Forums here.

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ACS to be taken over by Xerox Corp.

That's right, Xerox Corporation is on a diversification move to buy Affiliated Computer Services worth $6.4 billion, which as analyts say, will enable ACS to compete against Hewlett-Packard which bought ACS rival Electronic Data Systems a year ago.

Xerox Corporation, the world's leading document management technology and services enterprise is a $17.6 billion company and is already the world's biggest supplier of digital printer and document management services.

Meanwhile, Affiliated Computer Services provides information technology services to industries including telecommunications, retail, financial services and education with presence in Asia and the Pacific, Caribbean & Latin America, Europe, Middle East & Africa, North America, South America.

In the Philiippines, Affiliated Computer Services operates 2 sites located in 7th Flr., One E-COM Center Bldg. cor. Harbor Drive and Sunset Ave., Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City and 6th Floor Skyrise 1, Asiatown IT Park Lahug, Cebu City for a combined workforce of almost 1,200 Pinoy BPO workers.

Very interesting developments here and Pinoy BPO workers, I believe we can expect more to come, all in favor for us finding better opportunities and be able to showcase our world-class skills to a bigger scope of businesses.

For Jobs Central Link, please click here.

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