EDGEDAVAO
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VOL.5 ISSUE 235 • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013
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BPO BOOM
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5,000 new jobs ICT Davao sees increase in workforce to 21,000 in 2013
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Target is 35,000 jobs by 2015
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Follow Us On DAMAGED. Germelita Roncales shows her stilt house damaged by the heavy rain and strong winds brought by a tail-end of cold front that hit Davao City recently
in Purok Pisces, Barangay Lasang in Davao City Monday afternoon. Lean Daval Jr.
NFORMATION Technology groups in Davao City are optimistic the industry will deliver an additional 5,000 jobs this year. The ICT Davao expects the number of jobs to be added to the Information TechnologyBusiness Process Outsourcing (ITBPO) industry from the present 16,000-workforce. Eriberto “Bert “ Barriga Jr., executive vice president of the umbrella organization of IT groups in Davao City, said the present IT-BPO workforce in the city could reach 21,000 by year’s end. Barriga said more call centers will be locating in the city, but declined to name them as a matter of policy among investor locators. One of the companies will be located at the soon-to-be-completed Abreeza Corporate Center. Last year, several thousand more jobs were added to the industry with the opening of BPO companies such as VXI Global whose contact
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