English Club in Eastern Pangasinan

This is in preparation for the upcoming opening of the Minacs Call Center in Urdaneta.

We are going to establish the Eastern Pangasinan English Club for all those who view the English Language as their stepping stone towards a better future.

Objectives:

To help improve and enrich the lives of fellow Urdanetans and Pangasinenses through excellence in the English Language.

To establish an English friendly environment for those who need to comfortably communicate in English.

To assist fellow members in improving and upgrading their English language skills through various activities, events, referrals and connections.

To provide employment assistance through referrals with call centers and other BPO companies.

... these are just some of our objectives for now.

We want to make this really big and successful.

Those who want to join... post here or email us at urdaneta.multiservers@hotmail.com

An open forum has also been set up here <- Click here

Other details on the first assembly will be announced later so keep posted.

Dagupan and Urdaneta to host new call center

URDANETA CITY– Minacs, a major call center company with head office in Libis, Quezon City has confirmed its plan to establish a call center here that will initially open 1,000 jobs.

Councilor Higinio Agsalud, majority floor leader of the city council, said officials of Minacs came to the city twice to express their determination to set up a call center in the city.

When fully operational, the call center will have openings for up to 3,000 call center agents who will be working on three shifts daily.

“The coming of Minacs will stimulate business activities in Urdaneta as several establishments will be prompted particularly restaurants, to open 24 hours a day in order to cater to the demands of call center agents on duty,” Agsalud said.

Minacs is set to rent the whole second floor of the city's public market and the high-rise Shahani Building along the Maharlika Highway in barangay Nancayasan.

The same firm also offered to set up and operate a separate call center in Dagupan City and in other big cities in the country.

In Dagupan, Minacs plans to rent the entire idle third floor of the Malimgas Public Market or the former MC Adore Hotel which is now owned by the Dagupan City government.

Minacs officials were accompanied by former Senator Leticia Ramos Shahani and her son, former Sixth District Rep. Ranjit Ramos Shahani when they called on Urdaneta Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr.

Agsalud hailed the coming of Minacs as it will open jobs to thousands of graduates and unemployed professionals in Urdaneta City, which is the education center in eastern Pangasinan. –LM

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Indian firm eyes Dagupan City for call center expansion

By Danny O. Sagun

Dagupan City (22 July) -- An Indian company is eyeing this city as expansion area for its call center operations.

Representatives of Minacs, a company based in Bangalore, India met with City Mayor Alipio Fernandez, Jr. yesterday to discuss the possibility of establishing a call center in the city. Representatives of the Department of Trade and Industry and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority also attended the meeting.

The group also visited the various colleges and universities in the city for the possible hiring of agents.

It was gathered that call center agents earlier recruited from Pangasinan are now working in Manila and other places where the operations of the call center companies are based. About 700 were said to have been recruited from the province, according to Tesda.

The upper floors of the new Malimgas market on Galvan street was earlier reported as an ideal site for call center operations because of wide space.

The Indian company is also eyeing Urdaneta City for its expansion plans, it was learned. (PIA-Pangasinan)

Call Center Job Fair in Urdaneta Successful

2 days

100 aspirants

8 for contract signing

They had only less than a week to actively promote the Call Center Job Fair thru flyers, banners and even online.But the hiring team of NCO and the GSI staff can now say that the two day event is a resounding success.

Compared to other venues in Northern Luzon where the passing rate was sometimes 0% out of 170 applicants, this recent event held at the GlobalSkills Institute in Urdaneta City has produced 8 applicants invited by NCO for contract signing at the Clark office. The NCO team also reported that at least two dozen more applicant only missed a few points in the hiring process and would be glad to refer them for training with ther Global Skills Institute to hone and polish thier English Skills, especially on Accent training.

Because of the good turnout of applicants, both NCO and GlobalSkills Institute have agreed to make the career Fair a regular thing. Possibly once a month or once every two months.

The Philippines is closely trailing India in the IT and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry. Unfortunately, while the Philippines has been tagged as the third largest English speaking country in the world, the level of proficiency among Filipinos has been on a steep decline in the last 10 years. Call center recruiting has been meeting increasing challenges in finding qualified applicants as days go by. The good news is that the government as well as private entities have been exerting effort to reverse the downward trend.

It has been reported that the Call center industry is stated to boom into a 10-billion dollar industry in the Philippines by year 2010.

This is an original publication of Urdaneta.Multiservers.Com