The Iraqi government is set to reconstruct their country next year. Starting 2009, they are planning to renew their infrastructure and they would be needing thousands and thousands, maybe 10 million workers, said Adel Hamoudi, charge d’affaires of the Iraqi embassy in Manila. “We really need Filipinos’ help,” Hamoudi added.
This could bring hope to our […]

With the boost that the call center industry has brought to the Philippine economy, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is now envisioning a call center in every province. She has already given instructions to the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) to determine its feasibility and see how it can be done.
In her speech […]

The Philippine government will not lift the ban on Filipinos going to Iraq. Malacañang said on Wednesday that it will not lift the order barring Filipinos from going and working in Iraq. This, despite the request of the Iraq’s envoy to the Philippine government to lift the said order.
Late last month, Falih Al-Assadi, charge d’affaires […]

According to A Dictionary of Psychology, NLP or neuro-linguistic programming is a form of psychotherapy and a model of interpersonal communication in the tradition of humanistic psychology based on elements of transformational grammar and preferred sensory representations for learning and self-expression.
As scientific as this meaning goes, it basically means that it is a study of […]

According to Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) executive director Maria Jamea Garcia, Philippines is well positioned to corner a 10 % share of the global outsourcing and offshoring market by 2010, with a likely revenues of $13 billion adding direct employment of almost 1 million workers.
Mindanao continues to develop business environment that can […]

“There’s this thinking that returning Overseas Filipino Workers can come back and suddenly become entrepreneurs but not all of them can become businessmen or women upon their return to the Philippines,” said Guillermo Luz, executive vice-president of the Ayala Foundation - USA (AF-USA).
Luz delivered a paper on “Alternatives for Making the Most Out of Remittances: […]

Don’t look now, the global economic crisis affects the Philippines in more ways than we can think of. Specifically, our Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) are facing fears of losing their jobs amidst this crisis.
Christy Arciaga, a Filipino maid, does not own any shares but her businessman employer does. And according to her, he has become […]

As the economy has changed significantly over the past twenty years, traditional sources of competitive advantage have become obsolete. During the Industrial Age, which lasted from approximately 1938 through 1974, a company’s competitive advantage could be based on having a product that dominated the market, developing a proprietary technology to produce products or deliver service, […]