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Call Center Jobs In The Philippines
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Philippine Call Centers VS. India Call Centers
The Philippines has officially overtook India in call centers and voice related work as of today, and how exactly did that happen?
· The Philippines was colonized by the Americans for roughly 48 years so there is a strong similarity and familiarity towards the American culture and many Filipinos now live in the USA as well.
· What is more, English is used in the education system and is widely spoken by Filipinos. And the Philippines Produces Hundreds of thousands of English Speaking College Graduates each year.
· Filipino officials visited India to See for themselves and study if why Call Centers Industry is such a big one in India. When they returned to the Philippines, they rationalized the approval process for the setting up of call centers and changed their rules to allow individual buildings to become special economic zones offering tax breaks, quick clearances for permits and exemptions from import duties for necessary IT and Telco equipment. In addition, a government-sponsored training program through TESDA was created to improve the English and communication skills of students who wish to work in the industry.
· Philippine senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago said she would file a measure to further jump-start support for the BPO industry and its workers plus she urged other legislators to come up with laws that would support this so-called “booming sunshine industry” in the country.
· The Philippines has a lot more younger work force than those of in India.
To summarize, The Philippines has formally overtaken the Call Center crown from India by adopting through a lot of things and by still curving literacy through the industry as we speak. But in the contrary we are still far behind by a few aspects by India Including IT and software related jobs since India produces about nearly half a million IT graduates each year. In short The Philippines has overtaken India in call centers, however it remains far behind in more sophisticated outsourcing services.
Night Shift VS. Morning Shift
I’ve been working in the call center industry for almost 2 years now and this is my first job and I can say that it is not an easy job. The first few months were really though for me, I was having a hard time adjusting to my schedule since it was a night shift or most commonly coined in the call center industry as “GRAVEYARD SHIFT” and I am kind of used to waking up early in the morning when I was still schooling and I mean everyone else is kind of used to waking up in the morning when the sun shines instead of waking up in the evening when the sun is setting already. So on the first few months of my existence as a call center agent I always have this thought in mind that “I wish I was on the morning shift instead, at least it was a normal life. During those unending night shifts I was always sleepy and my team leader will always have to give me warnings about me being sleepy and slouchy and worst is that I was given a formal written warning for falling asleep during a call and what is even worst after that is a suspension because I fell asleep for almost 5 minutes during a call. Also I feel like my immune system is not coping up that much with the graveyard schedules I feel week and I also don’t have time to exercise or alt least sweat up a bit coz after my night shift I will be too weak to exercise and I’d be better off sleeping instead. After that you wake up in the evening and go to work again. Pretty much the same cycle everyday. Most of the time I would be half awake and would say to myself I do wanna go to work I dowanna go back to sleep and worst is when you over sleep and get up late for work but in the end there’s nothing that you can do but to wake up, prepare and go to work.
On the positive side I like night shift coz there are no heavy traffic and you also get at least 25-30% Night Differential for working nights and I of course love the people and find it fun to work in the early morning when the sun is shining brightly, but besides that that is pretty much it. I mean you know how dangerous it is to go out during wee hours so for those people saying how easy and chicken feed call center jobs are, try to experience it first before you put us down.
Morning shift is my dream shift It’s like heaven for call center agents. It’s like you’re a normal person waking up early in the morning to prepare yourself and go to work. Right now I’m in a call center company that deals with Australian clients so I got to have a normal day shift with still the same perks of a call center which I am so loving right now. We have a lot of time talking to our bosses and exchanging stories of everyday life without feeling drowsy or sleepy. After work I can still go to the gym and exercise which is something I can’t do before. In other words I love my schedule and the company that I am with right now. Sometimes I still get to be late because of the traffic, but I can really adjust on my time to travel to go to the office all though Morning is also equivocal to Traffic the office is really accessible to all places and plus the sun is shining brightly and I fear nothing as I know a lot less crimes are out there compared to being out in the wee hours. Morning shift is really my dream schedule and It’s safe to say also of the majority of the call center people in the Philippines.
Pros And Cons Of Working In A Call Center
The Pros and Cons of working in a Call Center in the Philippines My purpose of writing this article is for people who are planning to get into the Call Center Industry and as well for people who are currently in the
Industry to mainly re-evaluate their career in this field.
Let us start with the Pros of working in a Call Center in the Philippines:
Working in a Call Center is considered as one of the most high-paying job in the Philippines.
University diploma is usually not required as long as you are 18 years old, you are knowledgeable in using the computer and most Microsoft office applications and you speak good English, you are eligible to apply.
The trainings are also free; you get to be compensated already while you are on training.
There is also no age-limit.Even students can work in a Call Center since the Schedules are very flexible
day and night, so they can work nights and study mornings or vice versa, being said that for everyone’s sake yes guys, there are also Day Shifts in Call centers, most clients are Australians and people from the UK.
Most Call Centers also provide their employees Health cards for them and
their family. They also provide you with Term Life Insurance Plans and even Tuition Fee
reimbursements. On most companies also upon regularization you get additional perks and privileges like Appraisals, Rice Subsidy and Gym discounts and a lot more.
Talking on a different page if you are single and ready to mingle, the Call Center industry also gets large pool of Good Looking men and women as most of them are yuppies and newly grads.
Gaining promotions in this industry is also easy; if you’re a team player, and you are knowledgeable enough to handle your tasks efficiently then you can get a promotion. What is also different is that in the Call Center Industry, you can get apromotion as early as 3 months, unlikely to that of the regular jobs.
And I guess the least that they realize is that they get to experience indirectly how it is to work overseas specifically in the united states, they also get the chance to jump into the western culture since most of the
clients/customer’s they are dealing with are westerns.
After the Pros, It’s time to talk about the Cons:
Since most of the clients of Call Center in the Philippines are Western Countries like The United States, Canada and the like, most of the Call Centers in the Philippines starts their operations during the night since
the Philippine time is directly opposite to the time in the United states and Canada and the like, so these means Night Shifts and Graveyard shifts for their employees.There is also no assurance of retaining a specific schedule throughout the year compared to normal day jobs, in a call center shifts are flexi meaning it can change on a weekly basis, monthly or quarterly too which also means that there are no guarantees that you will get a week-end rest.
You at times may also have to work on Philippine Holidays since you are following a different calendar, time and also you are supporting a different country with a whole different sets of their own holidays, so more likely that you will also follow their holidays instead, but take note that there are also 24/7 accounts so the operations is 24 hours a day and 7 days a week which means that at time you might also work even on your client’s holidays. Health is one of the greatest risk in this industry if you do not know how to balance your work – home life, since you most likely work at night, you tend to sleep all day long when everyone else is up and you may also lose your Body Clock and may most likely be a result of non-regular meal times
and eating habits, lastly Call Center agents accounts to at least 30-40% of tobacco use in the country.
Domestic issues and other sort of relationship issues from family and friends and everyone else may also account to this type of job since it is a bit challenging for you to cope up to everyone in your family and with your friends who are most likely working the normal day jobs. Turning to the other page, Call Center people party hard during the Morning and also gets that tendencies of being alcoholic because drinking in the
morning after shifts helps you sleep better in the morning when the sun is shining bright.
Not to mention the risks of you getting hold-up, snatched and abused when traveling going to work on wee hours.
Lastly when your client or so called accounts in the CC you are into pulled out or closed down, you will have to either resign or wait in floating status for you to transferred into any other clients/accounts available.
Now that you are aware of the Pros and Cons of working in a call center in The Philippines, It is all up to you if you will live up to the challenge and get paid really BIG Time or stick with the regular low-paying Day Jobs.
Living On A Call Center Agents Wage
Normally just like the others who want’s to work in a call center industry, they up with the big salary and the signing bonus that the company’s offering. Based on personal observations, call center salaries have been skyrocketing here in the Philippines.
Living in a call center agent can be hurled with so much stress. Living with bunch of struggling, happiness, competition, teamwork and sometimes disappointments, you can experience all of that in our call center world but we have to learn to love it. Being Focus and Positive these two main ingredients can put you on the level of success, just like other field of work. It’s not like you come in, have a sit, put your headset on, make a call, get a sale, cigarette break, make a call, get a sale, go home and just wait for the cut off and then do it again and again. Being a call center agent needs flexibility and determination in order for you to get your goal.
Working in a call center industry is quite hard for the beginners. It’s interesting for everyone because the pay is pretty good. Some call center is offering a big salary for the people who had an call center experiences but some it only raise to minimum pay. Based on my experience as a call center agent, I’ve started with the basic pay of 12 thousand per month, that’s not big enough to support my family and my self. It is also depends on the situation or status in life of the person who’s working on a call center company with the basic pay of 12 thousand per month, if he/she is single and without any problem supporting a family he/she can do or spend the salary that he have earned , but if you had a family to support to it’s really hard to tell that the basic pay of 12 thousand or 15 thousand is enough to support your family and paying your bills.
Some call center companies they don’t know how to handle or take care of their agents. Salary is the main reason the main reason of all call center agents, first things first the company, They should add incentives so that agents will be motivated to come to work regularly.
Philippines The Wild Wild West
I have been talking to allot of people and friends that have some bad blood with some of the people that they have partnered with or are working with and when some thing bad happens every one thinks that the Philippines is the wild wild west. Pretty much they all start saying that I’m going to kill you are have you taking care of and they really mean it but almost 99.9% of the time nothing happens. I have had many talks with some friends about this because they are worried about some one that is really going to kill them because a deal with south and most times people take this very serious but for me I have heard it a couple times and nothing had ever happened. Allot of people that have never spent time in the Philippines really have no idea, all they hear is the stories from internet or friends that might have spent a little bit of time here. They Philippines is a nice place and it’s no wear near as bad as people say that it is. There are goods and bad’s about the Philippines but it’s like that in any country that you go.
If you very come here to the Philippines just make sure that you are staying in a safe area and you will be fine.
Dave Kreitzer coming? Philippines?
Is Dave really coming? I don’t know but I love his music, I hope he does.
The new hit band
