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.
Philippines Call Center Norm CCAP
I just got done talking with a friend that owns a call center here and he talked about the CCAP seminar which he said was really good! He talked about the VP of etelecare and how he said the Philippines was very different from the States but they can still be trained on how to change there culture.
Here are some of his stories that he talked about in his seminar about Philippines call centers.
First he was walking into a mall here in the Philippines and when you are going to a mall the have guard office pat you down to make sure that you don’t have any guns on you and he got up set about it because in the States there is no guards patting you down, you just walk right in no problems. So being upset that he got padded down be went back out to have a smoke to clam him down but then remembering that he is going to have to go through it all again no matter what. That’s the first one, here in the Philippines every one is already us est to guards at the mall from when they were born so that’s the Philippines norm.
Next one
He is looking for a store so he asks his wife to ask the guard were it is at and he say its straight and then take a left and there it is. So he goes straight and takes a left but its not there, so his wife ask another guard and he says not it’s down on the next floor, you go straight and then take a left. So they go to the next floor and they go straight and then go left but the same thing no store, so his wife asks another guard and he says no no it’s on the 3rd floor then you go straight and then go left. So the finally founds it but it took him all that long to find this place which made him up set which is not customer services, that’s the Philippines Norm, if you where in the States most times the person would tell you where it is and then most times say tell you what I have some free time how about I show you, now that is customer service.
Next one
He gets to the store and he is looking for a serge protector for his 42″ LCD TV because he heard that the Philippines power can go up and down and he wanted to protect his 3,000 dollar tv. So he walks into the store and there are 9 guys just standing around pretty much doing nothing, he looks at one of the sergue protectors which there are 50 different kinds and he points at one and one of the sales guys comes over to him and says that it’s the best one that they have and he asked why? The sales rep said because it has a five minute delay if the power ever surges or shuts off, he asked why is this five minute delay so important and the sales rep could only tell him that it had a five minute delay and the parts are made in Japan. So now he is not sure what to buy so he goes to a TV stop and he sees some thing like what he is looking for and he said, hey I need some thing like that and he asks them if it has a five minute delay and the sales rep did not have any idea about what he was talking about and said all I know this is what we used, it’s called Panther. So he goes back to the other shop and tells the sales rep I want a Panther that is the best one but the rep says we don’t sale Panther but this one I was telling you about is the best and he says tell you what, if you buy this I will come and install it for you. Now the VP of etelecare says now that is customer service!
So now the sales rep has installed this at his house to his TV and everything is good to go, DONE but he has no real way to test it out to see what happens? So he calls the build admin and ask them about his TV and surge protector to see if it would work, the build admin just laughed at him and said sir, the whole build is set up with back up generators and surge protectors so no matter what if the power every surged or system would cover it.
Here is his point on this one, the sales rep did not ask him enough question to figure out why he needed this surge protector. When you are dealing with sales or customer service you need to define what the customer is asking and how you can help them, the Philippines norm is just sale and you need to know about the products that you are selling.
The seminar end good and he said that you need to train your people well on how that the States acted and what they want, kind out what they are looking for and why they need the product they are selling.
Who every did this seminar from what it sounds like they did a very good job, I would love to meet them.
I hope I got the story right.
CCAP sounds like the real deal, I will be at the next one.
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.
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Top ten outsourcing countries in the world
Here’s an article that I found about the top countries in the world for outsourcing but not sure if its for real!
Here is the list
1.India
2.China
3.Malaysia
4.Philippines
5.Hungary
6.Czech Republic
7.Russia
8.South Africa
9.Mexico
10.Poland
I did not know allot of these countries where on this list and I would have thought that Philippines would have been number two at least but I guess with allot of the manufacturing going on that’s why.
I think that you are going to see the Philippines move up this list in the next couple of years because allot of countries are getting tired of the accents of other countries but the Philippines call centers seem to be improving year by year and with a huge American influence it will make it even bigger.
I have been looking at other countries that in the future could be a place that would be cheaper and better then the Philippines but at this time I don’t see anything that is popping up right now or any time soon, I still think the Philippines has the best of everything that you need for outsourcing or call center type work.
On a last note, Malaysia at number three is crazy I did not even know if was outsourcing let along to be the number three on the list, I did do some reading online and it even said that the Philippines was cheaper in cost then there to do business.
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