Despite media accounts and political initiatives to force companies to buy American services and not to outsource work offshore, believe it or not there are plenty of companies who are choosing to buy and/or hire Americans without being forced to do so. In fact, the LBO Wire recently noted that call center group CCT Group Ltd. (which owns Cyber City Teleservices and is backed by HSBC Private Equity Asia Ltd.) has bought fellow call center provider Interactive Response Technologies Inc. for the purposes of offering clients (CCT’s clients include DirecTV, Dell Inc. and Activision while IRT’s clients include T-Mobile, AT&T and Office Depot) what they are apparently happy to pay extra for: American voices and the perception of quality. IRT manages US-based call centers that employ Americans while CCT manages call centers based in the Philippines and Panama and according to a CCT representative, clients are willing to pay US$27-$28 per hour for a US-based service while an offshore service will cost them around US$13-$14 per hour. Read more
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Buried among the headlines of job losses and jobs being outsourced overseas over the past few years, you might be surprised to hear who has been hiring or planning to hire or invest money in the USA – Indian outsourcers. In fact: Read more
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Digest this: The Indian industry contributed $105 billion to the US economy and created as many as 3,00,000 jobs between 2004 and 07, asserted the Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma during his address at the Synergies Summit of the US India Business Council in the US recently. Read more
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Simply put, credibility is the confidence that others have in your ability to deliver results in support of a business. Trust is the confidence in your integrity and reliability. It is easier to win credibility (which is equivalent to competence) —- but trust? That is a different ball game altogether.
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Indian IT companies reduced their hiring phase due to international financial crisis, but the pure Indian BPO Companies are planning to increase their hiring, hoping that they will get more business from US and other western companies.
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In what could turn out to be a real blessing for the state of Rajasthan, Infosys has opened its second BPO campus in the special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Jaipur, Rajasthan. This would help Rajasthan a long way in providing opportunities to young people in outsourcing industry.
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