http://carlosconde.com/2006/11/29/call-centers-hang-up-english-skills/ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://carlosconde.com/2006/11/29/call-centers-hang-up-english-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Andrew Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:01:37 +0000 http://carlosconde.com/2006/11/29/call-centers-hang-up-english-skills/#comment-8 Here in Davao, English is like a people repellant. Schools here have become so substandard it's not a surprise that most people can't speak decent English. If you can speak English well you become a conversation piece, a novelty perhaps, and that won't change until everyone else chooses to smart up. Here in Davao, English is like a people repellant. Schools here have become so substandard it’s not a surprise that most people can’t speak decent English. If you can speak English well you become a conversation piece, a novelty perhaps, and that won’t change until everyone else chooses to smart up.

]]> http://carlosconde.com/2006/11/29/call-centers-hang-up-english-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Davao Today -- News, commentary, analysis, reports from Davao City, the Philippines Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:36:58 +0000 http://carlosconde.com/2006/11/29/call-centers-hang-up-english-skills/#comment-4 [...] This, however, completely undermines what has been touted as the industry’s greatest contributions to the economy — to spread the wealth of the call-center industry to the provinces and to generate jobs in these places. Of course, call centers have been put up in the provinces but if this recruitment trend continues — and it looks like it will, considering the active recruitment by these companies in such areas as Davao and Cagayan de Oro — there may come a time that the companies will find out that, in the end, it might be cheaper to do business in major urban areas such as Cebu and Manila. The signs, as this issue suggests, already point to that. [...] [...] This, however, completely undermines what has been touted as the industry’s greatest contributions to the economy — to spread the wealth of the call-center industry to the provinces and to generate jobs in these places. Of course, call centers have been put up in the provinces but if this recruitment trend continues — and it looks like it will, considering the active recruitment by these companies in such areas as Davao and Cagayan de Oro — there may come a time that the companies will find out that, in the end, it might be cheaper to do business in major urban areas such as Cebu and Manila. The signs, as this issue suggests, already point to that. [...]

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