In the Philippines, by working on a mechanism to sustain training programs for would-be employees, the country Software Industry Association or PSIA is looking to improve manpower creation for the software development industry for the country. The Director of the PSIA for Technology Calen Legaspi stated that the organization will be meeting with a several other academic institutions involved in information technology and software development training. The Philippines Society of Information Technology Educators or PSIET and the Coordinating Council for Private Educational Association or COCOPEA is included here.
The meetings are important to help build the necessary manpower demand of the software industry in the Philippines this is stated by a co-founder of software development training and outsource service provider Orange and Bronze, Legaspi. Orange and Bronze or O&B is the companies that provides a training on a number of software development skills. In 2006, the Philippine software industry is hiring about 40,000 people as of 2010, up from merely 10,000. In the country, there are also 400 software development companies. In 2009, the industry also performed well even during the global economic crisis earning $568 million, with expected revenues of $1 billion by the end of 2010.
For the development of manpower for the software industry was government funding, this is one of the major reasons for the development of manpower. It is particularly through the e-Government Fund of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology CICT and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority or TESDA. The PSIA said that it is looking at internally generated funding to push through with training of more people.
In the coming months, the problem is not the work because they are already expecting a lot of outsourced projects. To build the capacity to accommodate all those projects is they need to do. This is the reason why they are looking at other funding mechanisms to ensure that they have the skilled workers to fill the industry needs. The organization is working closely with the Commission on Higher Education or CHED to standardized computer science curriculum in universities and colleges.
May graduates of Information Technology and Computer Science courses are not that even well equipped with the skills necessary to be part of the workforce. They have to ensure that even though they have enough manpower, they hire people who can work properly, people who can follow the rules and regulations.
The outsourcing is the way to improve the things in the world. This is now the biggest trend in the world, wherein many people wants to be a part of the outsourcing industry. People want to experience life in outsourcing. Most of the biggest and even the small companies outsource inside and outside the company and country. Not all people want the outsourcing way but the point is, why they need to judge it? People should also look in the good side of outsourcing. Outsourcing has lots of benefits and people can earn and save money here. Business Process Outsourcing is a big help in the industry and in the economy of the said country.
REFERENCE:
http://loqal.ph/business-and-finance/2011/03/01/more-filipino-developers-needed-for-outsourced-services/
http://www.orangeandbronze.com/more-filipino-developers-needed-for-outsourced-services-2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_outsourcing_in_the_Philippines
