PH more than ready to meet rise in labor demand abroad

The Philippines is more than ready to meet the anticipated increase in demand for “temporary staff” across multiple industries worldwide, given the expected 200-percent surge in the number of companies that are planning to tap temporary staffing to fill in their employment requirements.

Collabera Philippines, the local unit of US-based Collabera, said the company already developed its hire, train and deploy (HTD) program, which would scale up the local information technology (IT) pool to meet the demand for quality talents that can perform highly specialized IT tasks in various industries.

The program will allow Collabera Philippines to fill in the rising demand for temporary staff from industries, such as banking and insurance, healthcare technology, retail and manufacturing, and engineering, among others.

“The whole HTD program is in line with Collabera’s mission to develop top talents here in the Philippines, supporting the booming IT-BPM industry in the country.

Through the HTD program, Collabera will be able to bring in a robust supply of quality Filipino professionals,” said Priyanshu Singh, Collabera Philippines country head.

The company explained that the HTD program is a regular high-impact employee learning and development program developed and designed to equip employees with specialized IT skills fit to the production and service demands of clients across multiple industries.

Through a combination of its global and local IT experts, the HTD program offers technical training and hands-on practice on the various aspects of being an all-round IT professional.

Collabera runs various comprehensive skills development programs in IT including, but not limited to, application development, software maintenance, computer programming and network management. Upon completion of the program, Collabera employees will have the chance to be deployed in Collabera’s extensive database of leading multinational organizations across diverse industries in the country.

Singh added that the HTD program is a strategic approach toward the fast-evolving needs and complexity of the IT landscape in the country.

“With the current boom in the IT sector in the Philippines, it is a must to develop high quality professionals who can meet the fast-changing needs of different companies in need of IT support,” Singh said. “IT is a very dynamic industry. A few years from now, what we consider as advanced technology will be obsolete. There is a great need to stay updated and get ahead of everyone else. That is why we never stop training our employees.”

Collabera currently has a staff of 450 employees, which is expected to grow to over 1,200 over the next several years to help cater to the rising demand for temporary staffing.  Amy R. Remo