Laoag City, Ilocos Norte — More job vacancies are seen in the information technology and business process outsourcing sector (IT-BPO) in Ilocos region and other parts of the country this year, Director Grace Ursua of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said over the weekend.
This developed when Ma. Lourdes Sison of SITEL, Inc. and Judelyn Cruz of Sutherland reported that IT-BPO sector is growing by leaps and bounds as they both echoed projections that the IT-BPO sector is poised to achieve its growth target of topping the 960,000 IT-BPO jobs in 2013 and revenues of US$16 billion.
The IT and Business Process Association in the Philippines (IBPAP) had projected that the IT-BPO sector is likely to exceed its target of raking in US$25 billion in revenues by 2016 due to the faster year-on-year growth of 19 % that it has been experiencing.
Sison and Cruz made the announcement when they appeared in a regional PESO Year-end Performance Assessment recently with the 70 managers of Public Employment Service Offices (PESOs) in Region 1.
Earlier, DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz confirmed that IT-BPO sector needs a lot of workers.
“Officials of the IBPAP sought out the DOLE’s help on how to fill-up hard-to-fill jobs in the IT-BPO sector because apparently it is not attracting that many jobseekers,” Baldoz.
She lauded the DOLE Region 1 Office for bringing in IT-BPO sector representatives to orient the region’s PESO managers about the sector.

Source: Manila Bulletin- February 17, 2014