Call centers recruiting Salvadorans abroad
An interesting article on the CNN website notes how foreign companies which operate call centers in El Salvador have started to recruit workers from the population of Salvadorans living in the United States. Call centers need English-speakers, and the companies hope to lure young people who learned English in the US back to El Salvador to work the phones. According to the story:
In order to meet the demands of companies outsourcing their call centers to El Salvador, the Central American country is beginning a program to recruit its employees from an unlikely location: the United States.
The Salvadoran government's economic development organization has started a program called "Meet Your Roots" that "looks for children of Salvadorans born in the U.S. and Canada to reside and work temporarily in El Salvador in order to strengthen their identity and ties to the country," according to the organization's Web site.
While strengthening cultural ties, the Salvadoran who staffs call centers serving the U.S. market can earn up to $1,500 a month.
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Your understanding has not been very accurate. Even if it were, do you have anything against the "working class" making more than managers?
Besides,wages are determined by supply vs. demand. If plumbers are relatively scarcer than marketers, plumbers make more money than marketers. Nothing wrong with that! Long live the "working class"!
Likewise, if phone-minded English speakers can make more than the average monolingual Salvadorean, what's there not to like? It might even drive Salvadoreans to better ourselves and learn a second or third language.
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It's not what I want or I don't want. It has to do with the nature of capitalism. A business that pays more than the going wage better make sure that the services they're selling will command a sufficient price to cover their overhead AND generate a profit. El Salvador isn't Bangladesh. The cost of engaging in a first-world-style business in this country isn't as low as you seem to imagine. And no, flipping pupusas is not a first-world-style endeavor.
To visitador. You bet... long live the proletariat! ... you douche.
Do they (people promoting call centers) honestly believe that after people have made great sacrifices to flee the country to go to the US to get a decent job, learn English, live in peace, etc, they want to go back or send their children to work for a miserable salary in El Salvador? Do they honestly believe that people are that stupid? Who is going to be stupid enough to go back the most violent country in latin america to get a job that pays much less than the average job in the US?
The salvadoran government should stop spending millions of dollars in stupid propaganda, and they should invest those resources in promoting and offering free English classes for LOCAL students who have good grades in order for them to qualidy for these jobs; By doing that, the government will be helping reduce local unemployment.. and who knows? that may even help reduce the number os mareros on the streets.
Perhaps the government doesn't want to do that; perhaps they want high unemployment rate, hight crime rate, so people flee the country to go to the US, and we all know that more emigration of salvadorans equals more REMESAS.
This call centers thing sound more like a "Bienvenido Hermano Lejano" for the deported mareros. STUPID IDEA.
Call center industry is so much bigger now.Also most important aspect of 21 Century. if You need call center company it provide Telemarketing Call Center & Phone Answering Call Center Services.
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