Bacolod Councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue yesterday said that the Bacolod City IT Focus Team plans to come up with a data bank of potential workforce for IT locators that intend to open contact center sites in Bacolod City.

Batapa-Sigue said that when the IT locators come to Bacolod, they will ask for the data bank of potential workers. She said pre-screening forms for applicants are now available at her office at City Hall.

Batapa-Sigue said the potential workforce include enrollees, career shifters, OFW returnees, retirees, underemployed, unemployed and high school graduates

She said that the IT Focus Team, created by virtue of Executive Order No. 8 issued by Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia in June 2005, meets regularly and has conducted several activities in order to promote Bacolod as an IT hub. She said the team is also planning to create an online resume.

Batapa-Sigue said the Commission on Information and Communications Technology is looking at Bacolod as a potential for 10,000 seats by 2010. She said the IT Team is now concentrating its efforts to strengthen local manpower pool.

She said Robinsons Metro Bacolod at Araneta Street is now registered with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority and has a Presidential Proclamation for the purpose of income tax holiday.

PEZA believes that local officials who are supportive of the move are those with long term vision because for the first three to four years, the locators will enjoy income tax holiday, but after four years they will remit to the local government two percent of their gross income (in dollars) and three percent to the national government, she added.

Meanwhile, Cyber City Teleservices, Ltd., a call center based in Clark Field, Pampanga, is in need of qualified call center agents for immediate hiring.

The company said in a press release that interested applicants may bring their resume and transcript of records during the job fair on Jan. 21 to 24 at Casa Orola Building, Rizal-Hilado streets, Bacolod City.*CGS

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