2019-06-27T22:10:44+00:00

Multinationals in Colombia open more than 5,000 job vacancies from home

04/25/2020 Business

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Blu Radio reviews 3 companies that these days opened job openings from home, a great option if you consider the current situation of many Colombians.

The situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic has such an impact on the economy that an estimated 1.4 million Colombians could lose their jobs during this quarantine season, according to Fedesarrollo figures published by Semana.

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Against this background, the following become viable alternatives for many Colombians confined to their homes to protect themselves from contagion with coronavirus.

The 3 companies highlighted by Blu are Amazon, Teleperformance and World Ventures.

Amazon, the US-based ‘online’ sales store, has opened 1,000 openings in the country for positions as customer service agents, software developers and program managers, some of them permanent, others temporary, Blu reported.

Teleperformance, for its part, has always been a company that derives its operation from ‘call centers’, and understood that to do so it is not always necessary to have offices, because through software, the Internet and a telephone line at home a person can be equally efficient.

For this reason, as Semana reports, the French firm opened 4,000 vacancies in Colombia, especially for customer service agents, with a salary that starts at 1,600,000 pesos.

The main requirement, according to the magazine, is that the applicant be bilingual in English, French or Portuguese, since the core of the business is serving clients from countries that handle those languages.

Telecommuting

Semana ensures that the vacancies offer an indefinite term contract with their respective social benefits; The medium says that all activities will be carried out under the telework model. No previous experience in ‘call centers’ is required.

World Ventures is the other multinational that offers employment from home. According to El Tiempo, it is a tele-entrepreneurship to work remotely through a virtual platform that serves the tourism sector and published a phone number in which interested parties can request information about the company and the vacancies it offers: 322 286 9418.

For Gustavo Petro, allowing construction and manufacturing employees to leave in quarantine is practically ending with confinement. why, he said in an interview with El Espectador, are u201cfundamental for the economy of the city.

The decision of President Iv u00e1n Duque, said the senator in the newspaper, is to u20a0 start to produce u201cruity u201d, because with isolation what he does is u201cfrar the profits u201d.

u201cDuque yielded to the pressure of bankers and large companies, and with that he can condemn part of the population to contagion and death, starting with the workforce that takes to the streets. It is a disastrous measure, the congressman said.

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