Easy Move Canada is engaged in the following businesses:
STAFFING AND RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS:
• Providing Canadian Healthcare Facilities and Employers with qualified foreign Healthcare Workers to address their recruitment and retention challenges;
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• Providing Canadian Businesses and Employers with suitable foreign Skilled Workers to address their hard to fill job positions and retention problems;
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BUSINESS AND TRADE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES:
• Providing Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services for Canadian Businesses who are looking for qualified BPO providers, and matching these companies with suitable BPO Companies from the Philippines to address their outsourcing needs;
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• Trade and Marketing services for Canadian Businesses who need marketing of their products and services in Asia, or Asian Businesses looking for distribution and marketing partners for their products or services in Canada;
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JOB PLACEMENT AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES:
• Providing job placement for Foreign Skilled Worker Applicants with employable skills and matching them with suitable Canadian employers to enable them to come to Canada with a valid Work Permit;
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• Processing of Canadian Immigration Applicants with employable skills and matching them with job sponsors / employers to successfully apply for immigration to Canada as Permanent Residents together with their families under the Federal or the Provincial Nominee Program’s Skilled Worker Application;
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• Marketing promotion and recruitment of international students for Canadian Universities to bring them to Canada to study, including support services for visa application assistance and settlement services for these International Students;
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EMC: Business Process Outsourcing
Outsourcing initially became part of the business jargon during the 1980s and refers to the delegation of non-core business processes internal production to an external entity specializing in the management of that operation. The decision to outsource is often made in the interest of lowering firm costs, redirecting or conserving energy directed at the competencies of a particular business, or to make more efficient use of worldwide labor, capital, technology and resources.
Easy Move Canada capitalizes on its wide network, knowledge and reliable contacts with business process outsource (BPO) companies in the Philippines, a major reliable source country for these services. EMC has links with small and medium size BPO companies who can flexibly address start-up requirements of clients new to BPO. EMC continuously seeks Canadian companies who recognize the value of outsourcing its non-core business processes and match them with suitable BPO companies in the Philippines.
EMC can discuss the viability of outsourcing for Canadian companies who are new to it. The benefits are obvious, the disadvantages are minimal, and the eventual potential gain for business enterprises are tremendous. From web design and maintenance and creation and administration of complex websites, medical transcriptions, or just about any kind of job that can be done overseas, EMC bridges your needs and builds solutions to your business needs.
BENEFITS OF OUTSOURCING
Many business organizations today are making the decision to outsource. In today’s global marketplace outsourcing has made itself accessible to many organizations on a national and international level. Offshore outsourcing has provided many businesses with the opportunity to harvest the benefits of lower labor costs in developing countries and/or take advantage of lower valued foreign currencies. Through outsourcing, companies today have the ability to develop competitive strategies that will leverage their financial positions in the ever competitive global marketplace. Outsourcing is also successful in increasing product quality and/or substantially lowering firm and consumer costs (e.g., increases the quality to cost ratio). Because outsourcing allows for lower costs, even if quality reduces slightly, which is sometimes the case, productivity increases, which benefits the economy in aggregate. Outsourcing can also present advantages to beneficiary countries, typically developing countries, such as Philippines, China, India, and some Eastern European countries- in terms of increased wages, job prestige, education, and quality of life.
Some major advantages that business organizations can expect to obtain through outsourcing include the ability to purchase intellectual capital, to focus on core competencies, to better anticipate future costs and to lower costs. Overall, outsourcing is viewed by many organizations as a strong business tactic that ultimately is a superior economical approach to developing products and services.
BPO INDUSTRY IN THE PHILIPPINES
BPO is regarded as one of the fastest growing industries in the world. International investment consultancy firm McKinsey & Co. predicts that the demand for outsourcing services will reach $180 billion in 2010, with the customer contact services, finance and accounting, and human resource sub-sectors taking up the biggest shares. When it comes to the trend in primary business requirements, experts are seeing a shift from cost-effectiveness preferences to quality and competence, which strengthens the Philippines' position as an emerging global leader in the BPO industry.
The BPO boom in the Philippines is currently led by demand for offshore call centers. The Philippines raked in offshore service generating revenues of $2.1 billion in 2006, placing third behind India and China and slightly ahead of Malaysia. That's up 62% over the $1.3 billion it gained in 2004, and a huge increase from the start of the decade when the outsourcing industry in Manila employed just 2,400 people and the industry had revenues of merely $24 million. It is estimated that 200,000 people are working in 120 BPO (mostly Contact Centers) in the Philippines in 2006. Overall, Philippine BPO is forecasted to earn US$11 billion and employing 900,000 people by the year 2010.
The recent growth spurt in the outsourcing industry in the Philippines has been fueled not by traditional low-value-added call centers but more higher-end outsourcing such as legal services, Web design, medical transcription, software development, animation, and shared services. Though call centers still form the largest part of the sector, the Philippines has begun leveraging its creative design talent pool, its large pool of lawyers, and its professionals in accounting and finance.
To achieve and sustain this rapid growth, the Philippine government is offering significant fiscal and non-fiscal incentives to attract foreign direct investment in these industries as part of its Investment Priorities Plan. Majority of the BPO facilities are located in Metro Manila and in some other regional areas and urban center. Major companies that already operate in the Philippines include AIG, AOL, Barnes & Noble, Chevron, Citigroup, Dell, HP, HSBC, IBM, Intel, JPMorgan Chase, Motorola, Procter & Gamble, Siemens AG and Trend Micro. Roster of outsourcing clients includes NEC Telecom, Caltex, Fujitsu and Alitalia. Notable BPO vendors include international players Accenture, Convergys, and Unisys.
There are numerous smaller operations that either support larger vendors during seasonal demands, or directly service small and medium overseas companies. Smaller operations maintain their viability through flexibility, low overhead and direct management by its owners. They are normally more responsive to the start-up needs of small and medium overseas companies. EMC specializes in start-up outsourcing needs of these companies and can provide solutions to link them up with suitable BPO providers.
OUTSOURCING JOBS OFFERED
LEGAL AND MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES:
The companies that EMC can link up with do mostly medical reports, discharge summaries, operative reports, therapy/rehabilitation notes, chart notes, and hospital and clinic reports using state-of-the-art software and equipment from the U.S. They can transcribe up to 1,000 lines per medical transcriptionist per day at a 98% average accuracy rate, and they conduct training programs for their transcriptionists to continuously upgrade their performance. Most of them offer 24x7 services and have an average turnaround time of 24 hours, with the ability to deliver output in 3 to 6 hours in emergency cases.
The industry is now in the process of pursuing certification for individual companies’ services to further promote the country’s capabilities in this area. An industry alliance is also now being forged to ensure the sector’s continued growth in partnership with the government. Inclusion of medical transcription subjects in medical courses is likewise being pushed, to further expand the Philippine’s pool of skilled medical transcriptionists.
FINANCE, LOGISTICS AND ACCOUNTING:
The Philippines is fast becoming a regional and global hub for shared corporate backroom operations, especially for financial services such as accounting and bookkeeping, account maintenance, accounts receivable collection, accounts payable administration, payroll processing, asset management, financial analysis and auditing, management consulting, inventory control and purchasing, expense and revenue reporting, financial reporting, tax reporting, and other finance-related services such as financial leasing, credit card administration, factoring and stock brokering; as well as for logistics management, and cargo shipment management.
Accounting primarily for these companies’ choice of the Philippines as the location for their shared backroom operations is the country’s rich pool of low-cost yet English- and IT-proficient business, accounting, HRM and engineering graduates. Moreover, the World Competitiveness Report 2001 ranked the Philippines 16th of 49 countries for “International Business Experience.” These professionals are also particularly noteworthy for their marked customer service orientation, superior work ethic, high degree of trainability, flexibility, multicultural adaptability, and loyalty. Rounding up the Philippines’ advantages as a BPO destination are its strategic location, the availability of prime yet low-cost real estate in the country, its good and increasingly cost-competitive telecommunications and other business infrastructure, its expatriate-agreeable lifestyle, and its progressively IT-supportive policies and incentives.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND ANIMATION:
The Philippines is ranked #1 in the availability of knowledge-based jobs and workers worldwide, and ranked 4th among Asian nations in terms of labor quality, according to a survey conducted by the U.S. based Meta Group. Aside from the huge pool of productive, trainable and multi-skilled labor force, the country competes in the quality of its managers and information technology (IT) staff and engineers. The unique edge comes from a high level of proficiency in English. The Philippines is known to be the 3rd largest English-speaking country in the world.
Fueling the recent growth spurt in the outsourcing industry in the Philippines are more higher-end outsourcing services such as Web design, software development, and animation. Filipino animators do well in the global market for animation, which is fast growing due to the increasing popularity of animation as an entertainment medium not just for free and cable TV and the movies but also for computer games, as well as an advertising medium, a graphics medium for Internet content, and an information and educational tool.
Their services range from full 2D and 3D animation, including pre- and post-production services such as layouting, in-betweening, clean-up, digital background production through scanning and pre-compositing, color styling, special effects creation, and digital ink and paint application, to flash animation and web design, graphic and art design, mobile applications, and art and animation training. Major studios like Disney, Marvel, Warner Brothers and Hanna Barbera have offices in the Philippines. Some of the latest works of Filipino animators include scenes in Pixar's Finding Nemo, Paramount Picture's Barnyard and Twentieth Century-Fox's Anastasia.
(Various facts and figures come from published materials of Business Processing Association Philippines)
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