Move Your Job Offshore Now – Before it moves offshore without you …

A recent 23rd June 2008 article in InfoWorld entitled ‘Offshore yourself: Making the move to San José’ gives you a crystal clear idea of what’s happening these days in offshore outsourcing….

On their offshoring yourself map, there is only one pin strategically placed in the entire Central America area, that one pin is in San Jose, Costa Rica.

“Peter Harrison, CEO of GlobalLogic, a product development company, describes San José as an outdoor paradise that has everything California has times 10.”

“Costa Rica has a long, established reputation for doing good IT work, and the locals have excellent English skills relative to other Latin American countries. ”

Costa Rica is a great place to go on vacation and it has also become a great place for business with dozens of large US companies setting up operations here.

One of the latest companies to move here is ACE Global who is “establishing an International Call Center in Costa Rica, specializing in Collections and Customer Service.”

Like most US companies, their website says nothing about their offshore operations (I wonder why?) and their full page advertisement in the country’s largest newspaper – La Nacion – is advertising for a lot of people:

1. Director of Collections Operations
2. Collections Managers & Supervisors
3. Collection Agents
4. Quality Assurance Manager
5. Quality Assurance Agents
6. Trainers in Collections & Customer Service
7. IT Manager
8. IT Support Staff
9. HR Manager
10. Recruiters
11. Support Staff
12. Receptionist
13. Accounting/Financial Manager
14. Payroll Administration

This is great for business in Costa Rica but clearly not good for our American friends seeing more, fairly well paid jobs moving offshore.

Do you remember the days not so long ago, when the powers that be told us that with all this wonderful technology, soon we would all have so much leisure time that we would probably only be working a three day week…?

You didn’t believe that did you?

Alan S. Blinder of Princeton University believes that “Contrary to conventional wisdom, the more offshorable occupations are not low-end jobs,” and “somewhere between 22% and 29% of all U.S. jobs are or will be potentially offshorable within a decade or two.”

Is your job one of the “22% and 29% of all U.S. jobs” that “are or will be potentially offshorable within a decade or two?”

Now not only have we continued to see more and more jobs moved offshore but when you fall behind on your payments, the people that telephone you at all hours to try and collect the money you owe them, may well be calling you from Costa Rica!

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Written by Scott Oliver, author of How To Buy Costa Rica Real Estate Without Losing Your Camisa and Costa Rica’s Guide To Making Money Offshore.

Andrew Makarik

to@welovecostarica.com

Andrew Makarik is the main editor of WeLoveCostaRica, a fan of this sunny country. He is also a loving husband and a has a lovely daughter. By being a devoted family man and the biggest Costa Rica fan, he wants to make more people feel at home there. WeLoveCostaRica unites people and helps them find new home or a new travel destination. This website is a friendly community where everyone can find not only information, but also new friends and travel pals. Andrew is also passionate about IT and programming, so he himself maintains a friendly atmosphere in this cozy environment of WeLoveCostaRica.com.