Those who follow my blog are aware that I have a series of articles
titled “How to find work in Jamaica at
Call Centers” in which I drop news focusing almost exclusively on the Call
Center World, a World that I like to call my own having lived in it for almost
three (3) years.
My blog posts thus chronicles not only my experiences by give advices on
how to escape this gilded cage that is the Call Center World, starting with the
first in the series entitled “How
to find work in Jamaica at Call Centers - Job Agencies, Applications with
Proposals and Reading the Sunday Gleaner for Fast and the Furious 6 Tips and
Tricks”. This first article explained how I escaped, Ender’s Game
Style.
I began doing this as I realized that strangely albeit many Millennials
(ages 18-28) work in this field, very few use their spare time to chronicles
the History of Call Centers or even their experiences. One would think that
with so many toting smartphones, Tablets and Laptops, starting a Blog or a
website to tell their stories in Words, Pictures and Videos would have been an
easy distraction.
Well, I don’t know about the others…but this is my story!
AREL went Bust –Drawing for the
Deeper Magic from Before the Dawn of Time
Since then I’ve fallen on hard times having most my job at AREL Jamaica
Limited a Biomedical Field Engineer, a misnomer as it doesn’t pay JA$200,000 a
month, a typical Engineer’s salary in Jamaica but merely a Technician’s salary
of JA$700 per hours, which works out to be about JA$100,000 per month. Typical
Jamaican company; fancy title yet no salary to back it up!
This misfortune is a way of life however, as I’m a Telecoms Engineer and
I have no mechanical knack, as my field doesn’t even use hand tools. This move has, however, necessitated that I
rediscover this wisdom from the very first article once more and find a job in
the Call Center World or lower level Work to survive until I can find a Job in
the Telecoms Engineering Field again. Treading Water basically, not allowing
the current situation to drown me, Mariner’s wisdom taught to me by my parents
in Milk River, Clarendon on the south coast close to the sea.
Thus aside from advice, all of which you can find via Googling the phrase
“How to find work in Jamaica at Call
Centers”, I also do articles on Call Center work as it pops up, giving info
on the company and where to apply.
Such as my latest article on about Rochester, New York based Sutherland Global Services, the
Call Center that’s based on the UWI (University of the West Indies), Mona
Campus as explained in my blog article
entitled “How
to find work in Jamaica at Call Centers - Sutherland Global Service is now
hiring Full-Time Customer Care Consultants to work at the Mona Technology Park
as Christmas draws nigh”.
Jobs Galore for Graduates – Moonlighting on a Call
Center Salary and Hunt for your Dream Job
Basically for
University Graduates (I’m the class of 2009, UWI!) this idea of working for
less than the dream salary of US$100,000 per month after doing your Degree and
needing to pay off students loan and parents may seem a hard pill to swallow. Heck,
even while on campus, with all those tech-toys that most College students tote about,
making money from stock Photography is also another avenue to a successful
career as explained in my blog article entitled “How Jamaicans can make money
from Stock Photography – Moneymaking from taking photos of the everyday Mundane”, albeit unrelated to your
original Degree!
But with Call
Centers spring up like poppies in Jamaica and multiple opportunity to make
money on your own time as detailed in my blog article
entitled “How
Jamaicans can Legally make US Dollars as Freelance worker Online - Jamaican
Flexworking to make money from the Internet”, you are really kidding
yourself if you’re unwilling to tread water or even build your own boat awhile
until your ship comes along to rescue you!
After all, many
of the courses and even your CXC’s that make up your Degree may be separate
Skill for employment. Even knowing how to post on Social Media as a
Ghostwriter, set up a blog or fixing computers as a hobby can make you revenue
once you can place advertisements in the Sunday Gleaner or on Social Media.
So here’s an
expansion of my hand list of places from my very first article from which you
can find places to send resumes and get employed if you have no links:
1.
SkillPages Website –
A listing of skills in Jamaica needing persons to fill them.
2.
I Need A
Job – a Facebook Page that lists Employment opportunities in Jamaica in all
fields
4.
Go-Jamaica Jobsmart
– the online version of the Jamaica Classified from the Sunday Gleaner
5.
Caribbean
Jobs Jamaica – a Caribbean wide based headhunters for employment
6.
Career
Jamaica – a Twitter feed listing new jobs as they pop up. Worth joining
Twitter
7.
Post an Advertisement in The Sunday Gleaner Classifieds under “Employment
Wanted”, making sure you put contact phone number and email
Combined with the advice from my original article that started from the
series entitled “How
to find work in Jamaica at Call Centers - Job Agencies, Applications with
Proposals and Reading the Sunday Gleaner for Fast and the Furious 6 Tips and
Tricks” , you job hunt should land you a job in less than three (3)
months, a year at most. Best of all, you don’t have to resort to using “links”;
time will achieve the Deeper Magic from Before the Dawn of Time and get you
that dream job.
Once you’ve done your time treading water in the Call Center world and
you follow the above as well as my blog, you’ll always be in the know as it
relates to the latest jobs available in Jamaica.
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