How to find work in Jamaica at Call Centers - How to use a Call Center to Hunt for your Dream Job

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

3.      Splash Jamaica - a Caribbean wide based headhunters for employment

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.