BPO hiring profile and the Finishing School programme
- Workforce, education and talent
- The labor force, in numbers
- Audited
The profile the BPO sector predominantly hires is a customer-service agent with B1 English, basic office software skills and, preferably, sales experience (Forbes Centroamérica, December 2024). To feed that pipeline, companies in the sector created the Finishing School program with AGEXPORT in 2015, which placed more than 2,500 people in jobs in its first 24 months; in 2018 the sector set a target of training 30,000 young people a year in basic English, 15,000 in intensive intermediate and 1,500 in English plus advanced technical skills (AGEXPORT Hoy). The size of the employable B2+ pool is not public: AGEXPORT does not publish it and its sector website blocks automated access; the contact point is AGEXPORT's Contact Center & BPO Commission.
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Figures
- Predominant profile hired by BPO
- customer service agent, B1 English, basic office software, sales experience preferred
- Finishing School placements
- more than 2,500 people in 24 months
- Sector's annual training target
- 30,000 basic English; 15,000 intermediate-intensive; 1,500 English + advanced technical
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