BSC Bitola is organizing IT Outsourcing event that will be held at April 11 at the Faculty of Technical Sciences Bitola from 12 o'clock. All interested are welcomed.

Guest speaker at this event will be Mr. Sander Yanssen, Outsourcing expert in the company ClockWork from Netherlands.

What should you know about outsourcing?

What is outsourcing?

Outsourcing is an activity in which one company or individual provides services for other company, that services usually he had produced with its own resources. Outsourcing is a trend that is mostly spread among information technologies, but in nowadays it is becoming more interesting for other industries also.

The Outsourcing might refer for big contracts where one company could take care of managing of the certain resources of other big companies, but it also refers to small contracts with including or engaging individuals for working on some projects.

Outsourcing is a new globalization result and one of the biggest trends that are changing world’s economy. According to the forecasting of John C. McCarthy, analyst in Forrester Research Inc. at least 3.3 million intellectual working places and salaries in amount of 136 billion USD will be transferred until 2015 from USA to the transition countries. Western Europe also is becoming part of this trend. Moving forces are digitalization and Internet.

The Outsourcing enables employment of high educated human resources that have good knowledge of foreign languages, working with computers and modern technologies. The Outsourcing helps for straightening and development of the local economies and Brain Drain curtailment.

Outsourcing in Macedonia

These global trends are present in Macedonia also, but the level of attraction of outsourcing contracts is very low than the possibilities that are offered in our country and very lower than the level that is present in some east and central European countries, members of the Former East block. There are many examples for attracting the outsourced projects in IT sector for programmers, but main tendency still is migration in western countries. That is why this project is initiated, aimed to contribute in creating self employment environment for the young educated people in the outsourcing field.

Project goal

The project goal is to promote self employment through creating entrepreneurial environment for student and unemployed at the international market for outsourced activities.

Concrete project objectives are: (1) to reduce the unemployment and (2) to curtailment Brain Drain, with promotion of the one of the leading possibilities for attractive jobs of young educated peoples in the developing countries: process of employment migration (jobs outsourcing) from western industrialized countries.

Unemployed engineers will be trained how to approach and how to become entrepreneurs at the international market for outsourced activities. The participants will be offered with practical exercises for retrieval and arrangements of outsourced jobs via Internet.

During this project students, unemployed and all other interested will be trained how to approach and to become entrepreneur at the international market for outsourced activities. Besides that the participants will have practical exercices for finding and arrangement of outsourced jobs via Internet. Trainings will start in May 2008.