As it celebrates its first anniversary, Midas Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) has hired around 95 Lindeners and is aiming to take on around 150 more.
This was disclosed yesterday in a press release from the Ministry of Finance.
Last October, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the Guyana Office for Investment (G-Invest) and Midas BPO Inc. for the expansion of the BPO to the mining town of Linden. Midas BPO had initially commenced its operations in Georgetown.
Last year, during Midas BPO’s launch in Linden, a large number of young persons from the town had flocked the venue hoping to land a job at the Centre. On Wednesday, a job fair opened at the Centre for the recruitment of an additional 150 persons. The job-fair continued yesterday during the Anniversary celebrations.
Senior Finance Minister Dr. Ashni K. Singh yesterday delivered the feature address during the anniversary ceremony in Linden. The release said that Singh lauded Malcolm Sobers on the Call Centre’s employment of 70 persons as well as an additional 25 who were hired on the spot when Midas BPO’s job fair began on Wednesday. By next year it is expected that 250 Lindeners will be employed at the Centre while Sobers also announced that Midas will be soon putting in place daycare facilities to accommodate young children of staffers.
“You now have 100 Linden families with an income. Where will they spend this income? Right here in Linden,” the Minister asserted.
He added: “This Call Centre is being managed by a young Guyanese entrepreneur. You cannot say with one side of your mouth that you support young Guyanese entrepreneurs, we want young Guyanese business leaders to emerge, how much you love Guyanese entrepreneurs and on the other side of your mouth undermining and speaking disrespectfully of what this young Guyanese entrepreneur is doing in Guyana. And let me tell you this, there is no business that is not going to go through some periods of challenges”.
The release said that Sobers accumulated approximately 20 years of experience in the Call Centre industry both in Guyana and Belize. He started out his career as an employee in a Call Centre himself.
While delivering remarks yesterday during the anniversary celebration, Sobers said that his mission is to provide and give back to the Region and to be the largest private sector employer in Linden, the release said.
It added that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government since its assumption to office in August 2020 has worked aggressively to promote the employment of persons and more than 1,200 jobs have been created in the BPO industry to date.
