Business Process Outsourcing, commonly known as BPO, is becoming increasingly popular, especially in the Asia-pacific region including Southeast Asia. The BPO market is rapidly growing because of the increased adoption of outsourcing by different organizations as part of cutting costs and improving their efficiency. With the development of digital technologies like AI, Machine Learning, automation and so forth, there is an increased expectation of the BPO market to boom in the SEA region. As per a recent study, revenue for the Asia-Pacific BPO is expected to surpass US $72.38 billion (about $220 per person in the US) in 2023. This further depicts the hidden potential of the BPO industry.
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Organizations worldwide are looking to accelerate their hiring process without compromising talent quality. However, the manual recruitment process for top-notch IT talent is time-consuming, expensive, lacks real-time data, is prone to human error, and lacks in-depth insights. Additionally, the Great Resignation and rampant IT layoffs have not made things easy and accelerated the adoption of virtual recruiting technologies. Recruiters are tasked with making smart, cost-effective hiring decisions with fewer resources.
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In a nutshell, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is the delegation of one or more IT-intensive business processes to an external provider. This external provider owns, administrates and manages the selected processes based on defined and measurable performance metrics. This makes BPO functions critical to an organization’s operational success.
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