Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Some 27 firms looking to hire 3,500 bilingual people will man booths at a free job fair Friday through Sunday in the National Center of Culture (CENAC) in downtown San José.
The fair, hosted by the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE), will feature call centers, medical device companies and firms that specialize in Web design, marketing, publicity and software development.
Companies from Amazon.com to Procter & Gamble will send recruiters looking for engineers, accountants, programmers, multimedia and graphic designers, translators and people with finance backgrounds. All applicants should speak two or more languages.
Firms will not accept printed resumes, but applicants can apply online at a computer cluster at the fair. They can also bring their resumes on a flash drive or disk.
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
AvVenta Worldwide, the global leader in digital production and interactive services, will be offering 1.500 jobs in Costa Rica. Based in Plaza Bratsi, in Heredia, AvVenta is going ahead with its expansion in Costa Rica after getting a cash infusion of us$20 million dollars from TZP Group, in its acquisition of a minority state in AvVenta.
TZP now owns between 30% and 50% of AvVenta, according to managing partner Sam Katz.
AvVenta outsources digital marketing for companies like Yahoo Inc., Oreo, Blackberry, Dell Inc., Apple Inc. and Capri Sun. Katz said the company programs things like the car ads on Yahoo or 3-dimensional views of trucks on General Motor Corp.’s Web site. It can save companies 50% to 70% on the cost of in-house advertising, he said.
Charleston, S.C.- based avVenta had about $20 million in revenue last year, and is doubling each year, according to Katz. The company has around 550 employees.
Katz touted the strengths of Costa Rica as a place to do business, saying it has a “phenomenal” education system. The company works closely with the government to train students for very specialized programming processes, and plans to hire around 300 to 500 new employees this year, adding around 20 per month.
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