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By Staff Report
Apr. 3, 2007
Six years ago,
Today, Argentina is recovering from the economic disaster that pushed it to the brink of ruin, and the South American nation’s employment base is quickly making up for lost time. Young, energetic workers are drawing the attention of multinational companies seeking an educated workforce at a relatively reasonable price. And it appears
Many of the labor market’s newest entrants were influenced by
“It made them learn that they need experience and they need to be prepared for the changing world of work,” said Jorgelina Calvente, director of corporate communications for Manpower South America, in an interview at the company’s
The experience drove home the importance of education, as well as the need to learn English.
“We’d better integrate ourselves with the rest of the world, or this is it for us,” says Marina Santangelo, a 22-year-old staffer at Next Level, a company that markets Intel products. “People who speak English, people who have an open view of the world, can get better jobs here.”
It also helps that public universities in
“I see
In 2003, Intel turned to
“
With government help, Intel established the
“All the added value is the mind,” says Daniel Luaces, manager of professional services at Manpower. “The most important part of the IT business is the human resources.”
It also benefits from being in roughly the same time zones as the
“There’s greater freedom by the employer to move people around, cross-train them and dismiss them if they’re not the best,” Coleman says.
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