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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.2 - Activities of call centres
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 November 2015
Employment effect (start)
29 November 2015
Foreseen end date
Description
The customer support service company Sitel will open a new office in Porto and create 500 new jobs. There are several areas of recruitment: customer support; operations managers; supervisors; areas of training and quality; human resources; administration and finance.
The new centre had an investment of 3 million Euro and had the support of the Municipality of Porto.
Sitel is present in 21 countries but operates in more than 62 markets and offers services in 40 languages.
The company employs 1,200 persons in Portugal and has three communication centres (two in Lisbon and the third in Porto).
Sources
29 November 2015: Emprego pelo mundo
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Sitel, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 86051, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86051.
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