50,000 IT Workers Needed for May 2010 Polls

The Commission on Election (COMELEC) has announced that they intend to hire as much as 50,000 information technology (IT) worker to aid in the conduct of the automated elections in May 2010.

Acting as technical support staff during the first automated elections in the country, these IT workers will be working for Smartmatic - Total Information Management (TIM), which won the contract for the country’s first national automated election.

According to COMELEC Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal, these workers will help in the operation and maintenance of the 82,000 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines that will be used in the Presidential election due next year.

Some of these workers will de deployed in the poling precincts while other will be part of Smartmatic-TIM’s call center to answer queries from voters and on-site personnel.

Aside from this, the COMELEC, in coordination with the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), will train 500 IT experts to teach the members of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) on how to use the PCOS. The COMELEC also intends to hire at least one IT expert per municipality or city to supervise the experts hired by Smartmatic-TIM.

Smartmatic-TIM Regional Manager Bonifacio Belen said that they have developed a method to hire and train the workers for the 2010 polls. They will make sure that the specialists they will hire are non partisan and will not be deployed in their home areas and have no connection to any candidate in their assigned polling precinct. “There is no shortage of patriotic and IT-savvy Filipinos who want to be part of history,” Mr. Belen added.

All IT workers that will be hired by COMELEC and Smartmatic-TIM will have to be accredited by the DOST.

Interested applicants may contact three recruitment agencies designated by Smartmatic-TIM:

Placewell International Service Corp.
Address: 2nd Flr., Suite 217 Aurora Plaza Bldg., Arquiza St. cor. J. Bocobo St., Ermita, Manila
Telephone Nos.: (632) 526-7317, 526-4838, 521-5067
Fax No. : (632) 521-5059
Mobile No.: (63919) 867-6378
Email Address : pisco@info.com.ph
Website: http://www.placewellinternational.com

Ventureslink International, Inc.
Address: 3F Astron Bldg 102 E. Rodriguez Ave. Jr., Pasig City
Telephone Nos.: (632) 5714253
Fax No. : (632) 5714252

Manila Resource Development Corporation
Address : Concept Building 3450 Florida St., Makati City
Phone : (632) 556-7945, 832-0059, 556-7015
Fax : (632) 831-0491, 551-5165
Email : manred@pldtdsl.net, manred_corp@yahoo.com
Website: www.manredphilippines.com

Trabaho.com thanks its following sources:

Alave, Kristine L., Philippine Daily Inquirer. Wanted: 50,000 techies to man poll machines. (Posted November 11, 2009). Retrieved November 16, 2009 from
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Clapano, Jose Rodel with Sheila Crisostomo, The Philippine Star. Comelec vows fraud-free automated elections (Posted November 11, 2009). Retrieved November 16, 2009 from
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=522299&publicationSubCategoryId=63

Surbano, Marie, The Daily Tribune. Erap ‘first presidential bet’ as automated voter. (Posted November 11, 2009) Retrieved November 16, 2009 from
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