Training: A Key Ingredient in Offshoring Development
14 July 2006
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The official presentation of offshoring and information technology jobs took place yesterday. The OFPPT training center, designed to develop these skills, is located in Bouskoura, near the Casashore project.
The goal is clear: to equip future service export companies, which will be based in Nearshore Park, with the necessary skills to launch their operations. This is in line with the Emergence Program…
The launch of the Casablanca megaproject was officially initiated on December 22, 2005, by the country's highest authority.
With an investment budget of over 200 million dollars, this project is expected to contribute nearly 500 million dollars to the GDP and trade balance by 2015. The geographical choice is not accidental; the business park dedicated to offshoring activities, located on a 53-hectare plateau, will connect the city to Mohammed V airport. Nearshore Park will offer 250,000 m2 of office and commercial space. Morocco Offshoring is the driving force behind the Emergence Program.
However, to attract investors, the "offshorable" sectors analyzed must have adequate human resources to achieve competitiveness levels that rival those of other competing countries, such as India (Hyderabad, Mumbai, and New Delhi). Currently, twelve promising niches have been targeted: three sectors in banking and insurance, six in administrative services (accounting and finance, customer service beyond call centers, payroll management, personnel administration), and three in IT (help desk, application management, and infrastructure management).
"Specifically, the training at the new OFPPT site will be for bac +2 and bac +4 profiles, with an annual output of 40,000 to 50,000 target profiles," announced officials.
To encourage companies to invest in training, courses offered by the center will be subsidized up to 50,000 DH per employee over three years.
The goal is for the national offshoring training catalog to include 20,000 to 25,000 qualifying training courses by 2009.
In the shorter term, the goal is to provide adequate human resources to the first export companies wishing to establish themselves in these sectors by the second half of 2007. The French firm Cap Gemini, which announced its establishment in this business center a few days ago, has already chosen the OFPPT complex as its base.
While waiting for its installation in the Casa Near Shore premises, the renowned consulting firm will begin its first actions to develop offshoring services in the banking and IT sectors.
Meanwhile, the Moroccan government has signed a partnership agreement with the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers (CNAM). The international dimension of this French public institution is well-established.
Operating in training, technological research and innovation, and the dissemination of scientific and technical culture, the training operator has established partnerships in 36 countries, including Morocco, notably through Iscae, Hassan II University, and Cadi Ayyad University… Strengthening this partnership for training in these specific sectors is highly beneficial. To achieve this, a CNAM representation in Morocco is planned. Specifically, the various project owners are committed to training some 100,000 graduates with bac +2, bac +4, and engineering school levels by 2015, including 8,000 Spanish speakers… The stakes are high. It involves the retraining of a large proportion of graduates who have not found jobs.
In part, this large-scale project should compensate for the lack of guidance for young high school graduates who enter university without any idea of the possible career paths after such academic education.
In other words, matching training with employment must be the top priority.
This is also what investors expect.
This ingredient is essential for their competitiveness.
To further encourage investment, incentive measures have also been put in place. "Favorable taxation and government aid will reduce operating costs and offer exit costs 50% to 60% lower than in Europe," officials involved in this project assure.
Government policy on rental and telecom prices aims to benefit investors who have chosen to establish themselves within this vast project. The only problem is that Sidi Maârouf entrepreneurs are already struggling to hide their bitterness.
Their exclusion from these incentive benefits seems unjustified, given their contribution to national economic growth.
The challenge for all the businesses that will be located in Casashore is therefore significant…
LeMatin.ma
The goal is clear: to equip future service export companies, which will be based in Nearshore Park, with the necessary skills to launch their operations. This is in line with the Emergence Program…
The launch of the Casablanca megaproject was officially initiated on December 22, 2005, by the country's highest authority.
With an investment budget of over 200 million dollars, this project is expected to contribute nearly 500 million dollars to the GDP and trade balance by 2015. The geographical choice is not accidental; the business park dedicated to offshoring activities, located on a 53-hectare plateau, will connect the city to Mohammed V airport. Nearshore Park will offer 250,000 m2 of office and commercial space. Morocco Offshoring is the driving force behind the Emergence Program.
However, to attract investors, the "offshorable" sectors analyzed must have adequate human resources to achieve competitiveness levels that rival those of other competing countries, such as India (Hyderabad, Mumbai, and New Delhi). Currently, twelve promising niches have been targeted: three sectors in banking and insurance, six in administrative services (accounting and finance, customer service beyond call centers, payroll management, personnel administration), and three in IT (help desk, application management, and infrastructure management).
"Specifically, the training at the new OFPPT site will be for bac +2 and bac +4 profiles, with an annual output of 40,000 to 50,000 target profiles," announced officials.
To encourage companies to invest in training, courses offered by the center will be subsidized up to 50,000 DH per employee over three years.
The goal is for the national offshoring training catalog to include 20,000 to 25,000 qualifying training courses by 2009.
In the shorter term, the goal is to provide adequate human resources to the first export companies wishing to establish themselves in these sectors by the second half of 2007. The French firm Cap Gemini, which announced its establishment in this business center a few days ago, has already chosen the OFPPT complex as its base.
While waiting for its installation in the Casa Near Shore premises, the renowned consulting firm will begin its first actions to develop offshoring services in the banking and IT sectors.
Meanwhile, the Moroccan government has signed a partnership agreement with the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers (CNAM). The international dimension of this French public institution is well-established.
Operating in training, technological research and innovation, and the dissemination of scientific and technical culture, the training operator has established partnerships in 36 countries, including Morocco, notably through Iscae, Hassan II University, and Cadi Ayyad University… Strengthening this partnership for training in these specific sectors is highly beneficial. To achieve this, a CNAM representation in Morocco is planned. Specifically, the various project owners are committed to training some 100,000 graduates with bac +2, bac +4, and engineering school levels by 2015, including 8,000 Spanish speakers… The stakes are high. It involves the retraining of a large proportion of graduates who have not found jobs.
In part, this large-scale project should compensate for the lack of guidance for young high school graduates who enter university without any idea of the possible career paths after such academic education.
In other words, matching training with employment must be the top priority.
This is also what investors expect.
This ingredient is essential for their competitiveness.
To further encourage investment, incentive measures have also been put in place. "Favorable taxation and government aid will reduce operating costs and offer exit costs 50% to 60% lower than in Europe," officials involved in this project assure.
Government policy on rental and telecom prices aims to benefit investors who have chosen to establish themselves within this vast project. The only problem is that Sidi Maârouf entrepreneurs are already struggling to hide their bitterness.
Their exclusion from these incentive benefits seems unjustified, given their contribution to national economic growth.
The challenge for all the businesses that will be located in Casashore is therefore significant…
LeMatin.ma
