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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities 82 - Office administrative, office support and other business support activities
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
1 February 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2014
Foreseen end date
31 December 2014
Description
OKIN BPO, a company specialized in business process outsourcing, is to hire 200 additional employees at its Ostrava delivery centre in 2014. The company is looking for university and secondary school graduates with good knowledge of foreign languages.
The job creation is due to a new contract with the multinational Verizon Enterprise Solutions, for which OKIN had already expanded its delivery centre in Ostrava in 2013, creating 300 jobs.
OKIN GROUP is the leading provider of support services for businesses in Central and Eastern Europe. It is operating in the Czech market since 1993, where it employs over 700 staff today. In total, the company employs about 1,500 staff in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and Serbia.
Sources
1 February 2014: Právo
Citation
Eurofound (2014), OKIN BPO, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 76632, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76632.
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