{"id":20262,"date":"2015-09-30T12:09:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T04:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=20262"},"modified":"2015-09-30T12:10:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T04:10:49","slug":"psia-mercer-deal-to-improve-software-industrys-talent-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2015\/09\/30\/psia-mercer-deal-to-improve-software-industrys-talent-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"PSIA-Mercer deal aims to improve software industry&#8217;s talent pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) and Mercer have signed an agreement to have Mercer become PSIA\u2019s consulting partner for talent initiatives in the technology industry in the Philippines. This partnership forms part of PSIA\u2019s vision to drive innovation in the Philippine software products and services industry and increase its global market share.<\/p>\n<p>As a strategic, consulting partner, Mercer will help PSIA develop greater insight into the people-related issues crucial to enhancing the Philippine Software Industry.<\/p>\n<p>Under the aegis of this partnership, Mercer will undertake in-depth quarterly talent research and work with PSIA\u2019s more than 146 member companies in developing actionable insights to improve human resources in the IT and Software Development industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very excited and proud to partner with PSIA and look forward to bringing Mercer\u2019s market-leading expertise in talent consulting to bear in the rapidly-evolving Philippine software industry,\u201d said Ms. Godelieve Van Dooren, Mercer\u2019s Market Business Leader ASEAN, Information Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PSIA is delighted to have Mercer come on board as our consulting partner. This partnership will be a catalyst for growth and we are always looking for ways to bring forth world-class research to our member companies, to help them expand into global markets. This partnership is another positive step in that direction,&#8221; said Mr. Jonathan D. De Luzuriaga, President of the PSIA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) and Mercer have signed an agreement to have Mercer become PSIA\u2019s consulting partner for talent initiatives in the technology industry in the Philippines. This partnership forms part of PSIA\u2019s vision to drive innovation in the Philippine software products and services industry and increase its global market share. As a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2783,3566,318,640],"class_list":["post-20262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-human-capital-management","tag-mercer","tag-philippine-software-industry-association","tag-software-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}