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BCP Jobs: Success Story
Our candidate was hired as an AVP responsible for BCP at an insurance company in Taipei, and started work on Monday, 26 November. He had a strong engineering background and had worked in semiconductor fab for over 8 years. He was recruited through Staff on Standby, a partnership of Forbes Calamity Prevention, Singapore and BC Management, USA.
BCP Jobs: Opening in Hong Kong
We are recruiting a Senior Business Resiliency Manager for Treasury & Security Services for an American investment bank. Asia region responsibility, Mandarin and/or Cantonese speaker preferred. Click here, then enter Job Number "1684" in "Search Open Jobs. " To apply, contact Ms. Cheyene Haase.
BCP Jobs: Contractor in Singapore
We are recruiting a contract BC Manager for a European bank. Responsibility for updating, testing and maintaining plans for all Singapore business units. You will be employed by Forbes Calamity Prevention, deployed at the client site for about six (6) months. To apply, register at "Find A Job" at Staff on Standby (if you have not already done so) and send your c.v. by email to Nathaniel Forbes.
New DRII representatives in Asia face an uphill climb, for these reasons:
- They must try to rehabilitate DRII's tarnished reputation in Asia with limited marketing budgets, and without the benefit of DRI Asia's mailing list, which is now being used to promote a competing, Asian BCP certification program from the BCM Institute.
- They each have small target markets. Asia (including India, China and Japan) has 3.7 billion people. Singapore, however, has roughly the population of Alabama (population 4.5 million). Malaysia has the population of Texas (population 23 million), but no effective requirements for companies to prepare and test business continuity plans, and therefore little demand for trained BCP professionals. And the big challenge in China (population 1.3 billion) is crippling theft of intellectual capital like DRII's training materials, which get photocopied and ripped-off literally overnight.
- They have competition. The Business Continuity Institute (BCI), DRII's U.K.-based competitor in professional certification, for example, has just launched an "Accredited Training" program in Asia that will compete directly with DRII's training for students - and instructors. And the BCM Institute is very aggressive in India and China.
- DRII isn't paying attention to Southeast Asia (population 600 million). According to an officer, DRII has been "totally overwhelmed with Latin America (population 550 million), China and Japan (population 127 million)- not to mention Canada (population 33 million)." I know two (2) highly-qualified, motivated people in Singapore who say they contacted DRII months ago (one at my suggestion) to express interest in representing DRII in Asia. Neither of them received any reply. DRII really must be overwhelmed.
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BCP Jobs: Writer, English Language
Forbes Calamity Prevention needs a top-flight writer of English. We're hoping to develop relationships with a contractor with whom to have a long-term arrangement. Not full-time, but regular part-time. What we need written: business continuity plans, studies and reports for clients, project proposal narratives, exercise summaries and recommendations. If you can also contribute items to our newsletter and blogs, swell! Some demonstrated interest in business continuity, crisis management or emergency response would be a selling point.
How well you write English is the key criterion; our director, Nathaniel Forbes, is American, is a writer, has been a journalist and was an English major at university. He's the judge. Where you are located is not important; we're accustomed to working online across time zones, so you can work at home in Oklahoma or on the beach in Bali. For this job, dressing for success may mean shorts and flip-flops. Assignment: send something captivating to Nathaniel Forbes. Need inspiration? Read some of Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. Ineffably lyrical prose.
Outsource Your BCP Work in Asia
Need help but can't afford a full-time BCP professional? We outsource qualified BCP professionals for as little as one (1) day or two (2) days per week on contract. Read our Capabilty Statement with case studies of our satisfied clients over 12 years. Nathaniel Forbes at nforbes@calamity.com.sg, or call +65 6324-3091 in Singapore (12 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Time, 8 hours ahead of London).
Need help? In Singapore, call: +65 6324-3091 Fax: +65 6324-3093
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