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Yoshiyuki Tsunoda

NOSCO-PHILNOS Group Chairman

I would like to express my sincerest thanks for your kind patronage to our NOSCO Group.

I have been involved in the work of recruiting and dispatching Filipino manpower, mainly engineers and skilled workers for overseas plant engineering and construction projects mainly of major Japanese firms for 27 years and it has been 21 years since our company was established.

As you may be aware of, Filipinos have been considered to be highly educated, with a high level of English language proficiency close to that of a native speaker and has a cheerful disposition. Filipinos are also very friendly to the Japanese people and highly appreciate Japan's technological capability. Thus, based on my long experience dealing with the Filipinos, it is easier for Japanese to communicate with Filipino people compared with other Asian people if the Japanese can speak English to some extent.

Currently, overseas plant engineering and construction market are extremely active and the demand for Filipino engineers and skilled workers is also extremely growing for overseas projects. It seems that the situation four to five years ago in which the Philippines was simply a "buyer's market" has changed, with the Philippines shifting completely to being a "seller's market".

Whereas,we,NOSCO Group focuses on human resource development/recruitment mainly of Filipino engineers through various channels.
At a time when competition is tough, there is a risk of losing the best and brightest candidates to other companies if we are slow in making our decisions of hiring them. Therefore, we would like to encourage our clients to consider this point and expedite their hiring decisions.

During the Greater East Asian War, Japan has caused much infliction and damage to the Philippine people. Despite this, the Philippines have been one of the few countries in the postwar era that has never taken an anti-Japanese policy. Through my 27 years of work and business for recruiting and deploying Filipinos for overseas projects, I have come to interact with so many Filipinos and have never felt any hostility from them. This alone is enough for me, as one of Japanese citizen, to take my hat off for the Filipinos.

The Philippines is not an economically affluent country and its citizens are still poor. Toward this end, it is the desire of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority(PEZA) that Japanese firms give more investment to the Philippines.

Finally, with much gratitude to the Filipino people, I would like to continuously devote myself in this work of recruiting Filipinos for overseas projects of Japanese firms.

 


Yoshiyuki Tsunoda

On propitious day April 2008