5CA Exchange Project

Centrally situated Districts in Buenos Aires:
Cheap districts: Constitución, La Boca, San Telmo
Normal and cheap districts: Congreso, Caballito
Nice and more expensive districts: Palermo, Belgrano, Recoleta

Housing:
Youth hostel AR$ 300
Apartment: AR$ 300 - AR$ 500

Services (only if you live in an apartment):
Water: AR$ 30
Electricity: AR$ 30
Gas: AR$ 25

Transport:
One way ticket:
- subway: AR$ 0.70
- Bus: AR$ 0.80

Taxi: starting price AR$ 1.60. You can go from the Northern districts like Belgrano to the centre where the office is located for AR$ 10.

Food and drinks:
A meal at home: approximately AR$ 5.
A meal in a cheap restaurant: AR$ 10
A meal in a very nice restaurant: AR$ 50

A bottle of water in the street: AR$ 1
A beer in a bar: AR$ 3-6
A cocktail in a bar: AR$ 10

Leisure:
Cinema: from AR$ 4 to AR$ 12 (depending on the cinema and the day you go)
Theatre: AR$ 10 to 50

[When interested send your CV to Lise Avenel]

Ideal candidates are young, flexible and are excited about the idea to live and work in the great city of Buenos Aires for at least one year. In addition, you have a strong interest in IT, in particular with computer related hardware and software.

Trilingual call agents

Required profile:
- You are a native German / Dutch / Italian / French / Danish / Swedish speaker
- Besides your mother tongue, you speak two extra languages (fluent English, plus another language)
- You have experience with IT
- You are between 18-30 years old
- You are prepared to work in different shifts

N.B: We are currently particularly looking for Native Dutch speakers combined with perfect English and German knowledge.

Native English call agents with technical skills

Required profile:
We are looking for several agents with an excellent level of English and profound knowledge of:

- TCP/IP
- Networking
- Internet Security
- Proxy Devices

You are:
- from South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, UK, USA
- You are between 18-30 years old
- You are prepared to work in different shifts

We offer:
• Small but fast growing company with career perspective
• A multilingual professional environment with a mix of Argentinians and Europeans where you can train your languages on the phone and during the language courses we organise
• Agents work on different projects & clients making the work richer in contacts and contents
• A flat & horizontal organisation with a lot of responsibility on agent level, with few management layers, open door policy
• Opportunity to learn more about state-of-the-art technologies

Salary package to be discussed.

If this appeals to you then working at 5CA will be a great experience. We know, because we are having a great time here. Please send your CV in English to Lise Avenel. We look forward to hearing from you.

[When interested send your CV to Lise Avenel]

"We are pleased to give you the possibility to come and work in South America! Are you a young globe-trotter, who is interested to have one year abroad before taking the road to university? Or are you a curious person, interested in technology, with experience in call centre, who would like to take advantage of his/her experience to put it into practice in another country outside Europe? We are a young European and Argentinean team and we will be very happy to have you among us! Enjoy discovering and working in a new country, on the fascinating South-American continent… "

Steven van Halewijn: "My experience with 5CA Buenos Aires"

Two years before I was about to get my highschool diploma, I already knew that I didn`t want to go to college the very next year after getting my degree. I wanted to do something different, prebarably in an exotic country far away from books, teachers, tests and other obligations. After some orientation I got more and more interested in Latin America and especially Brazil but soon it appaered to be more difficult to find an interesting project in Brazil, like they exist in Peru, Ecuador and Costa Rica, for example: the possibility to combine (voluntary) work with also a language course. A few months after my exams and already looking desperately for a way to finance my trip I contacted a company called

5C Alliance, a growing customer care and telemarketing company which opened an office in Buenos Aires, Argentina a few months earlier. I was immediately interested and applied for the EA games project. This was a relatively easy project for somebody like me who used a PC to download music, write essays and to play a game from time to time. That way, 5C Alliance gave me the possibility to combine work and also to discover another language, culture and continent.
Finally, in November it was time for me to go to Buenos Aires, a city that surpassed my expectations. It is a mix of Paris, Madrid and New York with an abundance of culture and a fantastic night life. In addition the prices are very advantageous for Europeans whereby it is even possible for a young (ex-)student to regularly go out for dinner, visit the best nightclubs, take golf lessons or even flight lessons and make nice excursions to the carnival in Northern Argentina or Brazil, the delta north of Buenos Aires or Uruguay. All this combined with all the people I met on the job, while going out, making excursions and in the hostel where I lived made my stay in Buenos Aires unforgettable. What made my stay in Buenos Aires even more valuable is the fact that I didn’t only had a great time but in addition improved my English, my knowledge about simple PC functions and other IT products and started learning Spanish. Furthermore Buenos Aires proved to be the ideal location to discover South America. Patagonia, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil and Uruguay are all excellent accessible from the Argentine capital. So Buenos Aires and 5C Alliance make the perfect combination if you want to do something else for a while, increase your IT-knowledge, your language- and communication skills and you enjoy a good party.

[When interested send your CV to Lise Avenel]