Call centre ahead of new jobs schedule

AN Indian-owned call centre company set up in Northern Ireland a year ago is well ahead of schedule in creating 1,000 jobs.

Firstsource set up its first base in Belfast last August and another in Derry in December promising to deliver the jobs total in 2008.

“We are well ahead of schedule with 950 jobs created so far,” said Sean Canning, Firstsource’s British operations director as the company celebrated its first anniversary in Belfast.