November, 2008 - Skelia, an international services company headquartered in Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, announces a unique business partnership with The Future Alliance,  executive and direct search organisation with major presence in Belgium.

Bringing top-class human resources experience to Skelia

Skelia provides people capacity outsourcing to nearshore eastern countries.  Skelia's remote services are hosted in Service Centres, having recently established its first Ukrainian Service Centre in Lviv, capital of Western-Ukraine. Recruiting and selection of high-quality resources is core to Skelia’s business success.

 “Our new partnership with The Future Alliance brings us leading experience and best practices in the field of recruitment, selection and retention which we will deploy in our Ukrainian operations. Additionally, Skelia will be able to benefit from the regional office infrastructures in Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent of The Future Alliance for our customer meetings” says Patrik Vandewalle, co-founder and CEO of Skelia.

The Future Alliance gets access to the new markets

Skelia will share with The Future Alliance its solid know-how and experience on the Ukrainian labour market and nearshore markets in general.

Geert Fiers, managing partner of The Future Alliance adds “Despite the global economic down-turn at this moment, we continue to expect a labour shortage in Belgium over the coming years. Skelia will bring us a deep understanding of the nearshore labour market and enables us to access an important pool of highly qualified employees for our local customers in Belgium.”

About The Future Alliance

The Future Alliance/Fiers & De Mey is an executive and direct search organisation founded in 1992, having its offices in Brussels (Avenue Louise), Antwerp (Louiza Marialei) and Ghent (Prinses Clementinalaan).  The Future Alliance linked to the IESF organisation (International Executive Search Federation) as its exclusive partner for Belgium.

The Future Alliance offers executive search & assessment further completed with outsourcing of recruitment and various HR-projects. Its multidisciplinary team consists of 20 enthusiastic and motivated professionals with a very divers background and experience situated in both the business world and in consultancy.

More info can be found at : www.thefuturealliance.com

About Skelia

Skelia is a private international services company headquartered in Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, offering IT and business capacity outsourcing to near shore eastern countries. Skelia extends enterprises with dedicated, skilled resources in nearshore locations achieving major cost efficiencies.

More info can be found at : www.skelia.com