• Interested applicants may participate via the company’s social networks. 
• New available positions are for customer service agent openings. 

Monday, February 15, 2021. San José, Costa Rica. Between March and June 2021, Fujitsu will expand its Costa Rican operations with 60 new jobs.

• Costa Ricans are part of the 8.4% of the global population with the best democracies.

How has the pandemic affected democracy in 165 countries? The Economist Intelligence Unit posed this question in its 13th edition of the Democracy Index (2020). In Costa Rica, the answer was positive, being 2020 the year with the best score: 8.16 on a scale of 1 to 10.

• The Wall Street Journal points out to Costa Rica as an alternative for homeschooling surrounded by the country's exuberant nature. 
• Costa Rica has been welcoming high-schoolers back for study abroad programs, tweaked for the Covid era. After Zoom classes, playtime ensues.

*Article originally published by The Wall Street Journal by Donna Bulseco: https://on.wsj.com/3oITywA 

The COVID-19 pandemic created instability in different ways worldwide and exports was one of them. Even so, Costa Rica's exports of goods grew 1.9% in 2020 reaching a historic record of US $11,683 million: $214 million more than 2019. 

• The Women in Engineering Projects in Community Service is led by CINDE with the Arizona State University, the United States Embassy in Costa Rica, and the Ministry of Education.
• Seventy-eight students and eight teachers were part of the pilot plan in zones like Sixaola, Nicoya, Grecia, and Turrialba.

San José, Costa Rica. January 26, 2021. By 2030, the world will have a greater demand for knowledge skills such as creativity, critical thinking, decision-making, and complex data processing; this need will increase 19% in the United States and 14% in Europe, according to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute.

• The company will produce dehydrated pineapple in the Caribbean side of Costa Rica (GMA) to export it to Mexico.
• Instantia invested US$350,000 in the last month and a half.

San José, Costa Rica. January 21, 2021. The multinational company in the light manufacturing and food industry sector, Instantia, will establish a new plant in Roxana de Pococí, at the Caribbean side of Costa Rica, where it will produce dehydrated pineapple for export.

*Article originally published at https://bit.ly/2XZh1Pm / Partner content from CINDE

• Located in Escazú, the company will open its offices this month and recruit over 35 collaborators through the first semester. 
• Synter invested more than US$250,000 in the initial stage. 

January 19, 2021. San José, Costa Rica. Synter Resource Group, LLC, based in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A., is North America’s largest, dedicated provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) services to the transportation and logistics industries. The company chose Escazú, Costa Rica, to open its first operations in Latin America. 

• Article originally published by Investment Monitor Magazine.
• Business and investment leaders discuss how Costa Rica stands to be a primary destination for FDI that places higher value on sustainability and well-being in the wake of Covid-19.

By prompting significant focus on the environment and personal well-being, the Covid-19 pandemic has also brought into sharp relief the role of the investment community in supporting a sustainable recovery.

• Global Software Company to Hire Sales Talent to Propel Long-Term Regional Growth

San Jose, Costa Rica, Dec. 16, 2020 – San Francisco Bay Area-based software company Autodesk, Inc.(NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced plans to open a Costa Rica-based office in support of business across the Americas.