Opportunities for Russian speaking jobs in Prague have risen dramatically over the past few years with the ongoing expansion of SSCs in the Czech Republic. The SSC acronym which stands for Shared Service Centres are not what many people imagine them to be. SSCs are not BPOs (business process outsourcing, more on that later) but are actually a centralised location for the back-office functions of its multinational owner. Rather than having Russian speaking jobs dotted across the globe, companies (think Johnson & Johnson, ABInBev, Expedia etc) can situate all their back office departments and staff in one centralised location in the centre of Europe. SSC operations therefore typically span across the whole company department structure, from IT through to accounts, Customer Service, Sales and positions range from Junior to Senior Management.