Chittagong Bureau :
IT Job Fair in Chittagong has been ended with a big congregation of interested jobseekers and employers on a single platform.
In the job fair 133 jobseekers were offered instant job proposals while 695 others were primarily selected for IT jobs.
State Minister for ICT affairs Junaid Ahmed Palak attended the concluding ceremony of the IT-ITES job fair held at GEC auditorium of Chittagong as Chief Guest. As part of the initiative, Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) project of BCC under ICT Division in collaboration with e-Commerce platform Pickaboo and UK-based Ernst and Young (EY) is going to organise an “Pickaboo presents Chittagong IT-ITES Job Fair-2017” on October 26 at GEC Convention Center, officials said.
They said leading 50 Information Technology (IT) and IT Enabled Services (IT-ITES) companies and 10,000 job seekers are expected to attend the job fair to be inaugurated by State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak.
The IT companies are likely to recruit some jobseekers on-the-spot during the job fair based on their best performance to demonstrate the assignments given earlier to them, they said.
Executive Director of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) Swapan Kumar Sarker said the job fair is a part of the initiatives of LICT Project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) that has planned to hold a series of similar job fairs across the country in the days to come aimed at bringing both jobseekers and employers on a single platform. He said the “Pickaboo presents Chittagong IT-ITES Job Fair-2017” will offer a great opportunity for the graduates who have already received training conducted by EY under LICT project.
The EY which was appointed by LICT project to provide world class IT training to 30,000 graduates of colleges and universities has so far trained 14,000 graduates, said LICT Project Director Md Rezaul Karim. He said the job fair will work as bridge between jobseekers and the employers and to establish direct contact among them.
IT Job Fair in Chittagong has been ended with a big congregation of interested jobseekers and employers on a single platform.
In the job fair 133 jobseekers were offered instant job proposals while 695 others were primarily selected for IT jobs.
State Minister for ICT affairs Junaid Ahmed Palak attended the concluding ceremony of the IT-ITES job fair held at GEC auditorium of Chittagong as Chief Guest. As part of the initiative, Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) project of BCC under ICT Division in collaboration with e-Commerce platform Pickaboo and UK-based Ernst and Young (EY) is going to organise an “Pickaboo presents Chittagong IT-ITES Job Fair-2017” on October 26 at GEC Convention Center, officials said.
They said leading 50 Information Technology (IT) and IT Enabled Services (IT-ITES) companies and 10,000 job seekers are expected to attend the job fair to be inaugurated by State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak.
The IT companies are likely to recruit some jobseekers on-the-spot during the job fair based on their best performance to demonstrate the assignments given earlier to them, they said.
Executive Director of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) Swapan Kumar Sarker said the job fair is a part of the initiatives of LICT Project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) that has planned to hold a series of similar job fairs across the country in the days to come aimed at bringing both jobseekers and employers on a single platform. He said the “Pickaboo presents Chittagong IT-ITES Job Fair-2017” will offer a great opportunity for the graduates who have already received training conducted by EY under LICT project.
The EY which was appointed by LICT project to provide world class IT training to 30,000 graduates of colleges and universities has so far trained 14,000 graduates, said LICT Project Director Md Rezaul Karim. He said the job fair will work as bridge between jobseekers and the employers and to establish direct contact among them.
