Making life easier for job-hunters

All these sites provide news and advertisements about vacancies in firms and companies. To be notified of such vacancies, job seekers should sign in as members of each site. Besides advertisements, the sites aid seekers with curriculum vitae and resume writing. Some sites even have options for customised curriculum vitae.

jobsbd.com, for example, has an innovative set of choices, usually sought by job seekers. Such choices would be the options of ‘Immigration', ‘H1B Visa', ‘Foreign jobs', ‘Enrollment to foreign universities' and so on besides the usual being ‘Career', 'Resume', 'Interview', 'Career Guide', 'Consultancy’ and so on.

The problems with such sections is that, the 'Immigration', 'H1B Visa’ and other such options lead to information about immigration to the United States of America, which could be easily obtained from the US Embassy in the city.

Also the 'Foreign jobs’ option lead to further information about job prospects in Germany and also through a link back to the ‘H1B Visa' choice. As could be the case, most individual while clicking on such options, would be anticipating information about potential job vacancies in any foreign country, or information about immigration procedures to such countries and so on. The developers should further look into such details and try to improve the web site, by solving such potential 'confusions'.

Otherwise, the ‘Enrollment to foreign Universities' provides links to various colleges and universities of USA, Canada, Australia, Bangladesh, India and the UK, which is a commended effort on the part of the developers of this site. Also, the 'Customized CV’ section, which contains curriculum vitae of job seekers along with their photographs, is a great addition to the site.

"Our portal was the first ever job-based site to be launched in Bangladesh," said Kamruzzaman, business executive, Daffodil Web & E-commerce Limited.

"Within the next three months or so, we hope to present the site with a whole new look, hopefully," he added.

jobsbangladesh.com is a much simpler site than the previous one. The site contains the usual choices of 'Vacancies', 'Employer's Link’ and so on.

Alongside these, the site has a range of worthy sections like 'Jobs Today', 'Walk-in Interview', 'Deadline Tomorrow’ and others which would be quite effective to help out any individual in dire need of a job.

"We have been receiving steady responses and are still busy with the promotion of the site," said Masudul Islam, executive member of the site. "By December, we plan to market and improve the site as much as possible, with more sections and other options," he said.

grameenjobs.com , has options like 'Employer's Section', 'Career Counselling', 'Featured Employer's’ as well as sections containing the day's 'Additions’ and 'Deadlines’.

The site is quite attractive with a ‘Top Click' section, which sports short introductions of organisations seeking employees along with the job designation itself, which is helpful for seekers glancing through the site.

jobsforall.com, is a standardised job site, providing job searches, according to ‘Functional Area', 'Area of Specialisation’ and also 'Location’. The site has a well-planned 'Employee Link’ with a very helpful 'Career Center' containing 'General' & 'Job-related’ articles.

The site has been extremely helpful for job seekers but has been undergoing renovations for the last few months. Recent updates and other additional and necessary sections would actually do wonders for this site.

Last but not the least, is bdjobs.com, which is invariably the most popular site for the Bangladeshi job market. The site has the usual range of sections like 'Employer's Section', 'Post Resume', 'Career Counselling' 'Search Job by categories’ along with useful sections like 'Search Jobs by key Words’, and ‘Hot Jobs'.

Rather than haphazardly listing the interest of most seekers, along with the rest of the services provided by the site, the developers have a different section called ‘Career Resource', which further contains extremely necessary details and tips needed during interviews. This section further contains ‘Cover-letter' and ‘Resume' writing tips.

Pop-ups informing seekers about helpful workshops in or around the city, also is a great new addition to this site.

"We have recently initiated the professional resume writing section to which seekers have been responding positively," said AKM Fahim Mashroor, chief executive officer, bdjobs.com. "We would hopefully be making improvement and additions to our site gradually," he said.

All these sites are more or less aiding most seekers as well as employers with the necessary details required in the extremely competitive job market of today. Periodic surveys and researches on what the job market demands and therefore updates and additions of sections to the sites, would actually lead to better accomplishment of the noble purposes, which had led the developers to initiate such sites in the first place.