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Hunting for that perfect job in Bangladesh
Who doesn't want that perfect job that suits them just right? Everyone looks forward to a bright career. The question is, how do we go about starting our search for that dream job? Today, with all the numerous job sites available in Bangladesh, you no longer need to depend on references from relatives, or hunt through several newspapers. All you need is the qualification and the determination to go get it. There are quite a handful of job search sites for Bangladeshis on the internet. These include:
www.bdjobs.com
www.deshijob.com
www.jobsa1.com
www.jobsbangladesh.com
www.prothom-alojobs.com
All these websites provide you with opportunities to work for some of the biggest companies in Bangladesh, and some even advertise jobs abroad. The websites are similarly designed with opportunities for both employers and job seekers. Once you register yourself with the website, you are immediately provided with a sea of opportunities. If you are an employer, for a specified payment, you can register yourself with the website, provide your company profile and then post your vacancies. You can specify posts that are open anytime and give descriptions of the qualifications required for the post. You can also optionally specify the salary that you would like to offer. Moreover, you are given the opportunity to browse through the site's CV Bank that will provide you with a whole database of résumés posted by jobseekers. The site even provides information about the résumés posted, which match your requirements. If you are seeking a job, you can post your résumé on the site and have the site inform you of job opportunities that match what you are looking for. You can also type in keywords for the kind of company or post that you are looking for and get a list of job vacancies that match your keywords. Additionally, these sites also organise job vacancies categorically so that finding the right kind of job is just a breeze. What's more, they even email you on a regular basis informing you of new job opportunities. All these websites also give expert advice and tips on how to make a good CV and covering letter, how to give an impressive and effective interview and even provides some amount of career counselling. All that sounds good: however, every good thing in this world has a dark side. In case of online job sites, it is the risk of becoming a victim to scam and fraudulent companies. Najmul Huda, an engineer in a well-to-do company in Dhaka, had fallen prey to such a scam in his search for a bright future abroad. Through a very reputed job search site, he applied for a job in a Sweden-based company, and got accepted, with an offer for a huge pay, a car, a furnished accommodation with cook, and a visa. Huda kept in constant touch with them through email, posting them whatever documents they asked for and even gave a telephone interview. Everything about the company sounded convincing, even the photographs of the office building. However, there was a catch. They told Huda that they would bear half the price of his ticket to Sweden and he would have to pay the rest (for security reasons, they said) which made sense - what was the guarantee that he was not a fraud? So they asked Huda to send them this money. Luckily, instinct told him to verify first before sending any money. On contacting the Swedish Embassy, all was clear, that this company had just set him up. There are many like Najmul Huda who naively fall into the clutches of such companies, sometimes risking everything. With the ease of use provided by online job sites, posting false CVs or fake company profiles is a piece of cake. Most job sites do little to research and confirm the validity of companies that register with them, especially when it comes to companies abroad. Fahim Mashrur, CEO of bdjobs.com, however, chooses to differ by saying "We at bdjobs sign a contract with companies that register with us, only after validating that the company really exists." However, every job search website should have a separate research department to do stringent research on both the employer and the employees registered with them, even verifying whether the employer actually knows twenty different languages that he claims to be fluent in on his CV. This will also ensure the faith of users from both sides of the job market on the website. But until this is put into practice, readers are advised to follow discretion before they chose their employer or employee.
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