Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) of ICT Division of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh is going to organize a job fair in the capital with the aim of providing employment to specially-abled person or for the person with disabilities on February.
The fair will be organized in collaboration with the Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID).
On February 10, 2024, Saturday morning, the day-long fair will be started at the office building of the NGO Affairs Bureau in Agargaon, Dhaka.
The state minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Mr. Zunaid Ahmed Palak, MP will inaugurate the job fair 2024 as the chief guest.
Online and email applications have already been collected from interested job aspirants. Approximately 500 applications have already been received.
Among them, computer-trained and skilled job aspirants are being called to come to the job fair. The organizing authorities are expecting that it would be possible to give jobs to around 50 people at the fair while more than 200 job candidates will be shortlisted for interview for subsequent recruitment.
Coordinator of the job fair and Manager (Systems) of BCC Golam Rabbani said that the BCC has been giving training on ICT to the people with disabilities at free of cost since 2011.
The job fair is organized mainly to give jobs to persons who have taken training in ICT from BCC, he said, adding, over 900 persons with disabilities skilled in ICT have got jobs through the fair since 2015.
ICT-based institutions belonging to different trade bodies or associations, including Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB), and Bangladesh Association of Contact Center and Outsourcing (BACCO) member organizations, will participate in the fair.
