The office of the Career Guidance and Placement at Independent University Bangladesh (IUB) arranged a daylong job fair on Monday, 17 June for its students and graduates at the university campus in Bashundhara, Dhaka.
Rashed Chowdhury, former chairman, Board of Trustees, IUB, inaugurated the fair as the chief guest and spoke during the inaugural ceremony.
Javed Hosein, member, Board of Trustees; Professor Milan Pagon, acting VC, IUB; Zara Mahbub, Country director and CEO, KITC Limited; Sheik Ehsan Reza, head of Human Resource Management, Bashundhara Group; and Md Abdullah Iqbal, deputy director, Career Guidance and Placement, IUB also addressed the audience in the ceremony.
The objectives of organizing and implementing IUB Job Fair were in 2-fold. It was held to create opportunities for university graduates and students to know about the leading companies and organisations of the country.
This fair also took them through the operational procedures of participating organisations, their vision, mission and values and created avenues towards obtaining suitable jobs and crafting desired professional careers.
The participating companies also got enormous possibilities of choosing resourceful and promising professionals who can really become the assets for these organizations in order to expanding and achieving their ultimate business and operational goals.
During the chief guest’s speech, Rashed Chowdhury mentioned that every year the job fair is getting better with more quality companies participating enthusiastically. He requested the students to take the advantage of it for having desired careers.
Javed Hosein, in his speech, stated that IUB endeavors to produce quality professionals for the industry. Job fair is one of the great ways to determine as to how IUB alumni should be prepared for the market, he underscored.
Professor Milan Pagon spoke about the employability. He urged students to be employable instead of looking for typical jobs. However, these are only possible through acquiring required knowledge and expertise since nowadays, job security comes from competence and distinctiveness.
A total number of 46 leading multinational and national companies and organisations took part in the fair. Through different stalls, they collected significant number of CVs from potential IUB candidates who will later have the opportunity to kick-off their promising professional career.
