Manpower in Bangladesh

Diversifying manpower export market

GLOBAL economic slowdown appears to have a negative impact on Bangladesh’s manpower export sector. Employment prospects in Saudi Arabia, the single largest destination for thousands of overseas job seekers, has shrunk since July last as Riyadh has almost halted issuing…

Call for withdrawal of restriction on manpower export

Experts at a seminar Sunday urged the government to exert pressure on the developed countries at the upcoming UN conference on Financing for Development (FfD) in Doha to lift all kinds of restrictions on Bangladesh to ensure skilled manpower unhindered…

Action plan for grooming skilled manpower discussed

A national panel Sunday elaborately discussed a 14-point action plan for grooming skilled manpower suiting contemporary job requirements at home and abroad, reports UNB.

The recently formed National Skills Development Council (NSDC) in its first meeting at the CA’s office took…

0.8ml find overseas jobs in first 11 months of 2008

Over 0.8 million Bangladeshis found overseas jobs in the first 11 months of this calendar year as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) alone employed nearly half of them, official sources said.

The Middle Eastern country recruited 393,201 Bangladeshis in the first…

President urges Brunei to recruit skilled manpower

President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed Tuesday urged the Brunei government to recruit more skilled manpower from Bangladesh as they could contribute to their growing economy, reports BSS.

“Brunei can recruit more Bangladeshi doctors, engineers, IT experts, nurses, pharmacists and teachers to…

ICT outsourcing and Bangladesh

THE global outsourcing business has seen a tremendous growth in past years. The outsourcing in software and information & communication technology (ICT)-enabled services (ITES) created an immense interest in Bangladesh seeing the success of the developing countries like India, Philippines…

Manpower export

Almost all the developed countries are now looking for foreign workers. Despite the recession, there is demand for workers from the developing countries.

But surprisingly we cannot seize the opportunities like other countries such as India, the Philippines or other Asian…

Manpower export from Bangladesh

must congratulate Helal Ahmed Chowdhury, Managing Director of Pubali Bank, for coming up with a very innovative scheme for funding the prospective job seekers abroad. A substantial number of the expatriate wage earners are victims of the unscrupulous manpower agents…

Modernise technical edn to create skilled manpower

The engineering and technical education will have to be modernised and expanded across the country for creating skilled manpower which is one of the key ways to make the nation prosperous, speakers at a seminar said yesterday.

The second shift system…

Manpower brokers in big hundi racket buy job demands

Amid lax management in the overseas sector, recruiting agencies and manpower brokers smuggle about Tk 8,000 crore every year in the form of hundi to buy visas or job demands for Bangladeshi workers.

Such illegal transactions spawn enormous malpractices forcing a…