Sayeed Muhammad: Kolorob Jobs, a digital job portal to create job opportunities for unemployed and vulnerable youths, has been launched.
State Minister for Posts, Telecom and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak launched the website, a project of Save the Children in Bangladesh, in a Dhaka hotel yesterday, reports UNB.
Save the Children Country Director Mark Taylor Pierce in his opening remarks said the aim of the platform is to make job placement easier for unemployed and vulnerable youth job seekers in Bangladesh where employers can recruit qualified semi-skilled and skilled workers for blue collar jobs using the platform.
Welcoming the move, Zunaid Ahmed Palak said ICT Division can also play role using the platform as job provider for the applicants including outsourcing jobs through signing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with stakeholders to publish the job opportunities in the platform.
The ICT division is designing a 6 to 12 months long vocational training and Kolorob Jobs can support the initiative through making the youth population knows about the trainings countrywide as well as for choosing skilled trainers, he added.
This website is an initiative led by EYE (Education for Youth Empowerment) programme that works for empowering adolescents and youth in Bangladesh by building their skills and capabilities. It also works with businesses and employers to help youth and adolescents to transition to decent work and become active citizens.
Referring to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) data, EYE Programme Director Shahida Begum said around 25% of the country’s youth population in the 15-29 years’ age group is remained outside of employment, education or training (NEET), and 60 percent of them are female.
Currently EYE programme reaches 190,000 adolescent and youths in 11 city corporations and 17 districts of Bangladesh including 90 Upazilas every year, she said.
The project is working through partnership with 22 national organisations and 50 corporations along with the government of the country, she added.