Desk Report: Save the Children Bangladesh launched a new website-based job platform to help unemployed young men and women to get jobs and trainings considering high unemployment rate in the country, reports New Age. Zunaid said, ‘Save the Children has done a wonderful job in terms of bringing solution to a complicated problem.
We can join Save the Children initiatives in promoting our job advertisement through an alternative platform like Kolorob Jobs.’
‘An estimated one million 15 to 29-year-olds — or a quarter of the country’s youth population — are considered not employment, education or training, and 60% are girls and women,’ according to the release.
Kolorob Jobs is designed specifically to support the blue collar workforce, and would allow young jobseekers to search and apply for jobs, prepare and upload CVs, access free online training modules and information about vocational training, the release added.
It would support the employers to advertise and recruit skilled workers with minimum or no costs, get access to CV pools of semi-skilled and skilled workers. The training providers would be able to promote their services and courses though the platform, it mentioned.
Save the Children Bangladesh country director Mark Pierce said the platform would help bridge a gap to allow young people to get access to opportunities to build their futures.
‘Kolorob Jobs is an exciting new tool that will make it easier for vulnerable young job seekers to find work by aggregating and organising the informal job market,’ he said.
The website is an initiative led by EYE (Education for Youth Empowerment) programme that works to empower adolescents and youth in Bangladesh building their skills and capabilities.
Shahida Begum, programme director of EYE, Wahidur Rahman Sharif, president of Bangladesh Association of Call Centre and Outsourcing, Syed Almas Kabir, president of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services, among others, were present.
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