With the goal of crafting a platform to help fresh-graduates find exposure to lucrative internships and job placements, the Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) Career Club has organised a job fair.
The BUP on Tuesday started the three-day long job carnival titled ‘BUP Career & Education Fest’--presented by Robi, in association with Yellow, on its campus in the capital.
One Bank Limited and HBD Services are the event partners; supported by BUP BGA and BUP Counselling & Placement Centre; with Concito PR as the Outreach Partner, Financial Express as the print media partner, Radio Foorti is the Radio partner & BUP Photography Society as the documentation partner.
Students heading off to the corporate world can often feel overwhelmed with the pressure of choosing a career path that matches their interests and skills.
On the other hand, the struggle to identify the appropriate skilled graduates seems to be a relentless quest for employers.
The career fest, with the aim to bridge the gap between the supply demand sides of skills, will bring potential employers and anxious job seekers under one roof.
Following the footsteps of previous editions, this year’s Fest will have 25 well reputed employing organisations on board to succour recruiters handpick fresh talents from diverse backgrounds.
Thus this platform will create pathways to build successful careers for not only business graduates but also for the 1000 students graduating from all 13 departments at the BUP.
Past recruiters have had great success in identifying high calibre students for their full-time positions and internships through meticulous engagements and CV collections at the fair.
Of the notable recruiters participating in this year’s event, many are from BUP alumni who are coming back to their beloved campus to acquire potential individuals for their core management teams.
Hence the zealousness of not final year students but also the batches that follow is expected to be higher than ever.
The aforementioned companies include ventures from BUP Graduates themselves and the rest participating companies include: Robi, Beximco, One Bank, HBD Services, BRAC, Grameenphone, Kazi IT Center, BRAC Bank, bKash, IPDC Finance Limited, Lankabangla Finance Limited, Banglalink, Teach for Bangladesh, Bikroy, Daraz Bangladesh, Renata Limited, Confidence group, Augmedix, Talent Centric, Shajgoj, Adex Group of Companies, MyJobs, IDP Education Limited, Mentors’ Education, PFEC Global.
With a view to- make information about higher studies available for the to-be-graduates aiming to apply abroad and help them comprehend facts and processes of securing scholarships, significant Career Grooming Sessions will be conducted by industry experts.
However, other corporate leaders will also be present to empower BUP students through their well-structured enlightening sessions; as such speakers from One Bank highlighting scopes and issues on Fintech.
The BUP Career Carnival is open to its students, officials, company executives and even alumni.
Last year fest’s turnout was a clear reflection of the continued strong demand for the outstanding student talent BUP produces.
Hence the 5th edition of BUP Career and Education Fest promises to unleash bigger and better channels to promote industry-university alliance in ensuring graduating batches get access to prospective employers for bagging internships and entry level positions.
‘The writer is a third year student of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA General), currently studying in Bangladesh University of Professionals.
You can reach out to her at [email protected]’
