Int’l Job fair to be held from January 12 to 14

Int’l Job fair to be held from January 12 to 14
ArthaExpress.com, 6-Jan08

Here´s a good opportunity for aspirant job seekers. For the first time in Nepal, a three-day long international job extravaganza ´Convergys International Job Fair´ is being organised at Birendra International Convention Centre (BICC), New Baneshwor on January 12-14.

To be jointly organised by the High Level Committee of Information Technology (HLCIT), New Horizons Nepal and Timesjobs.com in association with Convergys, it boasts of offering more than 1000 jobs in reputed multinational companies. As Nepali labour market cannot absorb all unemployed youths, this fair will help reduce unemployment. However, good command over speaking English and +12 pass are the minimum criterion.

According to Sujit Acharya, CEO of New Horizons Nepal the event´s main aim is to create a channel through which international companies can employ the potential human resources from Nepal. "The job-offers at the fair will also help solve unemployment problem," he said adding that Nepal will get more remittance.

"The fair will also help interact multinational companies with local universities and find necessary man-power," said Saroj Devkota, vice-chairman of HLCIT. "These skilled manpower will fetch more remittance," he said adding that they will return as experienced lot.

The major participating companies in the fair include Fortune 500 companies like IBM and Fiserv, EXL Corporation and Convergys. "We support all such efforts to create employment as adverse situation had created more unemployment in Nepal," Manoj Goyal, CEO of Clean Energy Bank that is offering on the spot loan, said.

"Those who return after such exposure would help create more jobs back home," Jan Kerer, senior advisor of GTZ said. Besides GTZ, it has been endorsed by Labour Ministry, NRNs, FNCCI, SDC and Winrock.