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Posts Tagged ‘Jobs in Pakistan’

Employment in Pakistan

By Fatima Tassaduq • Aug 10th, 2009 • Category: Misc

What career to choose, what to study, where to get admission, how to find job, how to proceed in the career, how to change gears during the job, how to look for better opportunities, and how to excel in one’s field are very alien concpets in the country of ours, and very very few people [...]



Need a Job? Show Them You Can Twitter

By Sumaira Bajwa • Jul 25th, 2009 • Category: Technology

On Craigslist this week, one job posting asked applicants to “e-mail your resume, online portfolio and the URL to your Facebook profile.”
Another posting required a “demonstrated love for social marketing technologies, including Facebook, blogging and Twitter.”
Experts say social media skills are moving alongside knowledge of e-mail and Microsoft Word as basic job requirements. This emerging [...]



Way to go in private jobs!

By Mian Usman • Jul 19th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Below is not applicable on all the private sector organizations, this is for the ones who treat employees like animals and bonded slaves.
1. Employees are like the people working in the red light area, they dont get respect even they earn a lot.
2. Cant trust even your own Shadow, the more you trust people the [...]



Impact of Economic Crisis on Employment in the Gulf

By Rohail Butt • Jul 16th, 2009 • Category: Misc

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The economic downturn has slowed recruitment activity in the GCC region significantly, with Dubai in particular seeing a fall in the number of vacancies advertised, though still retaining a sizeable share.
More discreet and confidential recruitment methods and a shift to lower cost recruitment channels are also among the main trends highlighted in research carried [...]



The rising spectre of unemployment

By Falak Sher Khan • Apr 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

As defined by the International Labor Organization, “unemployed workers” are those who are currently not working but are willing and able to work for pay, currently available to work, and have actively searched for work. The prevalence of unemployment is usually measured using the unemployment rate, which is defined as the percentage of those in [...]



Gilani Providing Jobs : But From Where ?

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Providing jobs is one of the main responsibility of the government, but before that creating such opportunities is a must. When the economy is at knees and when the private sector has become crippled and the financial markets are crumbling and the deficits are gaping from every nook and when there is shortage of everything, [...]



Job Sites in Pakistan

By Rohail Butt • Nov 17th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Just couple of years ago, you would have been hard pressed to find good 5 job websites on the World Wide Web related to jobs in Pakistan or for Pakistanis in the Gulf and other parts of the world. But today, the things have changed drastically, and the online job seekers have got a huge [...]



Working in IT … Is it good or bad?

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 28th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Now don’t think that being an IT Professional myself I am giving suggestion to the upcoming IT professional that do think again to work in the field of IT … That not the case for all of you . As being working in the IT field from past 10 years I have realized that it’s [...]