Bangladesh embassy in the Netherlands has organized, in association with BrainChain, organised a career planning workshop for Bangladeshi students and job seekers.
To prepare Bangladesh origin students better, share the challenges and opportunities of the Dutch job market and firsthand experience of facing job interviews, the embassy organized the workshop for the first time Saturday.
Every year a good number of students come to different universities of The Netherlands for higher studies.
After successful completion of study, they get one year grace period to secure a job in the Netherlands which will lead to visa extension and successful continuation of the job for couple of years will ultimately lead to the citizenship, says a press release.
13 Bangladesh nationals, who are preparing themselves for job, participated in the workshop.
Members of BrainChain, an association of Bangladeshi professionals who are successfully working in Dutch companies, guided them to prepare themselves as potential candidate for job market.
The members of BrainChain, through their presentation briefed the participants about goal setting, job search strategies, application and cover letter writing and other job search related activities. A mock interviews was being conducted for the participants.
Ambassador Sheikh Mohhamad Belal thanked “BrainChain” for their trend setting example of “giving back” to the motherland and hoped that they will continue to include innovation in our “innovation” room in the Embassy.