Rozee Job Fair 2008 – Shocking Report
Guest Post by : Shair Khan >> shair.khan[at the rate of] gmail.com
A week ago I received a mail from rozee.pk informing me to register on their job fair, which (like rest of the guys on rozee), I always do when ever this event is held. So this time I made the mistake of registering and actually wasting some of my precious time to visit this so called fair. Now once I was there I saw a huge group of people standing outside in a queue. Thinking of it as some sort of security check I stood in the line showed the guys my entrance ticket and entered the area designated to job fare. When I entered I had an image that there will be some sort of booths of different companies where we can go and drop our CVs. But what actually happened was that I met another line which was three times as large as the one I met outside and the first question that came into my mind was “what the hell is this?” so I decided to ask an organizer the same question and the answer I received was that we are checking the entrance tickets over here. I asked the guy, what was the previous checking for (as they did the same at the entrance)? He obviously had no answer. Not satisfied by the guy’s attitude I asked another organizer the same question and he said there is no SPACE inside that is why we are holding everybody out here.
Well my question to all the companies out there who were at the job fare is…..If you guys are seriously looking for good talent do you really expect them to wait in an unorganized queue just to throw in their CV’s. OBVIOUSLY NO. People who know their stuff and have applied for executive jobs or senior positions do not have the time to stand in queues. That is what you do when you go to a bank to pay your utility bills.
This was the most unorganized event I had ever attended. Even the Horse and Cattle Show (Qaumi Sanati Numaish) is better organized than this. All I want to say is GROW UP GUYZ if you expect us to be professionals we expect the same from you and in future ORGANIZE an event then invite people
Written by Shair Khan
shair.khan[at]gmail.com
Tags: IT Jobs, Job Fair, Karachi Jobs, Lahore Jobs, Mobilink, Mobilink Jobs, Pakistan Jobs, Rozee, Telecom Jobs, Telenor
What happened after that. Curious to know further.
Well after that i came to GJs and wrote this article :D got all the frustration out of me and enjoyed my coffee
dude one side of the story is just not enough for me, did the same thing happened at expo last year?
when you’ve got attendance exceeding 8000 (and thats the safest estimate) what do you do, can you think of any arena capable of entertaining such a crowd with proper conditioning system. and on top of all that its Pakistani crowd after all and we all know how it is, people, professional as you mentioned were roaming around mainly to gaze at girls and God knows what not, other wise it doesn’t take more than half an hour to drop off your CV on all 50 stalls if you may consider that contrary to which on average a person took like 1.5 hr =)
I agree with Fazal, I know for a fact that ROZEE.PK Staff kept making regular announcements that if job seekers are done dropping their CVs off then pls leave the venue so that other job seekers can get a chance to come in. But what can you do or say, our people in Pakistan just cannot see other individuals succeed. i saw so many guys just walking around with their buddies and just bird watching. I mean come on yaar….even the crowd was not forming a straight line so that they could enter peacefully…and we call ourselves “professionals”…maybe we shud change and that call ourselves “junglees”. Chao