SABLOG

There were five panel speakers who shared the ways they follow while recruiting employees in their respective companies. Prof. Dr. M Z Mamun, Director, Institute of Business Administration of Dhaka University, was the only panel speaker outside the corporate world. The other panel members were Sandeep Mookharjea, Head of HR, Standard Chartered Bank, Asif Zaman, Head of HR Division, Huawei Technologies Bangladesh, Suman Bhattacharjee, General Manager, HR Division, Cairn Energy, Emad-Ul-Amin, Director, HR, Grameenphone, Arif Shahriar, Head of Group HR, RahimAfrooz. Ms. Naila Chowdhury, Group Director of aamra group of companies was the moderator of the seminar. At the beginning of the seminar, Russell T Ahmed, Convener of Corporate Bazaar 2008, introduced the panel speakers with the audiences. The seminar was hosted by Standard Chattered Bank.

In his speech, Prof. Dr. M Z Mamun said that students must be disciplined from the very beginning. He also said that from the very first day they need to believe that they are manager. He indicated the importance of the overall get up of the graduates. Besides discipline, he also stressed on the communication skill of the graduates. Dr. Mamun focused on honesty and co-curriculum activities of the students and while talking about resume, he called on the graduates to be honest while making their resumes and include only those areas which the company is looking for in order to make the resumes precise.

Stating the fact that his company recruited 400 odd employees and received CVs from different sources almost everyday, Sandeep Mookharjea said that it was impossible to go though the CVs thoroughly and they needed to filter the CVs. In the first level of filter, his company looks at the academic credentials of the graduates and then which institutions the graduates came from.

While answering a question of a student Mr. Sandeep said that the companies want the best person for a post in this competitive world as like a student wants to join a good company. He said that Standard Chartered Bank had two offers for the fresh graduates in which they even do not need to have any experience. At the end, he called on the graduates to be prepared for a number of things like working in a team, working extra hours whenever challenges come, developing personality and communication skill, learning from the mistakes, becoming visible in terms of works and impress the people in higher hierarchy, knowing the company well etc.

Emad-Ul-Amin echoed Mr. Sandeep while talking about the filtering process of the companies. He added that making mistakes in the CV made a negative impression regarding the candidate. He also said that the graduates must ensure that their skill is enough to be recruited in the companies. While giving the answer of a student on giving reference in the CV, he said that the reference should be validated and the students needed to give reference someone who knew the students.

Arif Shahriar said on the seminar that students must have a dream what he or she is going to be. He stressed on changing the management though leadership. He said that it was important for the graduates to know how to market themselves. Mr. Arif focused on extra curricular activities besides CGPA and other academic records. To him, the capability of adding values is an advantage of a prospective graduate.

He asked the graduates to know about the companies and the post they applied for. Attitudes, knowledge and skill are some of the areas he thinks, graduates should also focus on. Regarding English language skill, he said that having competency in English was not everything to achieve a job. About the questions a candidate might face in the interview, he said that it was not like that the questions would always be made from your discipline. Even family related question might come in the interview board.

Asif Zaman brought his personal experience while talking about the common attributes the companies look for in fresh graduates. He said that the graduates have to make themselves visible. He focused on skill, knowledge and ability of the graduates. He asked the graduates to self themselves to the recruiters and develop communication skills. Mr. Asif also said that his company wanted people who can challenge and are determined.

Labels: Corporate Bazaar