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The government is going to provide soft skills training to 500,000 job seekers and employees within the next five years to increase their employability skills.
“The demand for soft skills-trained people will substantially be increased over the next decades as huge jobs will be transformed by technology,” state minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak said on Saturday.
He said the government in partnership with a reputed global organisation will provide quality soft skills training to students, jobseekers, employees, self-employed individuals and freelancers to enhance their personal ability to get a job.
Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under ICT Division in partnership with Wadhani Operating Foundation (WoF), a US based nonprofit, will provide the training online under BCC’s training platform www.bdskills.gov.bd.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between BCC and WoF on August 1 to complete the soft skills training programme by 2026.
Project Director of Leveraging ICT and CA Operation and Security Director of Data Center of BCC Tarique M Barkatullah and Executive Director of WoF Dr Ajay Kela put initials on the MoU on behalf of the respective organization.
The registration using the bdskills platform for the trainees will start sometimes in the last week of this month and the training will begin in September this year.
Palak said the training would help job seekers to get a job as many companies of home and abroad are creating jobs in data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) economy, engineering, cloud computing and product development etc.
