BASIS SoftExpo ends with huge crowd of IT jobseekers

A huge number of crowds, seeking information technology (IT) jobs, thronged the BASIS SoftExpo 2023 on its last day.

Thousands of IT graduates and IT professionals visited the ‘ICT Career Camp and Job Fair’ events of the expo at Bangabandhu Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Center in the capital on Sunday.

IT companies participating at the events interviewed registered job seekers based on the qualifications and skills, with organisers saying they expect around 500 people to get hired.

BASIS SoftExpo, the largest ICT exhibition in the South Asian region, was organised by the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) with support from bdjobs.com.

Prokash Roy Chowdhury, marketing director of BdJobs.com, said the fair is a good chance for connecting job seekers and employers as there is a lot of demand for skilled IT professionals in the growing IT organisations of the country.

He said, “We organised this fair keeping in mind the needs of the industry. Top 102 IT companies including Ecologics Limited, WP Developers, Essential Infotech, Magnus Corporation joined this fair to recruit IT professionals for 500 positions.”

“It is a paperless job fair. Candidates scanned the QR code of the organisation they are applying for and got the details of that organisation. Candidates are going there and applying. Then the companies selected candidates and interviewed them.”

AKM Fahim Mashroor, chief executive officer, BDJobs said, “We got an incredible response at the fair. 5000 people participated in the event.

“90 per cent of the participants were young job seekers. We are expecting IT graduates and IT professionals to definitely get jobs from here for around 500 positions.”