The Embassy of Bangladesh in Hague in association with BrainChain, organized a career planning workshop for Bangladeshi students and job seekers on Sunday.
BrainChain is an association of Bangladeshi professionals who are successfully working in Dutch companies, reports UNB.
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.
Every year a good number of students come to different universities in the Netherlands for higher studies, the embassy said.
After successfully finishing their programs, they get a one year grace period to get a job in the Netherlands which leads to a visa extension eventually set them on the path for citizenship.
Embassy officials, members of the embassy family, BrainChain members and 13 Bangladesh nationals, who are preparing themselves for job, participated in the workshop.
Members of BrainChain guided them to prepare themselves as potential candidates for job market.
Ambassador Sheikh Mohammed Belal thanked BrainChain for their trend setting example of “giving back” to the motherland and hoped that they will continue to include innovation at the “innovation room” in the embassy.
“Our ultimate goal is to see our students back in Bangladesh and contribute towards nation building utilizing the new found skills in the Netherlands,” he said.
