THE Bangladesh Civil Service examination, often dubbed the 鈥榗ivilian lottery,鈥� has for decades been a defining gateway to public service. The three-stage test is known for its unforgiving rigour, shaping the destinies of thousands each year. Successful candidates secure coveted cadre positions, posts carrying prestige, authority and long-term security. For those who...
Weak US jobs data cemented expectations of an interest rate cut later this month on Friday, but stocks slid on worries about the economic outlook and profit-taking...
BRAC Bank鈥檚 social welfare initiative 鈥楢porajeyo Ami鈥�, in collaboration with the Bangladesh Business and Disability Network (BBDN), hosted a job fair for persons with disabilities, where a total of 46 PWDs secured employment at various companies...
US job growth stalled in August while unemployment crept up to its highest level since 2021, in a closely watched report Friday after weak data earlier prompted president Donald Trump to fire a key economic official.
At age 70, Pete Maie appears nervous at the start of a job interview to work as a part-time parcel delivery driver for a German logistics company...
Stock markets diverged and global bonds stabilised on Thursday as investors looked to US jobs data to cement rate-cut bets...
According to a recent study analysis, 81 per cent women cannot take up jobs outside home due to their pressure of household chores...
Jobe Bellingham admitted on Tuesday to having 鈥榓nxieties鈥� on following in brother Jude's footsteps after joining Borussia Dortmund in the summer.
A NUMBER of challenges persist in economic recovery, especially in poverty reduction, employment generation and business environment despite some improvement in the macroeconomic sector in the past year. While it is understandable that the authoritarian and kleptocratic Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising in August 2024, left the economy in a shattered...
PRAN-RFL Group has created 2,000 jobs in six months by reviving the long-closed Rajshahi Textile Mills, renaming Barendra Rajshahi Textile Limited...
President Donald Trump said Friday he has ordered the firing of a key economic official, accusing her of manipulating employment data for political reasons after a new report showed cracks in the US jobs market...
US job growth missed expectations in July, government data showed Friday, while revisions to hiring figures in recent months brought them to the weakest levels since the Covid pandemic.
THIS is unfortunate that the interim government, which assumed office after the overthrow of the Awami League government on August 5, 2024 in an uprising that began on July 1 that year as student protests against civil service job reservations, has yet to comprehensively enlist all who died and became wounded at the hand of law enforcers who were aided by the...
The students of the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology on Sunday at a demonstration demanded reforms in engineering job recruitment...
Canada鈥檚 unemployment rate fell slightly to 6.9 percent in June thanks to robust hiring in the wholesale and retail sector, manufacturing and health care, the government said Friday...
Police on Friday afternoon dispersed a group of students and jobseekers who blocked the Shahbagh crossing in the capital demanding reforms in the Public Service Commission and measures against the masterminds of government job recruitment...
Eastern University held a seminar titled Prospects of Higher Studies and International Work Permit Visa in Japan at the Rezakul Haider Hall of the EU at Ashulia Model Town in Dhaka on Monday...
REFORMS in the civil service job reservations that students sought, which sparked off protests on July 1, 2024, flared into a mass uprising later that month and toppled the Awami League government on August 5 that year, have worryingly remained unresolved 11 months inside the installation of the interim government. This is unfortunate of the interim government, which...
Vice-chancellor of the National University, Professor ASM Amanullah, on Saturday said that only through timely acquisition of skills could students ensure good and attractive job opportunities in the country and abroad and a way to earn more foreign currency...
Jobe Bellingham netted his first Borussia Dortmund goal in a thrilling 4-3 win over Mamelodi Sundowns at the Club World Cup on Saturday.
TENSIONS between Elon Musk and Donald Trump erupted Tuesday as the world's richest man derided the president's key piece of economic legislation in a startling rupture just days after exiting a controversial job in the White House...
THE Bureau of Statistics quarterly update on labour force shows an increase in unemployed people to 2.73 million in the fourth quarter of 2024 compared with 2.4 million in the corresponding period of 2023. The document, made public on May 18, also shows a decline in the overall work force to 69.1 million in the 2024 October-December quarter from 71.1 million...
BANGLADESH is a country with a very high youth demographic, which holds the potential to become a powerful driver of national progress, provided they are effectively nurtured and integrated into development processes. However, despite this promise, a large segment of educated young individuals remains unemployed or underemployed. The government has...
Apparel manufacturing and technology department of BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology organised a day-long job fair, offering promising career opportunities for its students, at the Multipurpose Hall of the university in Dhaka on Tuesday...
No initiative to streamline the quota system in government jobs is in sight after the 2024 changes that abolished women and district quotas, frustrating different sections of people.
Sri Lanka鈥檚 apparel manufacturing industry warned on Thursday that sweeping US tariffs will disrupt the island鈥檚 largest export sector and place thousands of jobs at risk...
The members of erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles, who were dismissed and imprisoned after the 2009 BDR massacre, and their families on Tuesday staged a sit-in at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka to press home their demands including their colleagues鈥� release and job reinstatement...
Imagine graduating from university only to realise your degree has left you unprepared for the job market. You spent years studying outdated courses, using inadequate facilities, and being taught by underqualified faculty. Now, you are one of the 800,000 unemployed university graduates in Bangladesh, struggling to find work. This is not a rare story 鈥� it is the reality for far too many young Bangladeshis...
THE police personnel who lost their job during the 15 years of the authoritarian Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising on August 5, 2024, have held protests for a couple of days seeking their reinstatement in the job. The sacked police personnel also held a protest in front of the police headquarters in Dhaka on January 12 to press home their...
The public reform commission would recommend the abolition of police verification for government job recruitment and other processes.