Bdjobs.com, the country’s first online job portal, yesterday announced awards for seven best employers in Bangladesh to recognise their contribution in the economy and job creation.
The winners of the “Bdjobs.com Best Employer Award 2010” are HSBC in banking, Grameenphone in telecommunication, BRAC in development, Unilever in FMCG, ATN Bangla in media, Graphic People in IT and H&M in garments and textile.
“The main objective of the award programme is to encourage all types of organisations in the country for benchmarking their employee management and development policies and practices,” said AKM Fahim Mashroor, chief executive officer of the company, at a press conference at Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka.
Around 4,500 users of the job portal participated in an online perception survey conducted for the duration of six months from July to December 2010 to select seven best employers in the selected seven industries based on their importance in the national economy and overall employment generation.
Bdjobs.com that launched the bi-annual best employer award in 2008 has 5,000 registered employers and is linked with more than 300 global recruiting agents. They can supply manpower to the global market, free of cost.
Around 30,000 jobseekers visit the job site a day and nearly 1.5 lakh people have been employed through the site in the last 10 years. Of the people employed, 1,500 now work abroad.
During the survey, the participants gave their choice on the best employer against five pre-defined perception areas: work environment, management culture and practices, career prospects for the employees, competitive salary and other benefits and brand image of the organisation, said Ahmad Islam Muqsit, director of Bdjobs.com.
Muqsit said they will hand over a crest to the representatives of the winning organisations by the next month.
Later, they also gave away a mobile set each to the 10 participants of the survey following a lottery.
Courtesy of The Daily Star
