Personal Experiences,Study, Learning Blog of Abu Rashid aka Harun

Career Advice 2015

Options after graduation or any time :

Looking for a  job

Higher study in Bangladesh

Higher study abroad:Going abroad for a degree.

Starting a business.

Starting business after doing job for some years to gather inside information

Doing charitable work: social initiatives like setting up a NGO,do tablig with Tablig jamat, join politics

Trinity College Dublin has a good career site:

http://www.tcd.ie/Careers/students/degree/

Kent University, UK has also an excellent career advice site for international students:

http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/InternationalStudents.htm

another good site

http://targetpostgrad.com/advice/studying-abroad/studying-south-korea

JOB exploration

Many graduate vacancies are open to graduates with degrees in any subject. However, finding out what other graduates in your subject are doing can be a good way of getting ideas. You'll find plenty of resources online to help you do it.

Options with your subjects - Prospect.ac.uk is a very good site that provide what options one has with a specific subject:

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_with_your_subject.htm

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_mechanical_engineering.htm

gradireland.com is similar to prospects

http://gradireland.com/careers-advice/jobs-with-your-degree

job websites:

Bangladesh first and highest visited jobsite is bdjobs.com. It has career resources like cv writing tips and samples, job specific advice,sample cvs. Bdjobs also conducts short training on relevant demanding subjects.

http://www.bdjobs.com/

International job sites with job listing of many countries

Some job sites has country specific version or provide multi country job listing. For example, monster.com

http://www.monster.co.uk/

For country specific job site, look into Alexa ranking of websites for a country. Usually the highly visited job site of that country comes up among the top ranked websites of the country. Generally highly visited site means it means provide good value or quality is high.

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries

For example, rozee.pk comes up as no 51 in the Alexa ranking of websites for Pakistan.Further, rozee has sister sites for middle eastern coutries.

http://www.rozee.pk/

More on country specific career guide: country guides for

international students

This series offers practical advice to international students who

have chosen to return to their home country to look for work.

Each country guide includes key facts about current trends and

jobs, advice about seeking employment, hints and tips for

making a successful application, and helpful information

sources.

There are profiles for Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Hong

Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Russia, Singapore,

Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and the USA

For links to these profiles, see www.kent.ac.uk/careers

/sitesint.htm

GradLink country specific career websites

These careers websites are designed specifically for

students/graduates from China, India, Africa and

Malaysia at HE institutions right across the UK. They

include:

Careers for International Students http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/InternationalStudents.htm

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UK www.gradlinkuk.com online careers service for

international students and graduates studying across the

UK.

China www.gradlinkchina.com

India www.gradlinkindia.com

Malaysia www.gradlinkmalaysia.com

Africa www.gradlinkafrica.com

They contain

Graduate jobs-boards

Profiles of 100+ employers – where employers provide

latest graduate vacancies, give advice, link to their social

media etc.

Finding salary information: look into govt jobs circular as they mention salaries. Also international org like IUT, UN provides salary information in their ad. Besiders, there are some websites like glassdoor that provide salary information anonymously. Search in Google with keywords like salary survey,salary in unilver etc.

http://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/index.htm

Networking or referral for job finding:

nearly 80 percent of the vacancies are filled up by referrals. So it is very important to find referral or do networking. And in networking weak tie has better chance to land you job. Because your strong tie has almost similar network like you or if they find definitely they would let you know about the job.

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/strong-and-weak-ties-why-your-weak-ties-matter

https://socialcapital.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/why-weak-ties-are-strong-for-job-searches/

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http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_mechanical_engineering.htm

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_business_and_management_studies.htm

Job market situation and current trends:

For USA, you may look into labour market survey by US Govt.

For other countries, look into different job and career sites like gradlink, prospects.ac.uk, targetjobs etc to obtain such job market scenario and current trends information. You may look into career segments  of prominent universities of a country to get such information though usually such information are not available there.

Higher study

First hand information: collect first information from your friends, relatives, alumni who studied abroad for a specific institution or country.

Look for iutians studying abroad. There is a yahoo group of IUTIANS. Become a member and search relevant posting or ask for information:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/iutians/info

Almost all major universities where Bangladeshi students go, you will find Bangladeshi students association. The office bearers of such association would be very helpful. You may look into club and society page of the university to find such association or just search in Google. Besides, there are Islamic societies in most major universities. You may contact with them too.

http://bsa-stuttgart.org/index.php/7-main-articles/1-bangladesh-student-association-stuttgart

http://bsaagweb.de/

GRE Center Bangladesh runs a very good website that contains information about GRE ,TOEFL ,IELTS preparation, contacting with professors, scholarships and all major aspects of higher study venture. It is a must read. By the by, the site is in Bangla, so those who cant read Bangla may use google translator.

http://www.grecenter.org/wp/

Blog has now a days loads of personal experience regarding studying abroad. You may check in somewhereinblog. Ragib Hasan, now a faculty member in USA, has some very good write-ups on higher study USA, writing statement of purpose etc. You may find his write-ups in somewhereinblog. Further, he has published a few books on how to research, self development, mathemetics. You may collect those books through rokomari.com where payment could be made upon delivery. Now you could use Unicode bangle search in Google. To write bangle you may use Ovro which you could write Bangla in English letters and it converts it to Unicode bangle.

Scholarship information:

Collect information from Alumni.

Go to different countries embassies , prefereably their cultural or educational wing to know about different options. For example, British council, Gothe institute for Germany, EMK centre for usa etc.

Phd and masters studentship(scholarships) in UK and Irealnd information:

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/

Scholarships in Ireland

http://www.careersportal.ie/parents/parents_categories.php?ed_sub_cat_id=53&menu_parent_id=13&parent=13#Scholarships%20and%20Award%20Schemes

country specific scholarship information:

http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/international/europe/belgium/ku-leuven

http://www.masterstudies.co.uk/news/Four-Top-Reasons-Why-You-Should-Study-in-Belgium-357

South Korea scholarship

http://www.scholarships-links.com/field/Mechanical%20Engineering-Scholarships.html

scholarships in UK and Ireland

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/

Some good Bangladesh based websites for higher study information

http://www.eduicon.com/Foreign_Study/

http://www.eduicon.com/Scholarship/

http://www.lekhaporabd.com/archives/category/higher_education

Private consultancy firms : you may contact with them for information. However, get information about their authencity before going. In generally, if an agency posts advertisement frequently in newspapers or social media, it may be assumed that they may have reasonably good information and capability. Also lok intor their websties before consulting them.

Scandanevian

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Steps

They are the best for Sweden

– ELTS Requirement: 6.5

– No IELTS for BUET, NSU, East West, AIUB, Southeast and some other University for PG

– No IELTS for ‘A’ Levels and ‘O’ Level Students

STEPS

Syed Grand Centre (7th Floor),

Plot: 89, Road: 28, Sector: 7

Uttara, Dhaka

Bangladesh

Telephone Number: +88 028922993

E-mail Address: info@steps.com.bd

Website URL: http://www.steps.com.bd

http://www.guidebd.com/education/consulting/steps-consultancy-organization/

@thier website is very good. It provides information like why study in korea.

For Scandenevian SA Associate is also good

http://www.saavisa.com/

Australia

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Edu aid

http://www.eduaid.net/

Very good site with easy to use questin and answer for each countries.

Canada,UK,Malaysia,Germany

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BSB Global

@it has a detailed downloadable informatin guide that contains corses of different countries with relevant information.

Links of some consultancy firms

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http://www.guidebd.com/education/consulting/steps-consultancy-organization/

Writing CV, Forwarding letters and sample CV, forwarding letters

Good samples and guidelines are provided for writing CV and forwarding letter in bdjobs.com:

You may also look into tcd career site, Kent career site, quintcareerrs.com for such guideelines and samples of CV and forwarding letters. Further, these sites also provide tips on answering interview questions.

Transferrable skills (i.e. Soft skills):

Involve in clubs, societies, sports, volunteering and gather some important transferrable skills.

Experience Gathering:

Experience is very important to the employers as these would say that you could do the work properly.

May go for paid or unpaid internship

May volunteer a relevant organisaiton

Arrange one day job exploration tour by paying money or free

http://www.quintcareers.com/next_after_college.html

It’s a very good career advice site.