BrightSpyre Launches GIKI Job Board

BrightSpyre on Thursday, 10th of April, 2008 has launched Pakistan’s first ever university Job board (http://giki.jobboard.com.pk) for Ghulam Ishaque Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology (GIKI) graduates. GIKI Job Board was officially inaugurated during "Open House" event by NWFP Governor Mr. Awais Ahmed Ghani. This Job Board was result of combine efforts of BrightSpyre and GIKI Career Cell who took the initiative and introduced this new concept in academia. This Job Board will offer GIKI students and alumni’s & employers direct contact with each other and will also provide easy & quick access to companies to hire fresh graduates from GIKI. This Job Board will also be highly beneficial for the employers from all over Pakistan, as they can easily target GIKI fresh graduates from all disciplines.

In Addition this job board will create a huge opportunity for graduates and graduating students to search jobs under one platform with more awareness about the market trends. BrightSpyre will help in leveraging the relationship between university and employers’, increasing the access to these candidates for employers as BrightSpyre is highly motivated to provide the University recruiting segment in GIKI. BrightSpye has always set their own trends and standards with continuous expansion and growth in Local & International market. Although BrightSpyre has started university job board for first time in Pakistan but has a vast global experience in Job Boards. BrightSpyre has its own Product with the name of personforce (www.personforce.com) in USA. In a very short period of time BrightSpyre has gain a vital place in US academic institutions and it is now highly regarded among the top online location for recruiters in the USA to hire the best talent from prestigious Universities like Harvard, Standford, Cornell and Yale.

Job Board URL: giki.jobboard.com.pk
This news is covered in Green & White and PASHA official website "PASHA News".

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Career Counselling for IT graduates in Kohat University

Education in IT has grown tremendously; Kohat University of Science & Technology is playing a vital role in grooming its 200 IT graduate students and getting them prepared for challenging global IT industry.

BrightSpyre is expanding its program to all parts of country and playing its major role to provide industry feedback into the academia. In the continuation of its programs BrightSpyre.com conducted its career grooming seminar in Kohat University of Science and Technology on Friday 28th of March, 2008.

BrightSpyre had a career counseling session and resume building workshop with the students of KUST. This session was attended by more than 200 students with faculty members including Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Lutfullah Kakakhel. BrightSpye had a productive discussion with the students regarding current market trends and technologies in which students also shared about their views and perception about industry.

The students showed keen interest in asking how they can apply for jobs online; what are the skill sets required by companies; how they can find internship opportunities; how to compare companies before joining organizations for jobs; how fresh graduates can be hired without having any experience.

In a statement, Vice Chancellor appreciated the initiative taken by BrightSpyre and termed this event as a very healthy & fruitful activity for students of KUST. BrightSpyre is the only recruiting company in Pakistan who has such an extensive university outreach program and first one to visit Kohat-NWFP.

This year, BrightSpyre University Outreach program is scheduled in more than 30 universities from all over Pakistan featuring career guidance, career counseling, workshops, academic seminars and interviews on spot for current open positions. We have helped thousands of graduates and employers make employment connections over the years as we make every effort to provide flawless customer service, promote our programs comprehensively and make success as job seeking and employment clients our highest priority.

BrightSpyre team is grateful for the efforts of Vice Chancellor, faculty members and students who were indeed a great help in organizing such a remarkable and successful event.

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Startup Insiders Session #8

Once again, BrightSpyre is proud to associate itself with Startup Insider Sessions which have become one of the most talked and heavily attended event for the Pakistani IT industry. Already seven such sessions have been held this year in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. This April 4th, 2008 Islamabad will have its third session of the year.

Startup Insider has a simple philosophy as explained by Osama Hashmi on Greenwhite.org, “A lot of bright, energetic and passionate entrepreneurs have great ideas but want to figure out how to take their brilliant idea and convert it into a business”.

We recommend everyone interested in Entrepreneurship and venturing out on their own to attend. Here are the details of the event:

Theme: Starting Up: the first essential steps
Date: April 4th 2008 (5:30pm – 9:00pm)
Location: NIIT Campus, Chaklala III, Rawalpindi (http://www.niit.edu.pk)

Please register yourself for the event at the following web address:
http://www.niit.edu.pk/Seminars_workshops/pages/startup/index.php

And get more information related to the event at Jehan Ara's blog:
http://jehanara.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/good-news-for-startups-in-islamabad-si-8-on-april-4/

BrightSpyre.com Powers job boards technology at Techcrunch and Venturebeat

The BrightSpyre (www.BrightSpyre.com) partnered job board “Personforce” is now the official job board for TechCrunch and Venturebeat - two of the biggest blogs covering web 2.0 startups out of silicon valley. To put this in perspective, what Wall Street Journal is for businesses and publicly traded companies, TechCrunch is for startups and successful enterprises in the information technology domain worldwide. This success for Personforce is in the footsteps of college recruitment domain, where it is already the top choice for colleges including Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Berkley among others.

With the success of Personforce, the footprint of BrightSpyre is now truly global and it continues to be the largest job portal in the country. BrightSpyre success can be further assessed by the phenomenal growth rate that it has achieved in Pakistan which includes almost half a million unique job seekers from over 130 towns and cities of Pakistan. The system has received and processed over 1.5 million applications for jobs in the country. BrightSpyre job hunt and management system is currently used by leading companies not only in Pakistan but globally including in North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, South Asia and Far East to recruit and manage the best talent.

BrightSpyre.com is the largest job portal in Pakistan with a leadership position in online recruitment for last 6 years; is a wholly own brand of Cogilent Solutions, an ISO 9001-2000 certified company. It has been operating successfully since 2002 in Pakistan.

The news is covered in Pashanews.org and PSEB official website.


For more information please contact,

Usman Bangash
Manager Business Development
Contact: +92 51 2871173
email: sales@brightspyre.com
http://www.BrightSpyre.com

A Catalyst Providing Multiple Opportunities

BrightSpyre the largest job portal in Pakistan has provided career opportunities to 10,000+ candidates in Pakistan and abroad. BrightSpyre.com users are sharing their success stories now. Here is one of the success story of a candidate hired through BrightSpyre.

Hina Akhtar
Communication Specialist
The Competitiveness Support Fund (CSF)
Job Link:Communication Specialist

I was working in a multinational company for some years within the field of Communication and Community Development, and although I was content with working for a well reputed company, I started feeling an urge to explore my opportunities in the job market. I wanted a role through which I could further refine my professional as well as personal development, but I had no idea where to look. This urge made me start looking for a platform or catalyst which would enable me to view optional organizations and work scope and give me the sense of job competition and updated requirements within my field of expertise.

I started surfing on the net and viewing the job vacancies, when I came across the website of BrightSpyre. I read about their online hiring system which made me submit my CV online. The BrightSpyre site became a regular hit on my daily surfing and I was amazed to see the vast list of job opportunities, which were all collected under one “roof”. One day I saw the vacancy of a Communication Specialist. I read the comprehensive work details, which contained a role which was in line with my current experience as well as providing more learning and exposure within the field of Communication. I immediately applied for the job without any expectations of a response, but to my great surprise, it was only a matter of a few days before I received a call from the BrightSpyre team. I was very impressed to see the professional way through which BrightSpyre dealt with the potential candidates for a job, and I was kept in constant loop of the interview development. I was lucky to get the job and although it has only been a month since I joined my new job, I feel I made the right decision of joining them as the exposure and learning I am getting here is a great basis for my future career development. I personally believe that one should never stop learning and constantly challenge one self for improvements. We should always pursue opportunities in life, which contribute to our continuous and sustainable career development. My interaction with BrightSpyre and their professionalism has developed a great trust in me that life is full of opportunities – you just need to grab them using the right platform and support.

I recommend everyone to register themselves on the BrightSpyre site and trust this professional team to help you grab the opportunity of your life time.

Best of luck to you all!

Hina Akhtar

BrightSpyre Participation at Startup Insiders

BrightSpyre participated in Start up insider on Thursday 31^st of January, 2008 which was organized by PASHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) and Green & White. This event was successfully hosted and well managed by LMKR Islamabad with the attendance of more than 100 peoples. The main purpose of this discussion was to encourage the innovative ideas from young professionals from different walks of life and advise them as how to be a successful entrepreneur, which involves the practice of starting a new business in response to identifying certain opportunities.

From BrightSpyre this event was attended by:

• Atif Mumtaz

• Faisal Chohan

• Usman Bangash

• Aftab Alam

• Muhammad Abid Azam
  

During the event Atif Mumtaz & Faisal Chohan also discussed about their experience of starting with an idea and converting it to a successful reality, as BrightSpyre elevated throughout the years after launched in 2002, which now rates as Pakistan’s largest and most prestigious job portal. They also gave few very useful advises to young audience as what should be their approach toward entrepreneurship and how to move things forward from an early innovation phase to a fully practical implementation.

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Join us at Startup Insider Session

PASHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) and Green & White are organizing Startup Insider Sessions all over Pakistan. The aim and purpose of these sessions is connecting successful businesses with brilliant young people who would like to pursue a career in entrepreneurship. As Green & White puts it on their own blogsite “A lot of bright, energetic and passionate entrepreneurs have great ideas but want to figure out how to take their brilliant idea and convert it into a business”.

These sessions are being held once a month in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. Already the sessions in Karachi and Lahore were well attended. We hope to see a similar turnout at Islamabad session as well.

BrightSpyre (Cogilent Solutions) is also one of the companies that has been invited at the inaugural session in Islamabad. We will be represented by the co-founders of the company namely, Mr. Faisal Chohan and Atif Mumtaz who will talk about the journey that the company took from an idea to reality. The complete panel list includes:

• Ovais Ashraf, CEO, Trivor Software / Trango
• Atif Mumtaz & Faisal Chohan, CEO Cogilent Solution / BrightSpyre
• Faizan Buzdar - CEO, Scrybe Corp.
• Osama Hashmi, CEO, CDF Software
• Zahid Mirza, Netsol Technologies
• Saeed Qadri, CEO, Voxel Communications
• Faisal Qureshi, CEO, Kolachi Advanced Technologies
• Jehan Ara, President, PASHA

• Time: 6 – 9 pm
• Date: January 31, 2008
• Location: LMKR Office, 3rd Floor, Evacuee Trust Complex, Aga Khan Road, F-5, Islamabad, Pakistan
  

Details of the event can be found on Green & White blogsite.