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

BrightSpyre signs MoU with Microsoft

A memorandum of understanding has been signed between BrightSpyre and Microsoft on Wednesday 19th December, 2007 represented by CTO Ahmed Jawad (BrightSpyre) and Country Head Ahmed Kamal (Microsoft). After the continuous negotiations from two parties through which they have successfully identified certain potential collaboration projects and to establish the framework for developing these concepts further together with a road map that will hopefully lead to agreement on the appropriate means for their delivery and implementation.

“This agreement marks as a huge step forward for us while collaborating with Microsoft on these projects and we are very excited to get this opportunity to bring new values and trends in the market” said BrightSpyre CTO Mr. Ahmed Jawad.

In addition both have agreed to do partnership in Microsoft student to business program by engaging with selected and reputable universities to co-manage career guidance events by leveraging the presence of Microsoft Student Partners on campuses.

BrightSpyre and Microsoft will also be in partnership on MSDNAA and IT Academy partnership pilot at local universities. BrightSpyre will be organizing career counselling and career guidance events as joint venture with Microsoft in different universities of Pakistan which will result in huge impact in bringing awareness and exposure among students and universities.

BrightSpyre is still Pakistan's best place and preferred website to find jobs in Pakistan. It is wholly owned and operated by Cogilent Solutions, an ISO-9001-2000 certified company.

BrightSpyre Launches MySpyre.pk

Pakistan's fastest growing email service

On the joyous occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, BrightSpyre launches yet another value-added service for its loyal users. Starting today, all BrightSpyre members can enjoy"MySpyre" (http://www.myspyre.pk/) which is a comprehensive e-mail service with lots of features and extra services.

• Its free, easy and simple to use
• Get 6000 MB of free email Space
• Email accounts are safe, private and secure
• Complete Spam and Virus Protection
• Contacts, Calender, Chat and other tools

This is another milestone achieved by BrightSpyre and it continues to be the largest job portal in Pakistan. BrightSpyre now has striking figures of of 4 Million hits per month and a resume bank of 400,000+ from all over Pakistan and abroad with 450+ companies on the board (http://www.brightspyre.com/).

400,000 and Counting

BrightSpyre continues to grow at an unprecedented pace and has achieved yet another milestone in its short history since its launch in Pakistan in 2002. This past year (the first ten months of 2007), it signed up well over 100,000 unique new job seekers who have flocked to BrightSpyre to find better jobs. Thus, swelling the unique job seeker community on BrightSpyre to 400,000.

“This is the third year in a row, that BrightSpyre has registered over 100,000 unique new users in one calendar year.” boasts Usman Bangash, Manager Sales and Marketing. “It goes onto show that BrightSpyre is still the first choice job portal for all job seekers and employers alike.”

BrightSpyre, owned and operated by Cogilent Solutions, is also credited with initiating and creating the professional online recruitment business in Pakistan.

“Before BrightSpyre, organizations used to rely on newspapers and references”, says Ahmad Jawad, CTO of BrightSpyre. “We not only changed the market, but created a whole new segment within the recruitment sector with our web portal.”

In the past three years, over 1 million jobs applications were submitted through BrightSpyre for various jobs in Pakistan.

"If every resume consists of at least two pages, then BrightSpyre has saved over 2 million pieces of paper by giving users an electronic alternative to apply for jobs and not waste paper over and over again. Thus helping create a "greener" Pakistan." explains Usman Bangash.

BrightSpyre is still the only jobs portal in Pakistan that is ISO-9001-2000 certified and has recruited certified CISSP (Certified Internet Security Professionals) to protect the privacy of its users.

These facts and statistics once again prove that BrightSpyre is still the leading jobs portal in Pakistan.

BrightSpyre Protected by Certified Security Professional

BrightSpyre's now boasts a unique talent in Pakistan. Ahmad Jawad, CTO, BrightSpyre is now one of the unique group of 25 Pakistanis who are CISSP (Certified Information System Security Professional) certified Professionals. This exam is managed and undertaken by (ISC)². It is the world's leading authority on information system security. Currently there are around 48,000 certified such professionals around the world. It is a further recognition of the fact that BrightSpyre continues to hire the best talent and continues to maintain a very high standard when it comes to handling data of its prestigious clients.

The role of any CISSP in an organization is:

• Strategic overview of Information Security needs.
• Develop/maintain an Information Security Program.
• Provide advice regarding new information Security technologies.
• Assurance of compliance with regulations.

Under Jawad, BrightSpyre is working deligently to further improve the standard of security and reliability of the largest Job Portal of Pakistan.

"At any given day, there can be as many as 35,000 unique visitors to our web portal. This number is likely to increase to 100,000 daily visitors by the end of 2007." explains Ahmad Jawad.

"This exponential growth requires radical changes in the way the whole Portal is setup. Security of the system needs to be carefully evaluated whenever there are changes in the software or hardware setup of any application. This certification enabled me to further polish my skills and gave me access to a privileged club of Security professionals worldwide. I will bring all that information to BrightSpyre and set a new standard of service." With such ambitions and goals, Jawad hopes to bring about a major change in how security is perceived in Pakistan.

BrightSpyre is owned and operated by Cogilent Solutions which is headquartered in Islamabad, Pakistan.

ISO-9001-2000 Certification Awarded to Cogilent Solutions

Cogilent Solutions, the parent company of popular job search and management portal, BrightSpyre.com achieved another distinction when it received an ISO-9001-2000 certification this March.

“There are only 100 IT companies in Pakistan with this certification and we are now one of them” explained Mr. Faisal Chohan, CEO, Cogilent Solutions. “And we are, so far, the only human resource related IT company with this distinction.” This distinction makes BrightSpyre the only jobs portal in Pakistan with a certification. Further confirming the credentials of the organization and its commitment to job seekers and employers alike.

BVQI, the certification authority, performed the Quality Management Audit and assessed its standards in the Turnkey Solutions provider for fields of Human Resources and Network Solutions. The process of certification was initiated in mid 2005 and completed by January 2006.

BrightSpyre wins Shell Tameer Award

BrightSpyre brings in Second Place Award for Cogilent Solutions in Shell Tameer Young Entrepreneur of the Year Competition


The Shell Company boasts of over 100 years presence in the Indo-Pakistan Sub-Continent proving to be a key player in bolstering the economy by productively helping to utilize natural energy resources and providing much needed jobs to people. However, along with its key financial function, the Company has also been very vitally present in the social sector by promoting its development both through technical and educational resources.
Along with 25 other public service programmes that the Company runs per year, it also initiated Shell LiveWIRE International, a unique programme with an out reach to 23 countries. The LiveWIRE programme was launched as Shell Tameer in Pakistan and has been successfully running in collaboration with partners SMEDA (Operational) and IBA (Developmental) respectively. The purpose being to boost the youth by helping them to acquire skills and enhance existing ones in order that they may apply themselves to finding the right path towards their future careers; not only in the cities at Business School level, but also in remote areas through workshops and vocational training institutes. Suffice to say, this has effectively changed lives of over 300 students (in Pakistan alone) and 10,000 people in general. This is Phase I of the programme.

The Second phase is the ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ Awards given in recognition of brave entrepreneurial spirit. The Programme selects ten outstanding individuals (not necessarily from/beneficiary of Phase I) whose companies are chosen through a series of tough regional and local competitions. After selection, the competitors come together under one roof from all over the country to showcase their businesses for judging purposes and on the basis of original initiative, utilization of resources (financial, human, raw material), successful running and focused enthusiasm and spirit, the winners rise above. These are the very reasons why Brightspyre was entered and it shone through.

The Second Shell Tameer Awards for ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ took place on Tuesday, 14th February, 2004 at Avari Hotel, Lahore. The Chief Guest was Chaudhery Pervaiz Elahi, Chief Minister of The Punjab. Atif Mumtaz, Managing Director and CEO represented Cogilent Solutions. By winning second place, the Company was commended for its originality in HR (Human Resource) Development by providing an alternative, cost effective service which is well on its way to becoming the future of the HR Management process. This is a unique award, more so since Cogilent Solutions was established not so far back in the year 2002 and BrightSpyre was launched in August of the same year. Since its launch, the Company has been climbing securely and productively towards the fulfillment of their vision and has been making inroads all over Pakistan, business potential wise. The entire dynamic team behind the Company and its service’s success must be commended for their hard work, team spirit and belief in themselves. We wish them all the very best and hope to see them achieving much more in the coming years.