Join us at the SME Fair in Lahore

BrightSpyre is proud to be part of the LCCI SME fair being held in Lahore on May 14 and 15 at the LCCI Building. The Main objective of the fair is to provide an opportunity for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to display their products and services to the potential new customers.

Mr. Rehmatullah Javed, Chairman LCCI Standing Committee on SMEs stated that SMEs play a vital role in the economy of Pakistan. “SMEs are the largest employer in the country and contribute up to 75% of industrial production and 60% towards exports to the national economy.” Mr. Javed further stated that the SMEs are the critical backbone for the numerous multinationals and mega corporations of Pakistan who outsource or purchase raw material and services from these organizations.

United Nations (UNIDO) states that over 97% of all businesses in Pakistan fall under the category of SMEs. And there are potentially over 2 million such enterprises all across the nation. BrightSpyre feels that this is an important segment of our economy and therefore has resolved to closely work and assist them in acquiring quality human resource for their industry.

The fair is expected to attract a large number of entrepreneurs, international dignitaries, Ministers, high-level government officials, representatives of well-reputed business organizations and multinationals, and students from various institutions all over the city.

The SME Fair is organized by Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the following address
Date: May 14 – 15, 2008
Time and Date: 10 am till 8pm
Address: LCCI Building 11-Shara-e-Aiwane Tijarat Lahore. Pakistan.
UAN: 111-222-499
Fax: 042-6368854

FAST on Board

Continuously progressing BrightSpyre, Today 24th of April, 2008 has launched a nationwide Job board (http://nu.jobboard.com.pk) for National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences FAST graduates & Alumni. FAST NU is the second university after GIKI for which BrightSpyre has created a platform for students to access jobs under one podium, posted by different companies all over Pakistan. This Job Board was inaugurated by Rector Dr. Amir Muhammed and Director Islamabad FAST Dr. Aftab Maharoof on the occasion of Open house at FAST Islamabad Campus. The purpose of Open house event was an interaction between industry and graduating students from all disciplines on the possibilities of employment and to explore the potential collaboration with faculty in research and development activities. This Job Board will further help graduates/Alumni of FAST in exploring multiple job opportunities and bridging the gap between industry and academia.

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".

Event in Pictures

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.

• Event in Pictures

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.

Event in Pictures

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.

Another Success Story - Qamber Ali

The vision of BrightSpyre is to provide sustainable employment opportunities for people in the Pakistan, who face certain employment challenges while seeking for a job, whether they are fresh or experienced professionals. Read another success story of BrightSpyre in higher level management.

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I have been very pleased with the standard of services BrightSpyre have provided during the process of hiring with highly professional and skilled team. Though I belong to the technical field and its very hard to find out such career oriented jobs in most of the available job portals in Pakistan, but BrightSpyre has done a great entrepreneurial effort in terms of providing me a platform to get my field related and career enhancing position. Now I am part of Zoomio International as "Director of Development".

One of the most impressive thing that I came across was BrightSpyre constant communication and keeping me in loop from the initial phase of interview till the final selection. I would say that BrightSpyre is one of the best place to find middle management to higher level positions among all Pakistan job portals. Also I would like recommend BrightSpyre to anyone looking for a job in technology sector and also in other areas.

Its really Appreciated and thanks again for the great service !!

Qamber Ali
Director of Development
Zoomio International-Islamabad
Job Link: Development Manager

Feedback from Qandil Ali

BrightSpyre Testimonials:
We have received great appreciation from many of you and realize that others would also like to see and hear that people really do get hired and that BrightSpyre is part of that success. We will include few success stories in our BrightSpyre Testimonial Section.

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I have done my bachelors in Computer Sciences from Comsats Islamabad in year 2006 and soon after my graduation i started looking for a job in order to start my professional career. Though i have registered myself with several job portals and received hundreds of job alerts too but i was never considered for a single interview or shortlisted. Than i registered BrightSpyre after the recommendation of my friend which later prove a right decision and now i am a happy Employee at Cybernet and working there as " Corporate Support Engineer"

I would like to mention here that without the assistance of BrightSpyre it would not have been so easy to find a dream job where you can enhance your abilities and skills. So I congratulate BrightSpyre team for helping me out in finding a job and making it a success for me.

My heartiest & Warmest wishes to BrightSpyre team, especially HR department.

Keep doing the good work!

Qandil Ali
Corporate Support Engineer
Cybernet Islamabad

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/).

Testimonial - Ejaz Ahmed

BrightSpyre Testimonials:
We have received great appreciation from many of you and realize that others would also like to see and hear that people really do get hired and that BrightSpyre is part of that success. We will include few success stories in our BrightSpyre Testimonial Section.
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Being a professional student of ACCA I was conscious about a career oriented and rewarding job in strong standing organization. Comparatively smaller job market and direct hiring from top four CA firms made me even more scared about a decent job. Luckily I got registered myself with BrightSpyre and forgot as I was not much hopeful. But I was surprised to got first interview call for a post of "Internal Audit" in of a reputable cement company of Pakistan. All procedure of interview till the offer letter was competed within 15 days and now i am glad to be a part of professional team because of Brightspyre.

God Bless BrightSpyre Team!

Ejaz Ahmed
Islamabad

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 participates in ITCN Asia 2007

BrightSpyre participated in this year’s ITCN Asia (Aug 9 -11, 2007) held at the Expo Center in Karachi. The event has grown into the largest IT, Telecom & Media extravaganza of Pakistan. This year ITCN Asia was attended by the region's most influential business professionals, entrepreneurs and policy makers.

BrightSpyre was at the forefront of the event by promoting its services to job seekers as well as potential employers in Pakistan. Please do check out the event in pictures at the BrightSpyre stall at ITCN Asia.

PSEB Joins Hands with BrightSpyre in Launching IT Job Board

On August 9 2007, BrightSpyre in collaboration with PSEB launched Pakistan's first Job Board focused on the IT Industry talent pool.

http://pseb.jobboard.com.pk

“Talent acquisition is the first step in talent management.” Yusuf Husain, Managing Director said at the launching ceremony.

“PSEB and Brightspyre have joined hands together to help the IT industry by upgrading their talent acquisition to international standards besides providing help to the foreign companies in acquiring talent pool directly from Pakistan.” Added the Managing Director at the launching ceremony of the portal at ITCN Asia in Karachi.

PAHSA-BrightSpyre Career Fair Lucky Draw Winners

BrightSpyre announces the winners of the lucky draw held at the PASHA-BrightSpyre Career Fair in Rawalpindi this July. The winners for prizes are :

• Mr. Waqas Asif
• Ms. Nosheen Zaidi
• Mr. Ahsan Masood
• Ms. Nighat Iram
• Mr. Tanvir Ahmad

For more information about the lucky draw please feel free to contact BrightSpyre office. The career fair was a tremendous success BrightSpyre aims to regularly hold such events nationwide.

PASHA-BrightSpyre host a successful Career Fair

BrightSpyre-PASHA hosted an extremely successful and well managed career fair at Rawalpindi. "This is the first time, there has been such a large career fair for job seekers in the city of Rawalpindi", mentioned, Faisal Chohan, from BrightSpyre. Over 3,000 job seekers filtered throughout the day to meet with prospective employers that included companies like Si3, Wateen Telecom, Buraq Telecom, Orgoo, Cisco, Green and White and many others.

There were numerous sessions arranged specifically for young graduates. This included, career advice in various fields including, Resume building, Software engineering, Telecom sector, BPO-Call center and many others.

There was also a separate section where job seekers could get one-on-one career advice through councilors provided by Green & White (www.greenwhite.org).Overall, the event was tremendously successful. BrightSpyre also received hundreds of visitors throughout the day at their booth. At the same time, they interviewed and provided guidance to a lot of potential job seekers.

"The candidates that we interviewed were not only for our own internal hiring, but also for our customers who had requested to seek out good candidates for them." mentioned, Ahmad Jawad, from BrightSpyre.

BrightSpyre is especially thankful to Jehan Ara (PASHA), MAJU Students (Mohammad Ali Jinnah University) and Osama Hashmi's Green and White (www.greenandwhite.org) for making this event extremely successful.

For more information, please click on the links below.

• See the event in Pictures
• View the Blog of Jehan Ara about the Job Fair in Rawalpindi
  

PASHA-BrightSpyre Career Fair In Rawalpindi/Islamabad

BrightSpyre-PASHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) Career Fair is now scheduled to be held on July 8, 2007.

Time and Date: July 8, 2007 (10:00am - 8:00pm)
Location: Pearl Continental Hotel, Rawalpindi

A large number of companies and over 3,500 jobs seekers have already registered to attend. This makes it one of the largest such event in Rawalpindi area.

BrightSpyre will be holding career counseling and on the spot interviews for potential job seekers at the event. This is one of a kind event in Islamabad/Rawalpindi region to assist professionals get better jobs.

Please click here for more information about this event.