SWABI: A two-day ‘open house and career fair’ concluded at the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology on Friday, providing an ideal platform to the leading industrialists and multinational companies to judge the talented students and hire them keeping in mind their industrial requirements.

Syed Ali Abbas Hasani, Managing Director, Pakistan Software Export Board, was the chief guest on the occasion.

Engr Jehangir Bashar, Rector GIK Institute, Prof Jameel-un-Nabi, Pro-Rector (academics) and Sardar Aminullah Khan, Pro-Rector (administration & finance), deans, heads of departments, officials of companies and students also graced the gathering.

Over 70 multinational and national companies and their representatives participated in the ‘open house’.

The organisers said it was one of the major events for the students who would complete their BS programme in diverse disciplines of engineering and management sciences till end of May 2019, marking their entry into the job market.

The students displayed final year research projects which attracted industrialists and representatives of companies who conducted their interviews for hiring them.

The academia said about 120 research projects were displayed by final year students on the occasion.

The entrepreneurs met with students, inspected their displayed projects and asked questions about the vitality of their research work. The ‘open house’ also enabled the students to know about potential employers in the industry and new technological and scientific trends and challenges in the industry.

The participants said universities should produce students according to needs of industry, and the entrepreneurs should provide financial assistance to universities to conduct result-oriented research for development of industrial sector.

WORKERS’ RIGHTS: Gadoon Labour Federation at a meeting on Friday vowed to work for rights of workers in the Gadoon Amazai Industrial Estate. The meeting was presided over by federation’s president Noor Mohammad Jadooon.

On the occasion, Sher Azam Jadoon, the federation’s general secretary, said all workers and leaders had been requested to participate in the Labour Day rally on May 1.

Published in Dawn, April 13th, 2019