Tackling Employability of International Students?

Employability remains a major concern for international students from Pakistan. UK institutes, a harbour to the biggest chunk of Pakistani international students face the most challenging dilemma of providing employment opportunities to them under the current visa policies.

BCSIEM Pakistan after two successful years is putting together another Pakistani Employers’ Fair in efforts to re-connect the Pakistani employers and International offices at UK universities; providing opportunities for them to establish long lasting relationships with the Pakistani job sector.

The project aims at bridging the gap between PK employers and international offices and Career Offices at UK universities. The intention is to provide UK universities an opportunity to build long-term relationships with businesses and the community in Pakistan.

The Employers’ Fair will serve as an interface for UK institutes to connect with Pakistani employers and the corporate community. It will serve as an opportunity for them to liaise, establish and sustain long term relationships with businesses in Pakistan to help create promising career prospect for returning Pakistani students and develop linkages that are mutually beneficial.

This initiative will also help in promoting UK education after the recent change in students’ visa policy due to which post study work is no longer permitted in the UK.

What’s in it for the Host University?

  • An exclusive opportunity  to meet  top employers from Pakistan to understand the market’s needs in order to stay abreast with the employment  opportunities in Pakistan
  • An opportunity for International offices to get better understanding of how to guide Pakistani students at their university and to tailor career counselling practices for local adaptation.
  • An opportunity for International offices to improve employment prospects for their students which will help attract potential students in future
  • An opportunity for their returning students to engage and interact with employers ; who would otherwise experience a disconnect  after being away from the country
  • An excellent way to raise awareness amongst your students about job and internship opportunities in Pakistan.

 

Criteria:  The Fair is intended to be held in Four locations in UK and is tentatively scheduled for February 2014. (In 2012, the Fair was hosted by universities in London, Manchester and Scotland )

What we are looking for

  • University to host the event within their campus (to provide venue for fair, accommodation for the delegates and lunch for delegates on the day of the fair)
  • Logistic facilitation and on- campus support for arrangement
  • A partnership fee of GBP 500 per Host University

Important:  This offer is only open to UK institutions in Scotland and preference will be on first-come-first-serve basis.

 

Please email your interest to Maharoop.sheri@britishcouncil.org.pk  before 15 November  2013

As we can accept a limited number of organisations as partners, your request will be given priority on first come first serve basis.