Career planning workshop for BD nationals held in the Hague

Embassy of Bangladesh, the Hague in association with BrainChain, organised a career planning workshop for Bangladeshi students and job seekers on Saturday.

BrainChain is an association of Bangladeshi professionals who are successfully working in Dutch companies.

To prepare Bangladesh origin students better, share the challenges and opportunities of the Dutch job market and firsthand experience of facing job interviews, the Embassy organized the workshop for the first time.

Every year a good number of students come to different universities of the Netherlands for higher studies, said the Embassy on Sunday, reports UNB.

After successful completion of study, they get one year grace period to secure a job in the Netherlands which will lead to visa extension and successful continuation of the job for couple of years will ultimately lead to the citizenship.

Embassy officials, members of the Embassy family, BrainChain members and 13 Bangladesh nationals, who are preparing themselves for job, participated in the workshop.

Members of BrainChain guided them to prepare themselves as potential candidates for job market.

Ambassador Sheikh Mohammed Belal thanked BrainChain for its trend setting example of "giving back" to the motherland and hoped that they will continue to include innovation in "our innovation" room in the Embassy.

"Our ultimate goal is to see our students are back to our country and contribute towards our nation building utilising the new found insights in the Netherlands," he said.