Avisheik
SENIOR MEMBER
- Joined
- Mar 21, 2011
- Messages
- 2,770
- Reaction score
- 1
- Country
- Location
Two lakh get jobs abroad in five months
A total of 201,758 Bangladeshi job seekers have been recruited by the overseas employers in the last five months of the year, defying speculations of crisis in job markets in the midst of political unrest in Arab world.
With 47,825 new recruitments in May 2011 alone, the total number of overseas job seekers during the January-May period was 17 per cent higher than the number of recruitment recorded during the corresponding period of 2010, latest compiled data revealed.
In fact, May 2011 recorded the highest number of overseas recruitment since February 2009 when the sector first felt the brunt of
global financial recession, government official responsible for compiling and monitoring the overseas recruitment explained.
May figures also raised the first five months' manpower export statistics closer to the target, data released by the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) showed. The Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment (MEWOE) had earlier this year set a target to send half a million Bangladeshi workers abroad this year.
Officials said three traditional markets -- the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Singapore -- made up 80 per cent of the overseas jobs created in the first five months of this year, with the UAE alone accounting for half.
BMET officials attributed the sharp rise to "aggressive marketing", saying more and more countries were opening their doors to the Bangladeshi workers.
"The new monthly job figures show that our manpower export is back on track.
The post-recession impact on the job market now seems to be over," said a senior BMET official.
Of the total jobs, the Persian Gulf nation of the UAE alone recruited 103,050 Bangladeshis --- thanks largely to gradual recovery of its constriction sector since the global meltdown in 2008-9.
He said Malaysia had moved to resume recruitment of Bangladeshi workers, while Saudi Arabia would soon start recruiting four categories of workers from the country.
"We've got positive response from Malaysia. We believe they will employ hundreds of thousands of our workers," he said.
He added the Indian ocean island of Mauritius, meanwhile, announced a plan to hire more Bangladeshis
for its growing garment, fish processing and construction sectors.
Experts, however, binned the officials' comments, saying the paucity of opportunities in the so-called new job markets proved that the government's "aggressive manpower diplomacy" had so far failed.
According to the BMET, Bangladeshi migrants sent home around US$ 4.036 billion in the first four months of the current year.
A total of 201,758 Bangladeshi job seekers have been recruited by the overseas employers in the last five months of the year, defying speculations of crisis in job markets in the midst of political unrest in Arab world.
With 47,825 new recruitments in May 2011 alone, the total number of overseas job seekers during the January-May period was 17 per cent higher than the number of recruitment recorded during the corresponding period of 2010, latest compiled data revealed.
In fact, May 2011 recorded the highest number of overseas recruitment since February 2009 when the sector first felt the brunt of
global financial recession, government official responsible for compiling and monitoring the overseas recruitment explained.
May figures also raised the first five months' manpower export statistics closer to the target, data released by the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) showed. The Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment (MEWOE) had earlier this year set a target to send half a million Bangladeshi workers abroad this year.
Officials said three traditional markets -- the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Singapore -- made up 80 per cent of the overseas jobs created in the first five months of this year, with the UAE alone accounting for half.
BMET officials attributed the sharp rise to "aggressive marketing", saying more and more countries were opening their doors to the Bangladeshi workers.
"The new monthly job figures show that our manpower export is back on track.
The post-recession impact on the job market now seems to be over," said a senior BMET official.
Of the total jobs, the Persian Gulf nation of the UAE alone recruited 103,050 Bangladeshis --- thanks largely to gradual recovery of its constriction sector since the global meltdown in 2008-9.
He said Malaysia had moved to resume recruitment of Bangladeshi workers, while Saudi Arabia would soon start recruiting four categories of workers from the country.
"We've got positive response from Malaysia. We believe they will employ hundreds of thousands of our workers," he said.
He added the Indian ocean island of Mauritius, meanwhile, announced a plan to hire more Bangladeshis
for its growing garment, fish processing and construction sectors.
Experts, however, binned the officials' comments, saying the paucity of opportunities in the so-called new job markets proved that the government's "aggressive manpower diplomacy" had so far failed.
According to the BMET, Bangladeshi migrants sent home around US$ 4.036 billion in the first four months of the current year.
