The use of electronic recruitment system (e-recruitment) by government organisations to process job applications has ensured hassle-free and faster recruitment of manpower bringing an end to the traditional cumbersome method, officials said.

They said the web-based recruitment system `E-recruitment.bcc.gov.bd’ developed and introduced by Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) to process job applications online.

After successful online processing of 100,000 job applications against advertisements of 60 posts of 11 government agencies the other organisations are also showing keen interest to use the e-recruitment system, said project director of LICT Md Rezaul Karim.

According to a source, the Women and Children Affairs Ministry, Food Directorate and Jatiya Mahila Sangstha in separate letters have requested LICT Project of BCC to use its e-Recruitment System to process the job applications online against vacancies of their respective organisations.   

“The E-recruitment system covering from job posting, shortlisting of candidates based on evaluation exam to take online exam will reduce time and hassle of job applications and result processing and increase exam management quality,” said Rezaul Karim.  

He said the employers can conduct evaluation test of jobseekers with a provision of automated result processing using BCC’s e-recruitment system.

According to BCC, 70,000 jobseekers recently filed applications for some posts of Tathya Apa project of Jatiya Mahila Sangstha were processed from online receiving of applications to delivery of admit cards through e-mail using the BCC’s E-recruitment system platform.  

LICT Deputy Project Director Tarique M Barkatullah said the e-recruitment system platform, developed in line with the digital Bangladesh initiatives, has been processed over 100,000 jobseekers’ applications very successfully and efficiently.

Tarique said it is a secure web-based recruitment system that would cover a broad range of recruitment activities, including job posting and shortlisting of candidates based on evaluation exam, taking online exam, manage question bank, online transaction verification with bank, integrated with the national e-service bus.

Refference: UNB, Monday 09 July, 2018