RAWALPINDI: The Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (Tevta) has launched a free job portal ‘Skilled Labour Marketing Information System’ (SLIMS) for its around 100,000 job-seeking graduates, said Tevta Director Apprenticeship Waheed Asghar here Tuesday.
“We have developed the portal for the convenience of our job seeking graduates who can upload their curricular vitae (CV) and the same can be accessed by interested employers thereby offering jobs to the unemployed youth,” he told a briefing held at Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI).
Waheed said the portal facility is being offered free of cost to the job seekers as well as the employers.
He said Tevta has been offering technical and vocational training programs to the youth of the province in around 600 trades of various spans for the last four years.
He said so far around 0.2 million youth have completed their courses and number of them are already on jobs while the remaining lot can get employment through the newly developed portal.
He said Tevta, under the vision of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, has targeted to impart skills and training to over two million youth by the end of 2018 and during the current year around 180,000 youth are being offered different training programs in various traits.
While giving details about SLIMS he said, all Tevta graduates have been directed to upload their CV which can be accessed by Tevta registered employers from across the province. At present around 63,000 graduates have uploaded their CVs while about 13,500 employers have been registered to access the portal.
He said that the employers have been asked to get themselves registered with Tevta directly or through their respective Chambers upon which they would be issued exclusive login name and password to get access to the job portal. He said, the briefing to RCCI members on Tuesday was an effort to get maximum registration for the portal from the area.
RCCI President Mian Humayun Parvez appreciated steps of Tevta to overcome the scourge of un-employment by providing skilled manpower to the industrial and other job offering units of the country. He assured full support of the business community to make Tevta programs a complete success.
