Move to eliminate overseas job brokers
The government today begins online registration of overseas job seekers to eliminate middlemen and cut migration cost.
“We want to bring an end to malpractices in the sector and devise such a mechanism that foreign employers can directly select job seekers online,” said Nurul Islam, director of the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET).
Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain will launch the online registration system at Probashi Kallyan Bhaban at Eskaton in the capital.
From now on, anyone seeking to work abroad can put his/her personal information, curriculum vitae, national ID number, birth certificate or passport number and photo on the websites -- www.bmet.gov.bd or www.bmet.org.bd. Instantly, the system will verify online the passport or national ID number. If verification online is not possible, the site will give a message. In such a case, the person concerned has to go to the nearest District Employment and Manpower Office along with necessary documents within seven days for verification, bureau officials said.
On completion of verification, the job seeker will be given a password, which will be used to pay Tk 88 to BMET through Teletalk mobile phone, and to download the registration card as a proof of getting registered. The data of the jobseekers will be maintained by BMET, which will have connectivity with the Bangladesh missions abroad.
Foreign employers willing to recruit Bangladeshi workers will have access to required information about them subject to obtaining a password from the Bangladesh missions.
“On selection of candidates, employers will directly approach the Bangladesh missions for recruitment,” said Nurul Islam.
Under this system, middlemen will be eliminated from the process, he added.
When private recruiting agencies will manage jobs abroad, they will seek information about the job seekers from BMET.
Side by side with the online registration, the present system of registration of workers for overseas jobs will continue. Moreover, registration of aspirant migrants through the deputy commissioner's offices will start soon, BMET officials mentioned.
All these are aimed to ensure that job seekers go through a disciplined and transparent process, and are not defrauded and exploited, Nurul Islam said.
Contacted, Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit Executive Director Prof CR Abrar hailed the government step, and said it now needs to critically analyse why such database did not work previously.
Comments