Employment & Field Services

UCEP provides adequate support services to the graduates passing out from its technical schools for apprenticeship/on the job training & appropriate employment through its employment & field services (EFS) Component. The EFS Component has evolved from the feeling that UCEP’s responsibilities did not end just after imparting education & training to the disadvantaged children, rather it was necessary to support the graduates to seek appropriate & long- term employment by exploiting their knowledge & skills in line with the demand of the labor market. Keeping this in mind the EFS Component has been providing employment support Services to UCEP technical schools graduates to assist them in getting employment in various industries & enterprises home and abroad. The EFS Component is currently operating its services in Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi, Barisal, Sylhet and Rangpur division.

 

The modus operandi of EFS Component includes

• Establishing and  maintaining dynamic linkage with employers
• Formation of employers committees and holding meetings
• Formation of advisory councils and holding meetings
• Observance of employers day/week
• Sensitizing employers to extend equal job opportunity irrespective of gender
• Follow-up of employed graduates
• Tracer study and impact evaluation of employed graduates

Core Services Provided by the EFS Component Include

Cooperative Vocational Education through "Dynamic Linkage"

UCEP has been working in a Cooperative Vocational Education system where training schools & industries participate in the total training program. The participation of the local employers and industrialists is ensured through establishing and maintaining a dynamic linkage with present and potential employers. “Advisory Councils” and “Employers Committees” are formed in different regions with the participation of the local employers and industrialists. In order to strengthen the linkage with the employers and industrialists, meetings, seminars, workshops, employers day etc. are organized time to time and the feed back through such meetings are properly considered in order that the training program is truly a demand driven. Interventions are continuously taken by adjusting the training modus/contents to the specific employment needs of the local industry.

Support  for Wage Employment

UCEP EFS Unit offices in Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna and Rajshahi arrange wage employment of the graduates of technical schools. Employment Support Officers (ESO) of the Component work directly for providing the employment support to the graduates. ESOs of a particular unit prepare list of the job seekers at the beginning of a particular session. The job seekers are taken to the employers as per the pre-secured workplaces or for facing employment interview with HR department of employers in different regions for wage employment. The EFS Units follow up the workplaces of the employed graduates, arrange replacements if required and monitor overall workplace behavior for about six months of placement in a particular workplace.

 

Types of work in which the wage-employed graduates involved

• Workshop/Furniture Shop learner/Helper/Technician
• Operators/QC Checker/Helpers in Ready made Garments Industries
• Operators/Maintenance Technicians/Helpers in  Large Cotton/Jute Textile/Spinning Mills
• Assembling/Maintenance Technician in Electronics Assembling Firms/Industries
• Electro-Mechanical Technicians/Helpers for Construction Industries
• Welders/Turners/Helpers In Construction Firms or Workshops
• Sales Person in Electrical/Electronics Manufacturing Firms/Industries etc

Till the session June 2011 a total of 41,389 graduates were placed in jobs since the inception of the EFS component in the year 1991. The gender ratio of the graduates (Girls: Boys) provided employment support was 37: 63. During the year Jan - June 2011 a total of 1,855 graduates were provided with jobs in different industries, workshops & production units in Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi, Barisal, Sylhet and Gazipur divisions.

Support For Self-Employment through ESA

EFS Component offers training on entrepreneurship to the graduates who are interested to build their own business or shop relating to their trades. The graduates are also assisted to get micro/small credit from NGOs/other financial institutions for self-employment. EFS Component recently introduced Entrepreneurship Support Activity (ESA) to encourage the graduates building their own business. The graduates of technical schools will be provided training on entrepreneurship and subsequent financial assistance in building new business. The financial assistance will be provided in terns of interest free recoverable grants with very soft installments.

Overseas Employment Scheme

UCEP- Bangladesh has been supporting its graduates employment abroad since April 2003.The scheme has been under taken with the generous financial assistance of Dutch Bangla Bank Limited. The Bank has provided a one time grant of Taka 20 lacs to UCEP to support former UCEP school graduates for  jobs abroad. UCEP Employment & Field Services Component searches for suitable jobs abroad for the trained graduates & arranged final placement in overseas countries in suitable trades through renowned recruiting agencies in Bangladesh. 116 UCEP graduates were successfully employed in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Egypt, Jordan & so on since inception of the scheme. The graduates placed in overseas jobs normally earn about BDT 15000-30000 per month in the initial stages of their employment.

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