ISLAMABAD – An attached department of Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis andHuman Resource Development, Overseas Employment Corporation (OEC), hasstarted the online registration for skilled and unskilled workers for jobopportunities in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries especially forupcomingWorld Expo 2020 in UAE and FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar.
An official source told APP here Monday that OEC as public sectororganization was successfully proving competent, reliable andcost-effective human resource to the international market, whileensuring exploitation free environment for overseas job seekers.
He said that since its inception in 1976, the OEC had provided employmentto more than 141,000 workers in over 60 different countries.
He said that the OEC had been awarded fastest sending agency awards by theHuman Resource Development Service of Korea to process and dispatch ofPakistani manpower to Republic of Korea under their Employment PermitSystem (EPS) which was the most efficient, fair and transparent recruitmentsystem of the world.He said that in the wake of Dubai Expo-2020, FIFA World Cup 2022 and othermega projects in the region, a huge number of workforce of all categoriesand trades professions was required for these mega projects.
The OEC is in process of building and maintaining a database of availableworkforce in Pakistan, which would be directly accessible to foreignemployers.
All professionals highly skilled, skilled, semi-skilled and generalworkers, who intend to seek employment abroad can apply or register withOEC.
Those candidates who are unable to apply online, may submit their CVs alongwith copy of deposit slip in any OEC office.All interested candidates can send their documents to the offices of theOEC including Lahore, Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar by August 31.