DHAKA, Dec 19, 2021 (BSS) - Fifty IT firms have so far agreed to use the 
pre-employment assessment portal of the government for hiring manpower 
suitable for their companies. 

   The assessment portal, www.certification.bdskills.gov.bd-first of its kind 
in the country, developed by the LICT project of Bangladesh Computer Council 
(BCC) under ICT Division, will help the companies to select and hire 
candidates faster without compromising quality.

   "The pre-employment assessment portal developed by the government will 
help ease selection of competent and good fit candidates by the country's IT 
companies," said ICT Senior Secretary N M Zeaul Alam. 

   He said IT companies who will use the bdskills platform do not need to 
spend enough time to select competent candidates as per their demand as the 
entire assessment works would be done by the portal.

  The platform will not only help private sector but also help the government 
as it has been creating skilled human resources itself as per local and 
global demands to leverage growth of ICT sector, said the secretary.

   Executive Director of BCC Dr. Abdul Mannan said the assessment portal will 
assess skills and general knowledge of any specific subject of the candidates 
suitable with the job as per requirements of the companies.

   The IT companies could take this advantage in casing hiring competent 
people needed for their organisations, he said.

   LICT Project Director Tarique M Barkatullah said the assessment portal 
contains a provision to check authenticity of the exam and detail results 
which would be very much useful to assess right skilled professionals for 
hiring right people in shortest time.

   The bdskill portal would help country's IT companies to reduce time and 
cost of hiring professionals as well as determine candidates who are match 
for their hiring criteria and job vacancies, said IT-ITES Policy Adviser of 
LICT Project Sami Ahmed. 

   He said through this portal, IT professionals will appear for online 
assessment of their preferred subjects. Some 50 companies have so far singed 
Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) to use the assessment portal for 
selecting and hiring candidates for job, Sami added.