Quotes

--Quotes From Candidates

Arif Rizvi:
I am a Canadian and French national, and was at IBM Canada for the past 6 years. I wanted to return to Pakistan to be closer to my family. Career Pakistan helped me find the right job in Pakistan.

Ansar Rajput:
I had done MBA from Babson College and was looking for a career in Islamabad. The process was so slow that it had frustrated me till I got in touch with Career Pakistan. Career Pakistan got me a job almost immediately. What is amazing is that instead of I looking for opportunities, an organization contacted me first and hired me.

Shahid Ali:
I had worked for over 20 years in various Fortune 500 companies in the US . I was interested in an IT job in Pakistan , but only at a level of appropriate seniority. Career Pakistan was recommended by a friend. Career Pakistan found me a job as head of Enabling Technologies, the leading IT company in Islamabad.

Munir Nayyar:
After attaining my graduate degree from MIT and working for several years in Construction Management for different organizations. I wanted something more challenging. But I had not really started developing an action plan. Then one day, Career Pakistan called me through a mutual contact. It arranged my interview with the country chief of a multinational company. Soon I was hired as their General Manager Engineering.

Shandana Abedin:
After my Ph.D.in Management from the UK , I wanted to teach at my home-tome in Pakistan . Career Pakistan found me a job in Peshawar at the National University-FAST, one of the top universities in Pakistan.

Saman Ikram:
I wanted to fill the gap between the completion of my undergraduate program at LUMS and the starting of my graduate studies at Yale with some personally fulfilling work-experience. Career Pakistan arranged my interview with Microsoft, which offered me its Community Affairs position.

--Quotes from Society

Carlos Chanduvi-Suarez, UNIDO Representative to Pakistan:
Career Pakistan’s Reverse Brain Drain program for attracting world-class talent to Pakistan will contribute to the country’s sustainable industrial development. Thus the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and Career Pakistan signed a Cooperation Agreement to assist each other’s efforts in support of Pakistan ’s Technology Foresight Program.

Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Federal Minister for Investment:
Career Pakistan is doing a national and noble service for facilitating the return of qualified overseas nationals to Pakistan , which would certainly help Pakistan bring quality management and world standard skills in all fields.

Masood Siddiqui, CEO, Premier-Kufpec Pakistan, and President HR Committee of Pakistan Petroleum Exploration and Production Companies Association (PPEPCA):
As the President of the HR committee, I was tasked to identify ways and means of solving the shortage of high quality manpower issue that the E&P sector of Pakistan faces today. In view of this purpose, Career Pakistan gave a presentation to the PPEPCA Excom.

Career Pakistan can help by identifying high quality Expatriate Pakistanis who wish to repatriate to Pakistan . In the face of the current challenges, I view this as an opportunity worth exploring.

--Quotes From Organizations

Shahid Malik, Al-Ghurair-Giga:
Selection process for our Sales and Marketing staff focused heavily on personal qualities of the candidates, not just their professional credentials. Career Pakistan staff first listened intently to our requirements. It then went ahead to fill all 12 of our positions at Al-Ghurair Giga with meticulous care. Each candidate Career Pakistan sent was worthy; either we hired him or her, or it was a near-miss

Imran Ul Haq, Alcatel-Lucent:
I saw the success of the Career Pakistan methodology in our technical interviews for Radio Network Optimization Usually, Career Pakistan would arrange interviews of just 2 or 3 candidates. Out of these, we would select one.It saved us so much time. The quality of all 16 professionals placed by Career Pakistan is good.

Tariq Latif, Orascom:
For filling positions at our multinational company, we had two options. We could search for candidates through placing job ads in newspapers and Internet sites, or through a professional recruitment agency. Working with Career Pakistan proved to be the most useful. For our previous year of work, they filled the highest number of our positions.

Fahad Sharif, Lafrage:
Searching for candidates in the manufacturing industry, which are up to the standards of our French multinational, is an exhausting process. But we found engaging Career Pakistan for our headhunting to be the most comforting. We were so pleased with their diligence that we are often recommending them to other companies for their executive search assignments, both in Pakistan and abroad.

--Quotes From Team

Bilal Kayani, Morgan Stanley, UK:
Working with Career Pakistan proved to be an experience of a lifetime. There was always so much to do. My work included developing and implementing strategies to find the best candidates for the most sought-after organizations. In doing so, I ended up with a huge personal network of new friends and contacts.