April was verifiably the most noticeably awful ever month for Amena Akter, a subsequent year praises understudy of a school in Dhaka.
Her dad and sibling were laid off from a furniture shop close to their home in the capital's Mirpur 11 because of the administration upheld shutdown.
The terrible news didn't end for her there. She used to procure some cash taking classes at a training place in Mirpur and that also needed to close.
Her family was crushed, concerned about how they would pay their home lease, and oversee different costs. There appeared to be no expectation at finding a new line of work when every other person was being ended.
One day when she was looking over the newsfeed of her Facebook account she came to think about Kormo, an application based occupation commercial center of Google that associates jobseekers to organizations looking for labor.
She introduced the application and got a new line of work notice from Meena Bazar. She applied quickly and got an open door for a remote meeting.
"On April 29, I introduced the application and I landed the position offer on that day," said Amena. "It was a major alleviation for my family as now I am helping them with house lease and different costs," she said.
Like Amena, store chain Meena Bazar utilized two or three hundred individuals through the Kormo application over the most recent two months.
"In March and April, a large number of our workers relinquished their position dreading for the Covid-19," Kazi Inam Ahmed, chief of Gemcon Group, which claims Meena Bazar, one of the most seasoned general store chains in the nation, revealed to The Daily Star yesterday.
"With the Kormo application, we can satisfy our need for representatives," he said.
To address the Covid-19 circumstance, Kormo presented two new highlights — Remote Jobs and Remote Interviews — in their application, permitting those searching for work to find basic work-from-home chances and securely direct meetings on the web.
"Most recent two months it has been somewhat unique. Individuals are currently urgently looking for employments and organizations are anxious to fill their opportunities," said an authority of Google's Kormo.
The authority said individuals were landing positions utilizing the Kormo application snappier than any time in recent memory.
"At the point when the circumstance was typical, there were things like preparing. Be that as it may, presently there are no such things," said the authority.
As indicated by an ongoing review of Brac, around 62 percent of low-salary workers lost work openings during the shutdown. The pandemic additionally left 28 percent of the respondents monetarily dormant, it makes reference to.
In April alone, Meena Bazar employed in excess of 400 staff during the lockdown utilizing the Kormo application, their sole enlistment channel.
Meena Bazar's move likewise originates from the ongoing exceptional interest for conveyance administrations with purchasers remaining back inside their homes.
This has expanded their need to recruit more laborers and direct meetings remotely to adapt to the prerequisites of customers during the pandemic.
Propelled in 2002, Meena Bazar currently has 16 outlets and straightforwardly utilizes more than 1,000 individuals.
"Nowadays, our master HR group is working with Kormo and directing remote meetings to enroll individuals. This has made the procedure more secure for our group and applicants," said Ahmed Shoyeb, senior supervisor at Meena Bazar.
"It's our obligation as a basic business to step up right now. We're sure our association with Kormo will empower us to stay aware of employing requests and scale our remote workforce rapidly."
Since September 2018, when Google propelled Kormo, which keeps up advanced CVs, a huge number of individuals secured positions utilizing the application.
The application was propelled with the end goal of helping individuals in the casual segment, either jobless or utilized at low compensation, secure positions. It eyes the 86 percent of the nation's work power who are utilized in the casual part.
The application has been created under Google's Area 120 program, a hatchery for new imaginative thoughts inside the organization.
With free access to the web-based interface, Kormo helps its initial managers' shortlisted competitors by utilizing AI, tracks the up-and-comers' start to finish application status, and in general, goes about as a coordinated Applicant Tracking System.
The Kormo application's element to send reliable updates (application warnings and messages) to work candidates about the meeting plan has facilitated the HR group's everyday activities essentially
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