Pakistan Freelancers Club, the Country’s emerging IT professional platform, has signed an MoU with Memon Industrial & Technical Institute (MITI), Karachi’s leading vocational and technical training provider, to support young IT entrepreneurs and freelancers of Pakistan though appointing MITI graduates.
The strategic partnership aims at providing growing platforms to the MITI graduates through expert mentoring, connecting them to renowned organizations, assisting them with finding excellent employment in a given field, engaging them in freelancing work and further strengthening their knowledge by providing them with hands-on experience in their respective fields.
The official statement released by the Pakistan Freelancers Club reads that the platform will provide the work experience that helps graduates put their education into practice, develop their leadership skills and give them a competitive advantage as they pursue a permanent position.
Thoughts were shared on how leveraging the emerging ICT technologies in Pakistan could create a virtual cloud of aspiring workers who are ready to take up online assignments to make a living besides promoting Pakistan as a go-to-market for outsourcing diversified freelance projects
This collaboration between Pakistan Freelancers Club and Memon Industrial & Technical Institute is a great initiative as it will provide students with the chance to put what they are learning into action, in a real-world environment. This helps them better understand the theories and strategies they have been reading about, cementing the learning process and giving them greater focus.
The young talent will get exposure to various remarkable freelancing and other employment and entrepreneurial opportunities available internationally and locally.
Fighting unemployment and creating new job avenues is a collective responsibility of the business world and Pakistan Freelancers Club should inspire other market players to take similar steps for the empowerment of our youth. With the emergence of internet and connectivity, the freelance economy is taking shape globally with millions of individuals around the world benefiting from the on-line, outsourcing work allowing them opportunity to work on global projects and earn good money. Most freelance employees choose flexibility over a structured work environment or working hours. The freelance industry is also giving rise to small- and medium-size business ventures and thus promoting entrepreneurship globally.
Memon Industrial & Technical Institute (MITI):
Memon Industrial & Technical Institute (MITI) is the leading vocational and technical training provider in Karachi. They are offering training in 60 different courses to both male and female students. Their courses duration is 4 months, 6 months, 1 year and short courses of 2 weeks to 2 months and 1-day proficiency classes are also offered.
MITI is affiliated & accredited with the National Vocational & Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC), Trade and Testing Board (TTB), Sindh, Sindh Technical Education & Vocational Training Authority (STEVTA), Sindh Board of Technical Education (SBTE).
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