In today’s competitive job market, it is important to have an up-to-date resume to increase chances of getting an interview. This is why, a workshop on job preparation was conducted on 16 and 17 June 2020 at online google meet. This workshop is designed to help our girls with a complete schooling of preparing an eye-catching resume, a complete cover letter and exclusive interview guidelines.  This two-day workshop was attended by a total 30 participants. This workshop was arranged by Bangladesh Open Source Network under its three-year ESDG4BD Project.

Participants from different universities took part in an interactive discussion to get over from their all confusions about resume. The content of this workshop includes how to write a powerful resume and get short-listed for any jobs, how to prepare a customized cover letter, how to prepare for interviews and build their confidence levels, how to email a resume etc. Due to the pandemic condition, most of the organization prefer to have a pone in interview or online interview. This is why, this workshop also focusses on the manners of online interview.

Through this workshop, students got the opportunities to know how to smarten their resume and cover letter and why tailoring and refreshing of a resume is important to grab their dream job. This workshop also provides some key elements which are responsible to reject a CV or resume. A participant from Khulna University said that before this workshop, she had no idea about a cover letter and how does it look like.