Crossover Targets USD 20 Million Jobs for Pakistan.
Successful Hiring Tournament by Punjab Information Technology Board and Global Technology Company Crossover.
During the first National freelancing convention held under the
auspices of Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) here today, a unique initiative jointly organized by the PITB and Crossover, participated by more than 300
applicants through highly gamified and competitive process of three rounds,
finished with a technical interview for on the spot job offer hired 50 senior
technical talents in a single day, generating jobs worth USD 5 Million per year
to Pakistan’s economy. Crossover has successfully tested this concept in
Turkey, Russia, Romania, Poland and Ukraine.
Chief
Minister Punjab, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif appreciated the talent hunting
activity by Crossover and hoped that the activity would benefit the economy of
Pakistan. Advisor to Chief Minister
Punjab and Chairman PITB, Dr. Umar Saif said that technology was creating jobs
around the globe while incubators, Startups and freelancing co-working spaces
were playing pivotal role in this regard. Pakistan being the third largest
English speaking and 9th mobile user country, with 60 % population
comprising of youth in the world has vast potential to exercise technology in
every field, he added.
Andy Tryba, Chief Executive Officer, Crossover in a message said
that Crossover was planning to run more tournaments in Karachi and Islamabad
based on Lahore experiment to hire over 200 senior software architects in
Pakistan and bring an additional $20M/year worth of employment to Pakistan
economy in 2017.
The successful candidates of Technical
interview have been given full time / remote job offer paying worth $100, 000/-
per year. Crossover is also paying a winning bonus of $5000 to the champion of
this tournament..
Crossover (also known as Crossover for Work) not only connects
companies to the best talent from around the world, but also provides a
seamless end-to-end solution for remote team management. Crossover connects
talent from around the globe with companies who are looking to hire only the
best. Crossover has more than 1850+ people from 98 different countries working
full time (40 hrs/wk) for its clients.
