In the days of financial and credit crunch in Pakistan, everyone is looking for a good, bankable and authentic job. And with the new age, the process of job hunting has also got a complete overhaul in terms of operations. Nowadays people look for jobs over the internet instead of scanning multiple newspaper and notices in press.

Various job websites have grown over the internet like mushrooms in the rainy season and trap users in long and tiring processes of registrations, sign ups and other formalities before providing them with genuine access to the available job opportunities.

Only a few of these websites are providing authentic information with sincere motives. One such website is PaperPk.com, the most authentic job seeking platform that provides users with most updated, authentic and reliable information on current jobs in the industry.

A very famous quote says “Every Accomplishment Starts with a Decision to Try” and this is true to bits in the case of Paperpk.com. PaperPk.com started to make heads turn when it recently crossed another landmark by surpassing Rozee.pk, a giant job advertisement platform and portal of Pakistan in terms of unique visitors per day and overall traffic, by becoming the most visited job search and job advertisement website of Pakistan. The job portal is being trusted by people across the country to get authentic information regarding job opportunities, tender notices, admissions, jobs in private and government sector.

The Expedition of Success for PaperPk.com

This online job portal is now standing at this peak success but the journey of being number one was never a piece of cake as PaperPk.com is living example of the fact that “Opportunities usually disguise themselves as Hard work so most people don’t recognize them” because the stature PaperPk.com is enjoying today is sole fruit of hard work, dedication and resource management abilities of CEO.

Faheem Mumtaaz founder and CEO at PaperPk.com launched the website when he was a student with the sole aim of helping the student to get through the tedious task of finding an appropriate job for them. As a student he knew how difficult and monotonous the task was as one has to purchase tens of newspapers and browse through each of them to getting the required information. He was aimed to launch a website where the information and data of all the available competent jobs around the country is just one click away from the visitor and this mere thought gave birth to a marvel called PaperPk.com.

Achievements at a Glance

PaperPk.com is a true example of dedication and show us when dreams, dedication and hard work is amalgamated it doesn’t require any backing from monetary and financial means. The website is structured on true dedication and there is no investment ever taken from any outside source to expand the operations and structure of website. There is no money invested to perform intense marketing of the website on social media, any newspaper, or in the form of TV and radio advertisements.

PaperPk.com is never advertised through Google by using SEM or neither SEO techniques nor the management of the website ever purchased back links to the websites to make it more visible over the internet that is currently swarming with competition. The solitary effort was made by the entire team  was to provide authentic and timely information to the visitors in terms of their queries and as we see that their efforts bore fruit and PaperPk.com crossed Rozee.pk that was once touted as most visited job based portal of Pakistan.  At this merry moment let’s see some of the stats of this online job portal with you for your interest as currently

• com is getting about one Lac unique sessions each day
• There are 40 to 50 Job Advertisers that are directly posting new jobs on the website each day
• com Team posts about 250 new jobs daily from the random newspaper, Face Book and Linked In
• 20 Percent of the jobs published on the website are needed to be applied from the website and rest of them you can apply directly which is one of the most competitive factor of PaperPk.com
• About 200,000 CV’s collected in Bets phase for last 6 months.

Structure and Organization of PaperPk.com

PaperPk.com is one of the most structured and organized online job portal in terms of information it provides to its users. You can search the website according to the cities as it provides you with the jobs available in all the cities such as Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and all the other major cities.

The jobs are also categorized in the form of professions so that you can refine your search on the basis of profession you are looking job for as all the major professions such as IT Jobs, Engineering, Medical are listed in the form of categories. You can also conduct search on the basis of Government Department as well such as Punjab Government Jobs, Sindh Government Jobs, KPK Government Jobs and Baluchistan Government Jobs.

Decision Making Process of the Online Job Portal Future

At this point, Online job portal PaperPk.com has to make some new decisions to prove its mettle in future as well. In order to achieve new landmarks PaperPk.com need to get their users and visitors by their side and send your feedback so that they can use your precious suggestions in decision making.

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The Nest i/o is a technology incubator in Karachi, Pakistan launched by P@SHA

You know how every time you have to do something new, everyone tells you to get “expert advice”, may it be buying property, a new move in your business or a new skin treatment that you want to try out. It makes you think there really is something to it.

It is the same when you are an entrepreneur. To avoid make a mistake which will take months or years to discover on one’s own.

So why does an entrepreneur need a mentor? To put it in one line, insights and options, these are the two basic and very important things that a mentor provides to fill in the gaps in your knowledge.

A Mentor Has “Been There”

Most startups, especially the ones that are in the technology space, have very young minds behind them with little or no experience but a lot of enthusiasm. Getting advice from someone who has been there, done that can go a long way for such a new business.

A Mentor Opens Doors

Not literally though! Doors of opportunities, yes! When you are just starting out your venture, you need any and all help you can get for your business to get past some barriers and make connections with the big guns of the industry. A good mentor on your side can get you in the office of a senior executive and in that government department you really want to reach.

A Mentor is Not a Teacher or a Boss

A mentor is there to guide you and support you but he cannot run the business and it does not belong to him. He is not there to help you solve every big and small problem of your business but only to challenge you to think differently and help you figure out your strengths and weaknesses.

Mentoring is an adult-to-adult relationship and should never be treated like a student-teacher or a boss-employee relationship. This means that as the owner of the company, an entrepreneur makes the final call and cannot hold anyone else responsible for a bad choice or a mistake made.

A Mentor Urges You to Think

When you are working on developing a strategy, it is always wise to use an external advisor during such deliberations. Because of a mentor’s ‘external view’, is he able to ask you difficult questions that will make you think outside of your limits and elements that you might be overlooking.

A Mentor Questions Your Pre-Conceived Notions

A good mentor challenges your pre-conceived notions; he shows you the other side of the coin. For example, instead of suggesting a new or particular solution or strategy, the mentor asks why you want to take up the strategy that you planned to do so in the first place. It happens ever so often that the enthusiasm of starting off with a new venture already can blind an entrepreneur to obvious flaws in the business plan and chase after a segment with a barrier to entry.

Role of Incubators and Accelerators

One of the main reasons that incubators and accelerators exist is to give you access to mentors; because exactly how many industry experts can you find on your own right?! It is a blessing that only someone who has reaped its fruit would be able to elaborate. Now, business incubators/accelerators provide different types of mentorship: there are talks and speaker sessions with an audience comprising a whole bunch of entrepreneurs and there are meetings which are although one-on-one but with multiple entrepreneurs at one time. This opportunity not only allows entrepreneurs to gain knowledge from the mentor’s expertise but also allows them to network with the mentor and access him for more or continual advice in the future.

There Should Be More Than One Mentors

‘The more the merrier’ applies to mentors as well, especially when you are seeking specific advice. Areas such as accounting, patents, intellectual property are good examples where advice from a mentor with a particular background would be more helpful than knowing about it ‘just from experience’.

Important to note here is that this habit of seeking advice from mentors should not be limited only till the time you are still small and setting up your business. I have seen founders of big businesses reaching out to their ‘gurus’ before signing off a term sheet for a third round of seed investment. This is called mentoring relationship and I don’t see why it shouldn’t be among the most precious relationships for an entrepreneur.

Moreover, mentorship need not be in person. A Pakistani entrepreneur could be following the life and activities of a successful entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and taking inspiration from him for his own business but this kind of mentorship will of course be limited.

In the end, every entrepreneur should remember that your business needs a different mentor for every different stage of your business. Moreover, a mentor is there to help you learn what you want to achieve in the future as opposed to helping you solve a problem in the present.

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