I’ll be honest — I fell for a fake “work from home” job once. Early on, I saw an ad promising PKR 60,000/month for “simple data entry, no experience needed,” and I actually paid a small “registration fee” before realizing something felt off. I never heard from them again. Lesson learned, expensively. That mistake is … Read more
A university friend of mine graduated with a Textile Engineering degree from NTU Faisalabad, and I remember him being genuinely confused for weeks about what “textile engineer” even meant as an actual job title. He’d studied fiber science, yarn manufacturing, dyeing chemistry — but when he walked onto his first mill floor, none of that … Read more
A friend from my CS batch spent his final semester building a decent portfolio, applied to maybe 15 software houses in Lahore, and got interview calls from exactly two. One of them asked him to build a login system live, in front of them, in under two hours. He froze halfway through, forgot to hash … Read more
My younger brother took a call center job the summer after his intermediate exams, mostly because a friend told him “yaar easy job hai, bas phone pe baat karni hoti hai.” Three weeks in, he came home looking exhausted and said something that stuck with me: “Itna easy nahi hai jitna log bolte hain.” I … Read more
A friend of mine spent two years grinding for a Bank Alfalah MTO seat — three attempts, three rejections — before finally getting through on her fourth try with National Bank of Pakistan. When I asked her what changed, she said something that stuck with me: “Pehli teen dafa mujhe laga bas CV acha hona … Read more
When I graduated, I did what everyone does — opened LinkedIn, searched “entry level jobs,” and applied to about 40 postings in one sitting using the same generic CV. Two replies. Both rejections. It took me nearly four months of trial and error before I actually understood how entry-level hiring works in Pakistan, and honestly, … Read more
My cousin failed his first traffic police interview because he didn’t know the height requirement had changed that year. He’d trained for six months, ran five kilometers every morning, and still got turned away at the document screening stage over a technicality he could have checked online in two minutes. That’s the thing about traffic … Read more
Funny enough, this ties right back to the NTS confusion we just talked about. My uncle applied for a WAPDA position a while back, and he made almost the exact same mistake — he assumed he’d apply directly to WAPDA and that’s it. Turns out WAPDA doesn’t run its own written tests for most posts. … Read more
A friend of mine spent three weeks applying to every “urgent hiring, apply now” Quran teaching post she saw on Facebook. Two turned out to be unpaid trial periods that never converted into real jobs. One asked her to pay a “registration fee” before starting. She finally landed a proper paid position — not through … Read more
A friend of mine finished her MPhil last year and was dead set on becoming a lecturer. She had good grades, a solid thesis, and honestly thought the hard part was already behind her. Then she spent three months applying to random university openings she found on Facebook groups, got zero replies, and started questioning … Read more
