A cousin of mine messaged me last year asking, “Yaar, DHA mein jobs kaise apply karte hain? Website open karo to kuch samajh nahi aata.” And honestly, I laughed a little because I went through the exact same confusion two years back when I first tried applying for a DHA Lahore position. I remember sitting … Read more

A neighbor of mine spent almost two months refreshing random job pages looking for a WASA vacancy, while the actual notice had been sitting on WASA’s own website the entire time — buried under a page he never thought to check. He eventually got a sub-engineer role, but only after he stopped relying on third-party … Read more

I still remember the confusion in my head the first time I appeared for an NTS test. I thought I was applying for a “job.” Turns out, no — I was applying for a test, and the actual job was something completely separate, run by a whole different organization. Took me a while (and one … Read more

A former colleague of mine spent almost eight years in corporate marketing before deciding she wanted “meaningful work” and switched to the NGO sector in Karachi. Her first reaction after landing her first NGO job? “Yaar, yeh corporate se bilkul different hai — pay is lower, but I actually feel like I’m doing something.” I’ve … Read more