A university friend of mine graduated as a Civil Engineer, got his PEC registration sorted immediately (he was proud of that), and expected job offers to follow fairly quickly. Reality hit differently — his first few months were mostly rejections or silence, followed by one offer that turned out to be an unpaid “training period” … Read more
My younger sister graduated with a BBA and set her sights specifically on e-commerce — she’d been running a small Instagram store on the side during university and figured that experience would carry her straight into a proper e-commerce role. Her first few applications went nowhere, and it genuinely puzzled her, since she actually had … Read more
My chacha’s son — I’ll just call him Bilal — spent almost three years chasing a government job after his Bachelor’s. Not CSS, nothing that dramatic. Just a regular BS-16 post through FPSC. He failed twice, and both times, the reason wasn’t that he “wasn’t smart enough.” He simply didn’t understand how the system actually … Read more
A university friend of mine, an electrical engineering grad, had one goal after graduation: get into telecom. Not banking, not IT services — specifically Jazz, Telenor, or PTCL. He said the stability and the actual technical exposure (RF, network infrastructure, real 4G/5G rollout work) was exactly what he wanted to build a career around. It … Read more
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
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
