My neighbor’s daughter joined NADRA as a Junior Executive right after her intermediate, and I remember the family being genuinely confused about one specific thing before she applied: was this a permanent government job, or not? Her father kept saying “sarkari naukri hai,” but when the offer came, it was clearly labeled as a contract … 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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
