Successful Hiring Tournament by PITB and Global Technology Company Crossover

Lahore, 28 March 2017 :During the first National freelancing convention held under the auspices of Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) here today, a uniqueinitiative jointly organized by the PITB and Crossover, participated by more than 500 applicants through highly gamified and competitive process of three rounds, finished with a technical interview for on the spot job offer hired 50 senior technical talents in a single day, generating jobs worth USD 5 Million per year to Pakistan’s economy. Crossover has successfully tested this concept in Turkey, Russia, Romania, Poland and Ukraine.

Chief Minister Punjab, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif appreciated the talent hunting activity by Crossover and hoped that the activity would benefit the economy of Pakistan.  Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab and Chairman PITB, Dr. Umar Saif said that technology was creating jobs around the globe while incubators, Startups and freelancing co-working spaces were playing pivotal role in this regard. Pakistan being the third largest English speaking and 9^th mobile user country, with 60 % population comprising of youth in the world has vast potential to exercise technology in every field, he added.   

Andy Tryba, Chief Executive Officer, Crossover in a message said that Crossover was planning to run more tournaments in Karachi and Islamabad based on Lahore experiment to hire over 200 senior software architects in Pakistan and bring an additional $20M/year worth of employment to Pakistan economy in 2017.

The successful candidates of Technical interview have been given full time / remote job offer paying worth $100, 000/- per year. Crossover is also paying a winning bonus of $5000 to the champion of this tournament. 

Crossover (also known as Crossover for Work) not only connects companies to the best talent from around the world, but also provides a seamless end-to-end solution for remote team management. Crossover connects talent from around the globe with companies who are looking to hire only the best. Crossover has more than 1850+ people from 98 different countries working full time (40 hrs/wk) for its clients.
Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) today(  28th March, 2017)organized Pakistan’s 1st National Freelancing Convention. This event brought together leading freelancers from all across Pakistan as well as allow all relevant stakeholders of freelancing to network and interact with each other. The convention promises to not only build stronger ties within the Pakistani freelancing community but also help us in creating cross industry avenues for freelancers. 
This is one of its kind convention, solely dedicated to independent workers. One shall not only get a 360 degree view of the entire freelancing community but also help find out opportunities for aspiring freelancers at home and abroad.
Here's what happened on the day!

Sessions:
1. Freelancing to entrepreneurship; opportunities and challenges
2. Building efficient payment gateways for freelancers
3. Women in Tech
4. The art of blogging

Meetups:
1. WordPress
2. Behance
3. Fiverr
4. Developer Circles from Facebook
5. Tester's Meetup
6. Payoneer

Tech Expo where freelancers, payment solutions, bloggers, IT companies and all other stakeholders of the relevant industry will be showcasing their products!

Last but not the least, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif's flagship project, Chief Minister's e-Rozgaar Program. will be officially launched on the day. eRozgaar is a project where 40 coworking spaces & training centres are being set up in 36 districts of Punjab. This will open multiple opportunities for not just students but freelancers as well. 
So come join us! Stay tuned to this page for updates!