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K. M. Saqiful Alam is a lecturer for Department of Management, School of Business, North South University. After
completing his undergraduates from Institute of Business Administration (IBA), he finished his masters from
Manchester Business School, and has been in the field of academia for over three years. Other than taking classes
in risk management, operations management and applied statistics, he is also involved in training, taking sessions on
supply chain and process mapping. In his recent visit to Podium, an event for the university students held at IBA,
Dhaka University he inspired the audience to choose careers that are not traditionally glorified.
Podium is a free idea sharing platform for students where they can share their ideas freely and share their ideas to
the world through YouTube and bring social change by creating awareness. Its mission is to create a platform where
students will share their ideas, opinions, thoughts. Podium aspires to reach each educational institution of
Bangladesh to ensure a common platform for students.
As one of the youngest lecturers at North South University, Mr Saqiful Alam shared his perceptive view about the
career decision that often distresses the growing youth of the nation. The audience comprised undergrad students
from various departments of Dhaka University who all face this dilemma growing up about what career field they
want to progress into. He began his 10 minute speech by saying how the budding minds of today grow up with a
biased mindset that is confined to the traditional career choices of working for an established company such as
Citibank and Unilever which completely ignores any other kind of career choice that digresses from the traditional
ones.
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Mr Saqiful Alam explained how the universe is like an
unblown balloon. “After putting two tiny dots on that balloon, if
we blow the balloon up, the dots become larger and also they
get separated from each other faster. In fact both the rates of
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Dhaka, BdChronicle:
A student­run organisation named ‘Podium’ has been established at Dhaka University to
create a free­speaking platform for the students where they can share innovative ideas and
thoughts and disseminate them to the greater mass to carry out social change.
The vision of Podium is to break all the institutional borders and create a common
speaking ground where every single student will be given chance to raise their voice.
The organisation has set its mission to provide students an independent platform to share
their ideas and thoughts to enable them to think outside of their career pathway and give
effort to more social development through their innovative ideas.
Podium films the best speeches on innovative ideas of the students and uploads the
videos to its own YouTube channel ‘The Podium’ so that the world could see what they are
doing, thinking and dreaming to bring changes to the society.
The organisation is also conducting its activities through a Facebook page where they
encourage other students apart from Dhaka University to join the platform and connect
them on the social movement.
The founding president of the platform Raihan Khandker told UNB, “If anybody outside of
our country searches the name Bangladesh, they only come to know the facts related to
political turmoil, women harassment, child killing and natural calamities like flood, cyclone
etc. We want to show the world that Bangladesh is not a country of negativity but it has
developed so far and the youth of the country got the potential to change the society
further through innovative ideas,” he added.
He expressed that the Podium is working as a medium to encourage and unite the
students throughout the country to formulate a movement to eradicate social oddities by
sharing ideas with each other.
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Group discussion before Podium Catalyst Recruitment 2015
‘Podium’, a unique and innovative platform of Dhaka University (DU) students, has started its
journey with a vision to create a common ground to provide opportunity for all the students to
speak up and bring about a social change in the country through dissemination of their
innovative ideas.
“If anybody searches for the name Bangladesh from outside the country, they only come to
know the facts related to political turmoil, women harassment, child killing and natural
calamities like flood, cyclone etc. We want to show the world that Bangladesh is not a country
of negativity but it has developed so far and the youth of the country got the potential to change
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the society further through innovative ideas,” Raihan Khandker, founder president of the
platform, tells UNB.
Raihan, who is studying Marketing at Dhaka University, will take part in the 3rd ‘Asia Pacific
Student Forum (APSF) – 2015’ as a representative of Bangladesh to share his idea of Podium.
The summit is going to be held in Universitas Indonesia Campus, Jakarta, Indonesia from
September 17–20.
Podium has been established with a goal to work as a medium to encourage and unite the
students throughout the country to forge a movement to eradicate social oddities by sharing
ideas with each other, he notes. It is the organisation’s aim to show how the world looks in the
eyes of a Bangladeshi student and through this platform they will be able to touch millions to
bring a greater change in society while Podium assist the students to speak up whether they
are famous or not, he adds.
The student organisation recently offered ‘Podium Catalyst Recruitment 2015’ among the
students, targeting to recruit them to Podium. Cosmos Group human resource manager Isfarul
Hoque, Renata Limited senior HR officer Anupom Chowdhury and Quantum Consumer
Solutions senior research manager Bushra Mehreen along with Podium executive committee
conducted the recruitment process.
The Podium president said the students working for the organisation will be benefitted in four
ways – they will be able to upgrade public speaking skill, enrich their work experience, take part
to make social change; and get the chance to brand Bangladesh.
Talking about the recruitment process, general secretary of the organisation Atiqul Haque Sami
said from the very beginning of the recruitment, Podium is trying to create value to the
applicants by introducing them to international recruitment methods and practices.
Podium believes as a student run organisation it’s their duty to create value to the students for
their future life, he added. He also a business discipline student of Dhaka University said the
platform also facilitate the students to meet with corporate officials so that they can have an
experience of facing corporate interview norms before they got their graduation. Dhaka