Telenor Pakistan has won the PSHRM Preferred Graduate Employer Award for Most Preferred Telecommunications Company 2007

The Pakistan Society of Human Resurces Management (PSHRM) and Engage Human Resources, a human resources consultancy, have announced the results of the first Most Preferred Graduate Employer 2007 study. At a ceremony held in Karachi yesterday, Telenor Pakistan won the PSHRM Preferred Graduate Employer Award for Most Preferred Telecommunications Company 2007.

Nayab Baig, VP Human Capital Division commenting on the award said: "Our objective is to be the benchmark organization in Pakistan within the next two years; an organization that provides outstanding value proposition to the best talent in the country be it careers, learning, association, and opportunities to contribute. We aspire to build a culture that is permanently free from bureaucracy, open to people and ideas, innovative, high performing, aggressive towards competition, intimately connected to the customer, high on camaraderie, trust and mutual respect and leading through our values. A place where our employees love coming to work and feel the Friday night blues!

"Achieving this award is an indication that we are on the right track. We have already come a significant way in our short history, and we can all be proud of our contribution. But we must remember that we want to be where Unilever is today. I am so sure of us getting there - with collective effort."

The industry-wise list of winners is:

Industry Sector		Most Preferred Employer for Sector
	Banking	Standard Chartered
	Consumer Goods	Unilever Pakistan
	Telecom	Telenor
	Media	Geo TV
	Oil and Gas	Shell Pakistan
	Pharma	GlaxoSmithKline

Says Paul Keijzer, CEO Engage Human Resources: "Becoming the most preferred employer is not about advertising. The top ranked organizations have all been able to create an aspiring employee promise with leading HR practices that deliver that promise. Having built that internal credibility, a focused communication effort then helps to spread the word making these companies stand out for graduating MBA students as the most preferred places to work."

About the Most Preferred Graduate Employer Survey
In September 2007 Engage Human Resources in partnership with the Pakistan Society of Human Resources Management conducted a preference study interviewing 550 graduating MBA students from eight universities in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.

The universities (LUMS, IBA, Szabist, Iqra, LSE, CBM, University of Lahore, and Quaid-e-Azam University) were chosen from the latest Higher Education Commission ranking survey.