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International job agency
PUM has played an important role in the field of international
development assistance for the past 28 years, sending senior experts to
more than 70 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America
and Central and Eastern Europe. Upon request, PUM’s experts offer their
skills and experience to businesses and organisations in places where
these are most needed. PUM projects are intense and generally take two
to three weeks.
In the course of their careers, PUM’s advisers have gained extensive
experience in nearly every conceivable field. These experts are
independent and work on a voluntary basis (they receive no wages). Since
its establishment in 1978, PUM has become Europe’s largest ‘job agency’
for professional volunteers who wish to work in developing countries.
Small and
medium-sized enterprises
The theory that entrepreneurs should play a major role in improving a
society’s standard of living has recently gained greater acceptance.
Hence it is not surprising that most of PUM’s clients are medium or
small businesses and organisations in developing countries. By clearly
defining the goals of its (short-term) missions in advance, PUM ensures
that the help will reach those who need it most. The recipients must
demonstrate that they cannot afford to pay for external advisers.
Subsidiaries of foreign companies do not qualify for assistance. The
firm or organisation must also be prepared to pay for the expert's local
costs, such as housing and other expenses.
A broad range of expertise
PUM receives requests for assistance in every stage of the managerial
process: administration, finance, automatisation, production, marketing,
technique and a wide variety of specialist fields. It has assigned
experts to advise firms in just about every sector of industry,
including construction, textile, metal and wood processing, chemicals
and agriculture.
Driven by enthusiasm
PUM achieves results because its senior experts are sent in response to
specific requests from developing countries. Enterprising people in the
Netherlands work together with Enterprising people elsewhere. This is
done on a voluntary basis. PUM volunteers do not receive a salary. They
are driven by enthusiasm, the desire to make a contribution and meet a
challenge: that of improving the lives of people in far-off countries.
PUM has experts in every conceivable field. Developing countries value
PUM's reservoir of expertise. Entrepreneurs in developing countries have
had many positive experiences with the Netherlands’ ‘grey experts’. And
nearly all experts speak of invigorating experiences and warm memories.
Bangladeshi enterprises willing to avail the
facility may visit
www.pum.nl
for details. |
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