Urdu Project

The Urdu Project is the project to offer CNM Cyber services in Urdu. Its predecessor is the Russian-language project that has been launched in Ukraine, but slowed down there by the war.

Recruitment

Proposal

We plan to hire 3-4 Urdu-speaking graduates from the initial training immediately on the spot and will work on more vacancies.

• The candidates don't need either education nor experience in order to be accepted.
• The initial training lasts for 3-4 weeks; our training is free.
• The initial rate is $0.9 per hour, which rises up to $3 in 2-3 months.
• The job is generic coordinator's work -- our initial training fully prepares for that.
• The work is remote; the schedule is flexible.
• Usually, we give 20 hours a week, so my staffers have room for everything else.
• The initial training is challenging for many; in Ukraine, only 3 people succeeded to get to the end out of about 350 candidates. If the Pakistani statistics would be similar, we look at about 500 candidates in Pakistan, right?

We would also like to target ladies sitting at home; men are usually bread-winners, their requirements are higher.

Onboarding

We don't interview the candidates. Instead, 100% of them have been forwarded to three courses:

1. One introduces the project itself,
2. The second describes its technology, and
3. The last teaches how to work with us.

All courses take about 3-4 weeks. The courses feature not only lectures, but also task assignments -- they are not easy to complete. In Ukraine, we have given a job offer to everyone who has completed all of the courses.

Sourcing

Advertising

We are going to post ads at Facebook job posting page in Pakistan and Sialkot, as well as Instagram at the 10$ ad in start level. In Ukraine, the announcements were posted on job-search websites, rabota.ua and work.ua

Handouts

We can hire one person and provide him with a bike and patrol. We will try handouts on specific days or occasions. The budget is about 4-5$/day in wages plus the cost of handouts' production.

Events

To give candidates a chance to get in touch, we tried weekly videoconferences in Ukraine, but really few folks ever joined, so we postponed. We believe that web conferencing might be helpful in Pakistan. We plan to offer those once a month and broadcast from a hall for rent, where 100+ people can participate in person, while using that facility -- https://www.sbcc.org.pk/

Referrals

To motivate referrals, we offered $75 per hire as a finder fee in Ukraine. However, that referral idea didn't work there. With regard to advertising, the choice is to promote the project itself or its referrals.

Technology

To support the project in Ukraine technologically, we created a platform with 3 VPS and one proxmox instance at hetzner.de in Germany. We plan to deploy a similar platform for the project in Pakistan.

Bare-metal

The characteristics of the server that supports the project in Ukraine are as follows:

• Dedicated Root Server SB35
• Intel Core i7-3930
• 2x HDD SATA 3,0 TB
• 8x RAM 8192 MB DDR3
• NIC 1 Gbit - Intel 82579LM
• Location: FSN1 (Falkenstein/Vogtland, Germany) -- DC7
• Rescue system (English)

For the project in Pakistan, we plan a similar server, probably, with a half of the RAM.

Disk-redundancy

What type of RAID are you going to set up? About Raid system please ask to server hosting, attach hardware raid system in it, so it will be good for our work, and speedup, also it will secure our data on the hard-disk level.

Virtualization

OS installation first, so it will be proxmox, so we can create some shared container or kvm based container there as per our usage.