The focus of this study is on the employment issues of Bangladeshi seafarers in the prevailing job market for seafarer. The paper gives a summary of the history of seafaring, growth of Maritime institute of education and Training, establishment of national fleet to contribute to the jobs of seafarers and training of cadets. This is a descriptive study. Data collected for this study are from both the primary and secondary sources. Primary data were collected by interviewing people serving in Maritime Education and Training (MET) institutes and the seafarer sailing currently. Secondary sources of data are published books, journal papers, government shipping office website etc. This research conceptualizes the key problems behind the unemployment of Bangladeshi seafarer and effort has been given to explore the inherent root causes. The identified causes are the less number of national flag vessels, reputation of seafarers in the global market, standard of MET. Therefore, this study recommends formation of employment policy for Bangladeshi seafarer, diplomatic effort to regain reputation of Bangladeshi seafarer, enhance the quality of MET institute and increase training facility. This study concludes some proposal for the improvement of work opportunity of Bangladeshi Seafarer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\nKeywords:<\/strong> MET, Employment, Seafarer.<\/p>","file":"\/files\/econtents\/6056ed565f76011-Seafarers Employment Issues Bangladesh Perspective.pdf","downloaded":46,"created_at":"21\/3\/2021 5:53 PM","updated_at":"5\/11\/2021 12:59 AM"}