A report prepared by Zayed University on practical graduates ’destinations in the 2017-2018 academic year revealed an 8% increase in Zayed University graduates’ orientation to work in the private sector, explaining that the percentage increased from 15% in 2015 to about 23% last year .
This came during the first professional exhibition for the current academic year, which was opened by the President of the University, Prof. Dr. Riyad Al-Muhaidib, in its two campuses in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, with the aim of supporting Emiratization and providing current and future employment and training opportunities for university students and helping them to build their career options on scientific grounds, and through an interactive and field approach To the rapid developments in the labor market.
This semiannual event, organized by the University’s Professional Affairs Office, attracted many bodies, departments and companies that are keen to introduce their programs in various disciplines and provide areas for university graduates and students to meet directly with their representatives and learn about new career prospects and successive developments in the labor market. The exhibition included an awareness area to support new students who are thinking about their specializations and looking for job experience opportunities to add to their CVs.
Al-Muhaidib pointed out that the professional exhibition embodies the university’s interest in encouraging its students and motivating them to develop their competencies to participate effectively in achieving the national agenda and insightful visions established by the rational leadership, with the aim of advancing the homeland and the citizen, adding that the exhibition constitutes a systematic link between the academic and practical stages, and contributes to advancing the career path For students, it provides them with extensive training opportunities during the study that qualify them to explore their career options and pathways in the postgraduate stage.
He pointed out that such activities also contribute to strengthening the institutions endeavor to attract a large number of graduates and graduates of Zayed University to work in its departments as well as students of the final stages of the university to obtain training opportunities for them due to the scientific excellence that its graduates and graduates have of obtaining academic and technical skills, noting that The university is always working to strengthen relationships and communication with various community bodies to achieve the university's strategy in recruiting its graduates.
For his part, Acting Director of Student and Graduate Affairs Department, Rashid Al Shamsi said: "We have close links with 560 government agencies, 529 private sector companies, and 123 quasi-governmental institutions, and the university has pushed its graduates over the past five years to join the private sector.
He added: "According to the latest report on graduation destinations we conducted for the 2017-2018 academic year, there is an 8% increase in the employment of graduates of graduates of Zayed University in the private sector, where the percentage was 15% in 2015 and rose to about 23% in 2018." .
Meanwhile, a consultant in the Student and Alumni Affairs Department, Jane Tatterton, said: We work with many employers in the country through a number of channels, and we invite them to participate in working days and professional exhibitions, and we organize meetings with their representatives from time to time to provide the competencies available from Our graduates required from these authorities.
She noted the initiative launched by Zayed University last month, which is based on holding a regular forum between its graduates and representatives of the work entities with the aim of strengthening cooperation between the university and many of its relevant partners, as well as proposing new strategies and proposing ways to support building more solid and developed relations with the business entities ... noting To create a "Human Resources Graduate Network at Zayed University" during the forum, which aims to provide university students with learning opportunities, exchange experiences and facilitate the recruitment process.