They praised the government's initiatives to recruit Emirati cadres
Citizens suggest creating an “indicator” to monitor Emiratisation rates
Career fairs help job seekers get jobs.
Photography: Ashok Verma
Citizens of young cadres looking for job opportunities suggested creating an “indicator or counter” within an electronic platform, to monitor and measure the employment rates of citizens in government and private employers in the country on a daily or monthly basis.
Citizens praised the government's efforts and initiatives aimed at providing job opportunities for all categories of citizens, while Federal National Council member Obaid Khalfan Al-Ghoul Al-Salami warned against deception by private employers on the processes of resettling leadership jobs.
In detail, "Emirates Today" conducted an opinion poll among a number of Emirati cadres looking for job opportunities, during their participation in the "Vision" exhibition, which concluded its activities in Dubai, on their evaluation for the first year of the measures and initiatives taken by the government to raise Emiratisation rates in various sectors. the work.
The citizens praised the efforts made by the leadership to overcome the obstacles facing young people looking for job opportunities, pointing out that the efforts made by the government to prepare adequate studies for the requirements of the labor market, and to identify the obstacles to the resettlement process during the past years, resulted in decisions and procedures that contribute to reducing the proportion of job seekers a job.
They considered that employment fairs help job seekers obtain jobs, suggesting at the same time the possibility of creating a government indicator to monitor the percentage of Emiratisation in the labor sectors on a daily or monthly basis, to clarify the rates of increase in the number of citizens who have recently joined employers.
Ahmed Abdul Rahman, a recent graduate, stressed the need for the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation to create an electronic platform, which includes a daily or monthly indicator or counter, to monitor and announce the number of citizens looking for work who have joined jobs.
While Hoda Al Balushi, a job seeker, called for the importance of the proposed index to differentiate between the numbers of citizens who obtained real job opportunities, and those who work in the outsourcing system, to ensure the correctness of the Emiratisation rates, and not to manipulate them through outsourcing. Emiratisation at all levels of employment, such as the percentage of increase in the number of Emiratis in the specialized supervisory leadership category, as well as the percentage of increase in the number of Emirati experts.
The opinion was supported by Hassan bin Hammoud, a job seeker, calling for the proposed indicator to be unified, linking all private employers on the one hand, and governmental (federal and local) on the other, stressing the need for the results of this indicator to be subject to administrative accountability for those employers that appear to lack Its interest in Emiratisation, or it provides weak interaction with initiatives to employ citizens.
For his part, a member of the Federal National Council, Obaid Khalfan Al-Ghoul Al-Salami, stressed that the leadership attaches special importance to the issue of empowering citizens functionally, and has developed a nationalization strategy with the aim of directing each citizen towards work that matches his skills, which enables him to serve his country and benefit himself, pointing out that the state It is moving at a steady pace to consolidate this approach through several initiatives and steps aimed at empowering the citizen and maximizing his participation in the country's development process.
Al-Salami warned against some employers trying to weaken the state’s initiatives regarding resettlement, by resorting to known or developed methods and means of circumvention, in a desire not to employ government-specified proportions of citizens, and to search for cheap labor, stressing that the lack of real interaction from employers. It remained a major reason for the failure of many initiatives launched by the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation, with the aim of raising Emiratisation rates in the private sector.
• The state attaches special importance to the issue of empowering citizens functionally.
motivating employers
Federal National Council member Obaid Khalfan Al-Ghoul Al-Salami said: “Over the past years, we have witnessed several initiatives, but with the Cabinet taking over this file, and issuing many decisions and initiatives that oblige and motivate employers to resettle, as well as attract and motivate citizens to work in the private sector. The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation must strengthen and update the tools and mechanisms owned by the ministry, to ensure the success of the government’s drive to provide 75,000 jobs for citizens in the private sector during the next five years.”
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