Healthcare sector growth to create more jobs

Growth is the best medicine, as regional health jobs expand by 14%

Increased demand and opportunities for recruits at UAE hospitals

The healthcare sector in the MENA region is gearing for a vigorous expansion of 14% per year in job opportunities. This forecast is amplified by the fact that support occupations worldwide will expand by 34.5% until 2020. Read more

Oil and gas sector short of critical talent in the Middle East

Expanding into global and new markets top strategic priority for oil and gas sector executives in the Middle East

Executives indicate critical talent shortages in the oil and gas sector in operations, information technology, risk and regulatory, and research and development

In a Deloitte report entitled the Talent Edge 2020: Redrafting talent strategies for the uneven recovery, experts focused on the oil and gas sector, to gauge the talent trends in the growing industry. Of the key findings, the majority of the surveyed oil and gas executives anticipate a looming talent shortage in all skill categories, the most pressing of which is in operations (81%). Read more

Luxury hotel brand offers lucrative career opportunities

Rewarding career opportunities and engaging experiences in hotels around the world

Over 125 jobs in UAE, including in Dubai and Abu Dhabi

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts today announced the official launch of its Careers Website, a compelling gateway for today’s top talent to connect with the brand. Building on Fairmont’s reputation as an exceptional employer and supporting the luxury hotel brand’s global expansion plans, the site debuts a wide range of upgrades that provide a window to rewarding career opportunities and engaging experiences in hotels around the world. Read more

Employment and Salary Trends in the Gulf 2012

UAE salaries expected to rise by an average of 5.1% in 2012

After releasing its latest research report on salary trends in April, Gulf Talent launches today the Arabic version with the same title – “Employment and Salary Trends in the Gulf 2012″.

The report, which is published every year, is one of the most respected and widely read sources of research on employment and salary trends in the region, used extensively by employers as well as working professionals.

Key highlights of the report include: Read more

Conrad Dubai hiring ahead of 2012 opening

The Conrad Dubai on Sheikh Zayed Road is likely to open this summer. Job offers for senior positions are already posted on LinkedIn.

Rudi Jagersbacher, Area President, Middle East and Africa for Hilton Worldwide, said: “I think we’re looking at the end of the second quarter.”

The 550-room hotel was originally scheduled to open in 2011.

On site will be 30 meeting rooms, two ballrooms, three restaurants and bars, a spa and health club with outdoor pool.

The 559-room luxury hotel will be located on a 50,000-square-foot site on the famous Sheikh Zayed Road in the central business district of Dubai. The hotel will be a key competent of a mixed-use development that will also house signature office and retail space.

The Conrad Dubai will be strategically located 20 minutes from the Dubai International Airport, close to the Dubai World Trade Center, International Convention Center, Dubai International Financial Center and nearby a newly built Dubai Metro System Station. The hotel will offer three restaurants, two lounge bars, a destination bar, grand ballroom, meeting rooms, health club, pool, spa and fitness center.

 

Emirates Airline hiring agressive and progressive

UAE national students offered summer Internship opportunities at Emirates Airline

  Most of the Dubai based large companies are aggressively hiring in recent days. Stay tuned and an excellent job opportunity may come your way, if you are not employed yet. Job seekers looking for upgrades and promotions with better packages may also benefit.

Dubai Chronicle has recently tipped its readers about present jobs with the luxury hotel chains, and other large-size Dubai based companies, including Al Futtaim group. Read more

How to enhance your future by selling yourself right

Numerous people find it very difficult to sell themselves as a product or a commodity, and that is because of modesty, and because they do not perceive themselves as products and commodities. We are people, we are individuals, are we not? The response to that question is not as simple as it should be. Read more

Sony to cut nearly 10,000 jobs worldwide

In 2008 Sony axed 16,000 jobs

Sony Corp. plans to reduce its workforce by an estimated 10,000 jobs, or about 6% of its global workforce. The move is a part of new Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai’s restructuring plan, people familiar with the matter commented to the media.

The jobs cuts could run through the two fiscal years until March 2014, although the final timing has not been settled. Read more

50% decline in unemployment in Dubai last year

Number of unemployed people totalled only 5,632

According to a Labor Force Survey (LFS) conducted by «Dubai Statistics»

Unemployment rate declined in the Emirate of Dubai by 50% over last year, reaching an average of 0.4%, up from 0.8% in 2009, according to the findings of Labor Force Survey (LFS) which was carried out by Dubai Statistics Center (DSC) recently. LFS included workers residing in the emirate, excluding employees and residents outside who are estimated at 674 thousand workers, mostly non-Emiratis, i.e. 33.7% of the total of labor force, reaching two million workers. Read more

Plenty of jobs at one of Dubai’s largest private companies

The population of Dubai passed the 2 million mark recently due to an influx of fresh expat workforce. Yes, you have read it right! Despite a reportedly growing number of abandoned cars and occasional reports of companies’ casualties, many of the large Dubai based operators are actively hiring. Jobs for skilled professionals are always running fast.

Last week, Dubai Chronicle tipped its readers about the most-recent jobs available at few of the luxury hotel chains and other International companies in Dubai. Nevertheless, local large operators are also hiring, even  more aggressively. Read more

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