Tag: United Arab Emirates

Officials in the United Arab Emirates anticipate that 40% of jobs present in the workplace today will disappear in the next 10 years. With this in mind, plans to narrow the skills gap in the United Arab Emirates require careful workforce planning and reforms to education. A rise in business confidence is due to the United Arab Emirates’ economic...

The United Arab Emirates is heavily reliant on a migrant workforce of an estimated eight million workers, or roughly 80% of the nation’s population. After recognizing this dependence on migrant workers, the market is actively working to improve conditions for national labor. A proposed new law will give national workers 30 days of paid vacation a year, one day...

Oil companies are eliminating more jobs citing continued challenging market conditions for deep-water developments. Although some of the most recent cuts reported are from operations based in both the United States and Angola, it is the Saudi Arabian migrant workers who are most adversely affected by the oil price slump in the Middle East. The impact is felt across...

In March of this year, online postings for job vacancies in the banking and finance industry rose by 38% year-over-year in the United Arab Emirates. A recent study suggests that highly qualified finance workers are now finding themselves in control of the recruitment process as the demand for talent exceeds the number of available workers with adequate skills. Recruiting...

The population of Abu Dhabi is on the rise, with an average annual growth rate of 7.7 percent. This population growth was primarily due to migration as the rate of the natural increase of Abu Dhabi’s population only contributed to one-sixth of population growth, while emigration to the country made up the other five-sixths of growth. Likewise, the population...