Muscat: The Ministry of Manpower (MoMP) is making great efforts to create job opportunities for the national
manpower at the various sectors and activities. It also does its best to
ensure that Omanis are provided with incentives that help them accept
the offered job opportunities, settle at work and turn out to work for the
private sector.
The MoMP also maintain regular communication and
coordination with the private sector organizations to create job
opportunities for the Omani youths at the different fields and activities
by announcing the vacancies at the private sector organizations at the
different media means.
During December 2018, a number of private sector companies offered more than 400 job opportunities for Omanis. The MoMP has already started interviews with 4298 jobseekers who were called for interviews, which will continue up next Thursday.
The move comes
within the efforts made by the Government to create job opportunities
for Omanis at the different fields and specializations.
As part of the cooperation and coordination between the MoMPand the various private sector organizations to create job opportunities
for jobseekers at various specializations, a number of private sector
organizations also today announced more than 60 job opportunities.
Next week, the MoMP will call a number of jobseekers and will
meet a number of private sector companies to create additional fresh
job opportunities.
The statistics of the Public Authority for Manpower Register
(PAMR) pointed out that the number of active jobseekers as of the end
of November 2018 stood at 45,711 most of them between 25 to 29-
year-old, reaching (18,467).
In terms of education qualifications, the number of jobseekers below the general education diploma stood at 5204, compared to 12,782 at the level of general education diploma and equivalent, 8625 holders of university diploma level, 18,981 at the university level, 113 holders of master and 6 at the PhD level.
The MoMP is making great efforts to announce the available job opportunities at the private sector and invite jobseekers for interviews, in cooperation with the relevant organizations. The MoMP also cooperates with the Public Authority for Manpower Register in publishing weekly supplements about job opportunities.
As of 26 December this year, 47 supplements were published - 7099 job opportunities. As of 27 December this year, the MoMP also published 45 supplements for interviews. It also forwarded 114,709 invitations for interviews for 12,847 job opportunities. --ONA
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