There is a new report that points to encouraging news from the job market in Dubai. We look at other news about the Dubai job market and at examples of what makes this UAE city among the most attractive for overseas job seekers
According to a new report, there has been an uptick in the number of jobs available in Dubai in the past year or so. Almost 50,000 new jobs were created by Dubai based employers over a 9 month period in the year 2018.
While the nine-month period from January to September 2017 showed a 0.7% job growth, that figure has more than doubled in the same period of 2018. January to September 2018 showed a 1.8 % increase in the number of jobs created.
The growth rate of jobs in the real estate sector – which accounts for approximately one-third of the UAE workforce – has been significant. As such job seekers are most likely to find employment in this sector. Requirements for building new hotels, participant countries building their pavilions and infrastructure projects such as roads ahead of the World Expo, are likely to create this spurt.
Emirates Airline is looking for new members to join their cabin crew team and has planned a cabin crew recruitment open day on Saturday, 16th February, 8 AM in the Marriot hotel in York, UK. The airline expansion and the addition of new routes to the network have created new job opportunities here as well. Employment packages are attractive; including free accommodation, tax-free income, free transport to and from work, dental and medical cover, concessional travel for family and other lifestyle benefits.
Eduardo Almeda Jr. a 32-year-old from the Philippines left an established life in his home country to come to the UAE. He got a job as an assistant event manager and after being hired by Azizi Developments, his career went from strength to strength. He believes that the job opportunities he found in the UAE allowed him to be creative and as such are more rewarding.
55-year-old Dhananjay Datar famously went to school barefoot; hailing from a family that struggled to have three meals a day at one point. He owes his success to the UAE, and believes that his meteoric rise to success began when he came to the UAE at age 20. Today the spice king is able to afford a bespoke 2 million dollar Rolls Royce Phantom. His company deals in over 9,000 products and posted a Dh750 million turnover in 2018. If Datar's personal net worth is about Dh1.26 billion, he owes it in large part to the opportunities that he discovered in Dubai.
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