Tanmia, the National Human Resource Development and Employment Authority, will intensify its efforts for Emiratisation at the sixth annual Careers UAE 2006 Exhibition. The event will take place from April 23 to 25 at the Dubai International Exhibition Center under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance and Industry, and the Chairman of Dubai World Trade Center.
Tanmia has partnered in organising the career fair for the fourth consecutive year. It will guide candidates registered with its database, to companies where jobs are available. Careers UAE 2006 primarily aims at encouraging partnership between industry and education in a bid to achieve employment targets set under the Emiratisation programme.
Essa Al Zaabi, Tanmia Office Manager, Dubai said: “The feedback we have received from employers over the past year has been most encouraging. Many private and semi-government companies now seek to recruit UAE Nationals as their first choice of employee. Tanmia has signed a slew of agreements recently with organisations under which training and employment is being provided to more than 1300 Nationals,” Al Zaabi added.
“Private and semi-government companies have also approached Tanmia for training and recruiting another 590 Nationals from our employee database. Careers UAE provides Tanmia an ideal platform through which to effectively encourage interaction between employers, jobseekers and students. It will allow us to promote our job-training and career-enhancing programmes among employers and National jobseekers. We will also introduce registered candidates to the 125-odd employers who will be participating in the fair,” he said.
Besides offering expert advice on the latest Emiratisation issues, Tanmia will also host a series of workshops, debates and contests at Careers UAE 2006 by involving various educational institutions, public and private sector organisations and companies. These will focus on career guidance and development, job opportunities in emerging sectors, recruitment, new skills, employer expectations, labour legislation and job market realities, thus helping UAE Nationals gain the right perspectives and understanding of issues pertaining to employment.
About Tanmia:
Tanmia, the National Human Resource Development & Employment Authority in the UAE, was established by a Presidential decree in November 1999, to address the imbalance in the labour market, due to excessive dependence on expatriate workforce. Tanmia is engaged in a coordinating role, between national job seekers and employers in the private and government sectors, to facilitate increased entry of nationals in the labour market. The responsibilities that rest with the Authority are: to set up the overall policy of the Authority and supervise its implementation, conduct sustained operational and administrative labour market studies and analysis, provide career counseling and guidance to the national work force, follow-up and evaluate employment of nationals in public and private sectors, support small investment enterprises through the establishment of self-employment projects for national human resources and develop programmes for training and qualifying nationals seeking employment, in conformity with the labour market needs.
