LinkedIn, a network of three million registered
professionals in the UAE said its initial mapping results showed that at least
16,000 vacancies were offered to job-seekers in the country in the past year.
Despite the
uncertainty in the global economy, companies in the UAE are still hiring new
staff, with thousands of jobs offered in just one year alone, according to
LinkedIn professional network company.
It’s not clear what percentage of the
advertised jobs has yet to be filled to date, or whether there has been an
increase in hiring this year compared to a year earlier.
"This is the first-time LinkedIn has
carried out a research of this form, so we wouldn't have data to compare with
last year," said Ali Matar, head of LinkedIn talent solutions.
But LinkedIn’s data showed that tech skills are
currently in demand among employers in the UAE. Six of the top ten skills
listed by LinkedIn are in the tech industry. Statistical analysis and data
mining are also topping the rankings.
Among the core skills being sought after,
robotics, data science, 3D printing and Internet of Things are also in demand.
LinkedIn said that candidates holding “big data certification” have more edge
compared to their peers.
“Currently, UAE is number 16 globally in having
the highest number of 3D printing and design talent. Over 60 per cent of 3D
talent professionals work for local UAE companies,” said LinkedIn.Established
local companies appear to be hiring the most in UAE, with more than half (58
per cent) of the UAE-based workforce now employed by such organizations,
including small and medium enterprises and startups. The rest of the employed
professionals in the country are currently working for companies based in the
United States, India and Europe.
Among those who employ the most UAE residents,
those in professional services topped the list, accounting for 16 per cent of
the employees. Companies in the architecture and engineering sector (14 per
cent), as well as financial services (10 per cent), retail and insurance (10
per cent), aero/auto/transport (8 per cent) and oil and energy (8 per cent)
also dominated the list. Industry experts have said that job hiring in the UAE
remained generally weak, with online recruitment activity posting a significant
decline in September.
“Jobseekers in the UAE have been facing
difficulty finding relevant employment opportunities online over the past few
months, as companies reduce their hiring activity in light of the current
economic difficulties being faced,” said Sanjay Modi, managing director at
Monster.com Asia Pacific and Middle East.
Among the businesses they monitored in the UAE,
only those in consumer goods, food, home appliance, textiles, leather, gems and
jewellery recorded an increase in online recruitment.
The hospitality industry registered the biggest
drop in hiring. Online recruitment activity also fell in other sectors like
engineering, construction and real estate, oil and gas, IT and telecom/ISPand
chemicals, plastics, rubber, paints and fertilizer/pesticides industries.
Among the jobseekers, finance and accounting
professionals witnessed the biggest drop in hiring, while job offers also
declined among HR and administration professionals. Postings for customer
service positions, as well as software, hardware and telecom roles also
declined.
The UAE Economic Graph was drawn from
LinkedIn’s huge professional database. The research, done in collaboration with
the Ministry of Education, also seeks to equip students with the information
they need to learn the “skills of the future.”
“The findings from the Economic Graph will aid
students in deciding which qualifications they need in order to make them more
employable.”
In terms of college degrees, civil engineering,
business management and computer science are popular among undergraduates in
the UAE. Among postgraduate students, the most popular ones are industrial
engineering, business management and computer science.
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